Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Non-Medical Prescribing: An Overview
- 2 Non-Medical Prescribing in a Multidisciplinary Team Context
- 3 Consultation Skills and Decision Making
- 4 Legal Aspects of Independent and Supplementary Prescribing
- 5 Ethical Issues in Independent and Supplementary Prescribing
- 6 Psychology and Sociology of Prescribing
- 7 Applied Pharmacology
- 8 Monitoring Skills
- 9 Promoting Concordance in Prescribing Interactions
- 10 Evidence-Based Prescribing
- 11 Extended/Supplementary Prescribing: A Public Health Perspective
- 12 Calculation Skills
- 13 Prescribing in Practice: How It Works
- 14 Minimising the Risk of Prescribing Error
- 15 Education and Training to Become a Prescriber
- 16 Antimicrobial Prescribing
- Index
11 - Extended/Supplementary Prescribing: A Public Health Perspective
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2021
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Non-Medical Prescribing: An Overview
- 2 Non-Medical Prescribing in a Multidisciplinary Team Context
- 3 Consultation Skills and Decision Making
- 4 Legal Aspects of Independent and Supplementary Prescribing
- 5 Ethical Issues in Independent and Supplementary Prescribing
- 6 Psychology and Sociology of Prescribing
- 7 Applied Pharmacology
- 8 Monitoring Skills
- 9 Promoting Concordance in Prescribing Interactions
- 10 Evidence-Based Prescribing
- 11 Extended/Supplementary Prescribing: A Public Health Perspective
- 12 Calculation Skills
- 13 Prescribing in Practice: How It Works
- 14 Minimising the Risk of Prescribing Error
- 15 Education and Training to Become a Prescriber
- 16 Antimicrobial Prescribing
- Index
Summary
Public health practice is focused on enhancing the health of the entire population. A key public health concern around prescribing concerns the rapid rise in antimicrobial resistance, including resistance to antimicrobials of last resort. The situation has even been described as an ‘apocalypse’. Non-medical prescribers have a key role to play in reducing or preventing antimicrobial resistance and there is ample evidence that they are having a positive impact with regard to antimicrobial stewardship programs in various healthcare and community settings. They also have important contributions to make to preventing ill health in the first place, especially through vaccination programs
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- Independent and Supplementary PrescribingAn Essential Guide, pp. 200 - 223Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022