Independent and Supplementary Prescribing
Provider: Bournemouth University
Course Leader: Matt Hartwell
This course is suitable for: This training is aimed at Nurses, Midwives, and Allied health professionals.
Course information:
This clinically-focused unit has been developed in response to the need to enhance the assessment skills of healthcare professionals across the health and social care sector. The unit offers the opportunity for healthcare professionals to enhance their skills in the assessment of adult patients and further develop their knowledge in the relevant pathophysiology applied to stages of the assessment. As a result this will enable healthcare professionals to be able to confidently undertake a consultation of a presenting patient, perform an assessment utilising enhanced skills, identify any relevant red flags through their assessment, interpret the findings of their assessment and consider the relevant escalation and action plans, specific to the sector in which they are based.
Learning Outcomes:
- Critically Assess and contextualise the patient’s medical, social and medication history, utilising physical examination skills to identify differential diagnoses
- Appraise the pathophysiological implications of both pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches across the lifespan
- Evaluate the ability to reach a shared decision with the service user/carer about the treatment options available
- Synthesise knowledge of drug actions in prescribing practice utilising national frameworks and guidance
- Provide a critical analysis of the relevant legislation to the practice of prescribing maintaining accurate and current records
- Prescribe safely, appropriately and cost effectively, and appraise justification for treatment, monitoring and review responses to therapy and modify as required
- Practice within a multidisciplinary team and a framework of professional accountability and responsibility critically reflecting on their own limitations and seeking guidance as appropriate
- Demonstrate the ability to calculate drug doses and prescribing regimes within own area of practice
