Mental health nurse prescribing: A difficult pill to swallow?

Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 543-553

  Snowden, A ^a   Martin, C R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Competence; Concordance; Education; Medicine management; Prescribing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; METHODOLOGY; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING; PRESCRIPTION; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; NURSE'S ROLE; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING;

EID: 77954520410     PISSN: 13510126     EISSN: 13652850     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2850.2010.01561.x     Document Type: Article

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