'It's showed me the skills that he has': Pharmacists' and mentors' views on pharmacist supplementary prescribing

International Journal of Pharmacy Practice

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 29-36

  Lloyd, Fran ^a   Parsons, Carole ^b   Hughes, Carmel M ^b,c  

^a Northern Ireland Centre for Pharmacy Learning and Development   (United Kingdom)

^b School of Pharmacy   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mentor; Pharmacist; Qualitative evaluation; Supplementary prescribing; Views

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIO RECORDING; CHRONIC DISEASE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN RELATION; INTERVIEW; IRELAND; OCCUPATION; ORGANIZATION; PATIENT CARE; PERCEPTION; PHARMACIST; PHYSICIAN; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SKILL; TEACHER; TENSION; TRAINING; WORKLOAD;

EID: 77949591087     PISSN: 09617671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1211/ijpp.18.01.0006     Document Type: Article

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