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Non-Medical Prescribing Update

24 September 2019 @ 9:00 am - 12:30 pm

Tuesday 24th September 2019
This is a morning event.

Times: 09:00 – 12:30

08:45 – 09:00 coffee and registration – 09:00 – 12:30 training

Speakers

Ms Beverley Bostock

Content
  • Prescribing practice – what’s new?
  • Medico-legal issues
  • Indemnity
  • Guidance for prescribers
  • Formularies
  • Recognising and reporting ADRs
  • Prescribing in special cases: elderly, children and renal impairment
  • Includes how pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics play their part
  • Antibiotics: use and misuse
  • Case studies: closing the gap from theory to reality
  • Group work on a range of prescribing conundrums
Trainer

Beverley Bostock RGN, BSc, MSc, Nurse Practitioner & Clinical Lead, Education for Health, Warwick

Beverley has an enviable mix of theory and practice when it comes to her role as both health care professional and clinical lecturer. She is a Nurse Practitioner/Prescriber working in a rural practice in the Cotswolds and also works as a Clinical Lecturer at Education for Health, where she is the clinical lead for COPD, diabetes, atrial fibrillation, stroke, hypertension and. smoking cessation. She is a visiting lecturer on the MSc in preventive cardiology at Imperial College London.

Beverley writes extensively for the nursing press and sits on several editorial boards. She has a keen interest in the patients’ experience of health care and her dissertation for her MSc examined the concept of what patients themselves want from a consultation, comparing this to the way in which health care is currently delivered in general practice.

Location

Hamworthy Club,

Canford Magna,

Wimborne,

BH21 3AP

Main contact

Name: Giselle Thornton

Email: Giselle.thornton@wessexlmcs.org.uk

Phone: 023 8025 3874

If you have any communication or mobility needs that the event organisers need to be aware of please contact them in advance of the course to let them know.

 

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