| Topics chosen for the
bulletins were in line with the main areas of the Nurse Prescribers' Formulary (see
below). Training resource packs are to be centred around each bulletin exploring the main
issues in more depth. These will provide tutors with a framework for teaching, topics for
individual consideration and group discussion, presentation and handout materials and
supporting literature. Prescribing summary
fact sheets will focus on practical prescribing and patient counselling information for
certain drugs, therapeutic groups of dressings/appliances, and specific prescribing issues
in certain conditions, for example, pregnancy.
By the end of March 1999, all nurses who had been trained to
prescribe during pilot site projects or during 1998/99 had been sent the first bulletin
with a ring binder for storage. In addition, project leads in health authorities and
trusts had received the same materials for onward distribution to nurses due to receive
training during 1999/2000.
The second bulletin was also completed and ready for distribution, with the third and
fourth bulletins and first three resource packs in development. All materials are to be
completed by October 1999. |
