The educational programme aims:

• To prepare nurses, midwives, specialist community public health nurses and pharmacists to prescribe safely, appropriately and cost effectively as independent and supplementary prescribers OR
• To prepare allied health professionals to prescribe safely, appropriately and cost effectively as supplementary prescribers AND
• To provide an opportunity for inter-professional students to debate, analyse and synthesise key issues within safe prescribing practice and it's contribution to health care

Admission to the module is dependent on the following criteria:

• 3 years qualified for nurses & AHPs, 2 years for pharmacists with professional registration
• A UK Honours Degree or an academic or professional qualification approved by the Senate as equivalent in breadth and depth to a UK Honours Degree (Anglia Ruskin Academic Regulations, Version 3.0, July 2006)
• A clinical need for prescribing
• Sufficient knowledge of the practice area in which prescribing will take place
• A current Enhanced Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) check has been undertaken

Nurses and midwives should be assessed by their employer as competent at history taking, assessment and diagnosis, or if not should concurrently undertake a module to meet this requirement. Applicants must be able to demonstrate appropriate numeric skills. The student should identify a designated medical supervisor who meets the Department of Health (2006) requirements, prior to commencement of the programme and should be allocated 78 hours of clinical supervision time (90 hours for a pharmacist).

Outline content

• Consultation, decision-making and theory, including referral
• Assessment and decision- making for special risk groups including children, the elderly, pregnancy and breast feeding
• Influences on and psychology of prescribing
• Prescribing in a team context
• Clinical pharmacology, including the effects of co-morbidity
• Evidence based practice and clinical governance in relation to non medical prescribing
• Legal, policy and ethical aspects
• Professional accountability and responsibility
• Prescribing in the public health context

Chelmsford & Peterborough

Course 1 - 5 September 2013 to 23 January 2014
Course dates: 5, 12,19, 26 September 2013, 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 October 2013, 7, 14, 21, 28 November 2013,
5, 12, 19 December 2013 and 9, 16 and 23 January 2014

Chelmsford & Fulbourn

Course 2 - 23 January to 12 June 2014
Course dates: 23, 30 January 2014, 6, 13, 20, 27 February 2014, 6, 13, 20, 27 March 2014, 3, 10 April 2014,
1, 8, 15, 22, 29 May 2014 and 5 and 12 June 2014

Teaching days and times are for guidance only and are subject to change.

For further information contact:

Amanda Armstrong (Chelmsford)
Tel: 0845 196 4822
Email: amanda.armstrong@anglia.ac.uk

Diane Shearer (Fulbourn and Peterborough)
Tel: 0845 196 5566
Email: diane.shearer@anglia.ac.uk

Rana Ahmed (Contracts Officer)
Tel: 0845 196 4614
Email: rana.ahmed@anglia.ac.uk

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