Independent Prescribing: Practical Prescribing
February 3, 2010 by admin
Am I able to administer a vaccine using a Patient Specific Direction (PSD) as opposed to a Patient Group Direction (PGD)? My local pharmacist told me that this is possible, and that details about the medicine dose, do not need to be included in the PSD but can be provided verbally. Is this correct?
To read the answer to this question, click here.
Independent Nurse: Practical Prescribing
June 23, 2009 by admin
Q: Some of the vaccines that we administer in our practice, such as yellow fever and meningitis, are licensed for use in this country. However, others, including Japanese encephalits and tick-born encephalitis, are not licensed in the UK. Can a patient group direction (PGD) be used to administer private vavccines? As yellow fever and meningitis are licensed, can a patient specific direction (PSD) be authorised by a nurse prescriber for private patients?
To read the reponse to this question, click here.
Categories
Recent Posts
- Oral penicillin: children’s dosage recommendations
- RCN indemnity changes - further reactions
- No news is bad news on CD changes
- Where is the evidence base: NMP in primary care?
- Medicines for Children website launched
- NRLS to transfer to NHS Trust
- RCN indemnity changes
- Medicines legislation to be consolidated
- ANP annual conference: diversity, change and standards
- CD changes promised by end of October
Tags
- ANP ANP conference Carey N CD children CKS Clinical Knowledge Summaries consultation controlled drugs COPD cosmetic treatments Courtenay Courtenay M CPD dermatology DH diabetes district nurse prescriber generic substitution Home Office independent prescribers Matt Griffiths mental health MeReC MHRA Misuse of Drugs mixing medicines National Prescribing Centre NICE NMC non-medical prescribing NPC NPF NPSA Nurse prescribing Patient Group Directions PGD PGDs Prescribing RCN Royal Pharmaceutical Society Stenner Stenner K supplementary prescribers unlicensed medicines
