Nurse Prescribing From the Global Vantage Point: The Intersection Between Role and Policy

Policy, Politics & Nursing Practice
Elissa Ladd, Madrean Schober

Abstract

Nurses around the world are increasingly prescribing and managing pharmaceutical agents. Prescribing by nurses is currently based on varying nursing roles, depending on national and regional norms and practices. Prescribing occurs within the advance practice, advanced level, and task-sharing roles, depending on the country. It is evolving both within and outside of traditional regulatory frameworks. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to describe the nurse prescribing globally among various nursing roles that support and facilitate the practice. We gathered practice, statutory, and regulatory information from gray and peer-reviewed literature, Google search and Google scholar, government websites, PubMed, and CINAHL electronic databases. In contrast to previous global policy reviews that focus primarily on high-income nations, our findings suggest that nurse prescribing occurs extensively in all six continents. Nurse prescribing within the context of advanced practice nursing occurs mostly in high-income countries. However, the predominant model of nurse prescribing from the global context occurs within the advanced level role by postbasic or postprofessional nurses. Additional nurse prescribing occurs through less formal...Continue Reading

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