Non Medical Prescribing Update

This 1 day update course is designed for all non-medical prescribers to develop and maintain safe and effective prescribing practice. You will explore contemporaneous issues and challenges relating to prescribing practice and evaluate your individual prescribing scope of competence.

Suitable for anyone with a non-medical prescribing qualification.

Content

• What's new in non-medical prescribing?

• Communication, consultation & decision making

• Prescribing safety

• Antimicrobial prescribing

• Polypharmacy, co-morbidity and frailty

• Prescribing dilemmas a case study approach

Aims and outcomes

• Develop knowledge and critical understanding of current issues in non-medical prescribing

• Raise awareness of problems pertinent to prescribing practice

• Refresh knowledge of antimicrobial guardianship

• Be able to use the prescribing competency framework to evaluate your own prescribing scope of practice

Cost

£170

How to apply for funding and apply for this course

Please complete the MS Form available at the following link: HWE Training Hub Funding Request Form (office.com)

The Training Hub will review and approve the course funding - however, it is your responsibility to book your place on the course you wish to attend. We will review and respond to applications in order of the course date (soonest courses first) and date received. If you have any questions, please contact us at hwetraininghub@nhs.net.

Once the Training Hub has approved your funding request, we will contact you with instructions on how to book your place on the course. When you have booked, please send us your booking confirmation to complete the process. Your booking confirmation must be received by the Training Hub within 1 week of your funding approval. If your booking confirmation is not received within a week of your request for funding being approved, your approval will no longer be valid and you will need to complete a new funding request form, via the MS Forms link. We will notify you if we have withdrawn your funding request.

(The short timeline is due to courses frequently becoming unavailable due to popularity.)

Course booking link

Non Medical Prescribing Update | M&K Update (mkupdate.co.uk)