EXPANDING PRESCRIBING POWERS FOR NURSES IN THE UK AND CANADA
June 1st, 2012
BY KITTY SO, IN OTTAWA
BRITISH nurses are not alone in receiving wider prescribing powers that would include special classes of government regulated drugs, considered prone to greater potential for abuse: Canadian nurses are also gaining similar responsibilities.
The UK government changed legislation in April, to expand the prescribing and drug mixing powers of pharmacists and nurses to cover 'controlled drugs,' which the government falling under two legislations: the Medicines Act, managed by the UK Department of Health, and the Misuse of Drugs Act, which is ...
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