In this new era of healthcare, the importance of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) cannot be underestimated. Non-Medical Prescribers have a responsibility to themselves, their employer and their patients to keep up-to-date with developments in this fast-moving area of healthcare. This book looks at the current context of CPD in this area and provides guidance for facilitation. The book is divided into three clear sections. The first looks at general principles of CPD and considers overarching and organisational issues such as clinical governance. The second section looks at specific…mehr
In this new era of healthcare, the importance of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) cannot be underestimated. Non-Medical Prescribers have a responsibility to themselves, their employer and their patients to keep up-to-date with developments in this fast-moving area of healthcare. This book looks at the current context of CPD in this area and provides guidance for facilitation. The book is divided into three clear sections. The first looks at general principles of CPD and considers overarching and organisational issues such as clinical governance. The second section looks at specific approaches adopted by individuals/trusts to facilitate CPD, for example e-learning and how to keep up-to-date with pharmacology. The final section is a resource section, which includes a number of usable documents relating to each chapter that identify further resources and include practical ideas, tools and objects. * Includes legal and professional frameworks * Tied in closely with the latest government guidelines and standards, including guidance from the NMC as well as the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSBG) * Includes contributions from health professionals from a variety of backgrounds * Suitable for Non-Medical Prescribers, as well as their managers, practice managers and prescribing leads responsible for providing CPD
Marion Waite is Senior Lecturer in the School of Health & Social Care, Oxford Brookes University, where she leads the Non-Medical Prescribing Course. She is also a visiting diabetes specialist nurse at a GP practice and a nurse prescriber. Jan Keenan is Consultant Nurse in Cardiac Medicine at Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust. She is the Organisational CPD lead and Nursing Lead for non-medical prescribing, and a nurse prescriber.
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Section One: General principles of continuing professional development for non-medical prescribers.
Chapter 1 Keeping up-to-date with legal and professional frameworks for non-medical prescribing.
Chapter 2 Prescribing Practice from the Employer's Perspective: The Rationale for CPD within non-medical prescribing.
Chapter 3 Writing and Maintaining a Non Medical Prescribing Policy for your Organisation.
Chapter 4 Organising continuing professional development for non-medical prescribers at a regional level.
Section Two: Specific approaches to offering continuing professional development for non-medical prescribers.
Chapter 5 Using e-learning to support continuing professional development for non-medical prescribers.
Chapter 6 Action Learning and Learning Sets.
Chapter 7 Keeping up-to-date with pharmacology.
Chapter 8 Organising continuing professional development for non-medical prescribers in a general practice setting.
Chapter 9 Organising and running a journal club for non-medical prescribers.
Section Three: Key Resources and Practice Examples for Non-Medical Prescribers.
Appendix 1 1:1 Useful websites.
1:2 Example job description illustrating the incorporation of non-medical prescribing as a key component of the role.
1:3 Answers to 'Test your knowledge about the law as it applies to non-medical prescribing' Quiz.
Appendix 2 2:1 Useful websites.
2:2 Example of a clinical governance audit tool for a health care organisation to support non-medical prescribing.
Appendix 3 3:1 Useful web sites.
3:2 Example non-medical prescribing policy for a healthcare organisation.
Appendix 4 4:1 Useful websites.
4:2 How to organise group work for a non-medical prescribing CPD event.
4:3 How to facilitate a networking session for a non-medical prescribing CPD event.
Appendix 5 5:1 Useful websites.
5:2 JISC Effective e-learning planner.
Appendix 6 6:1 Making the Connections - Using Healthcare Professionals as Prescribers to Deliver Organisational Improvements - Department of Health.
6:2 Example of case study presented at an action learning set.
Appendix 7 7:1 Useful web sites.
7:2 Answers to pharmacology self-test multi-choice questions.
Appendix 8 8:1 'Prescribing points' Two examples of communication of prescribing issues in a primary care setting.
Appendix 9 9:1 Example of how to use PICO to build a search strategy.