How Swedish nurses are tackling nurse prescribing
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Sweden has a decentralised health care system, with 23 county councils and three municipalities being responsible for providing all primary health care services. Within this system, district nurses with post-graduate qualifications are permitted to prescribe from a list of 230 brands of products for 60 specific indications. There are a number of safeguards, including not permitting certain drugs to be prescribed for children and specifying additional training. This structure has made prescribing nurses confident about their role.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1995
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After dark..
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Long working hours, social isolation and early hospital discharges have placed a greater stress on UK health trusts to provide 24-hour community nursing in many parts of the country. The government is backing the development of 24-hour community nursing through the use of local initiatives aimed at increasing night-time cover. One of the most important initiatives is the introduction of a 24-hour medical helpline called NHS Direct which allows the public access to medical advice.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1999
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New ideas, strangely familiar
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Modern technology dictates the speed at which medicine and nursing practises evolve and it should not be seen as detrimental to the advances made in previous times. The nursing profession during the 1960s and 1970s was often viewed as the ideal way to practise but rarely was it viewed by today's standards, taking into account developments in technology which have vastly improved skills in diagnosis, treatments and outcome practices.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1999
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