In the United Kingdom, the education for nurse prescribing is delivered within a Higher Education Institution (HEI). Although prescribing courses are regularly evaluated, there has been little ...

Nurse practitioners are just as good as primary care doctors at avoiding potentially harmful prescriptions for older patients -- but both need to do better, a large, new study suggests. Nurse ...

The move will allow registered nurses to take part in new training programs that will qualify them to prescribe medications and is designed to address critical shortages across the healthcare sector.

Australia already has a category of nurse specialists who can prescribe some medicines – nurse practitioners. Burlingham/Shutterstock We started the week with a new proposal by the Grattan Institute ...