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As nurse prescribing roles continue to expand across acute, community, primary care, mental health and specialist services, maintaining competence in clinical pharmacology, medicines optimisation and prescribing safety is essential. Nurses are increasingly prescribing for people with complex comorbidity, frailty, polypharmacy, mental health needs and long-term conditions, often in fast-moving clinical environments where safe prescribing decisions have a direct impact on patient outcomes.
NHS England has highlighted the role of medication safety management in saving lives, reducing harm, reducing over-prescribing and addressing problematic polypharmacy. The NMC also recognises the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Competency Framework for all Prescribers as the standard for safe and effective prescribing practice for nurse prescribers on its register.
This conference provides a practical Clinical Pharmacology Update for Nurse Prescribers, with a focus on applying pharmacology to safe, evidence-based prescribing decision-making in nursing practice. The conference will provide a series of extended focus sessions, combined with practical interactive exercises, to develop competence and confidence in prescribing decisions, understanding drug interactions, managing comorbidity, recognising red flags and improving safety in prescribing.
The programme will support nurse prescribers to update their knowledge of common drug interactions, high-risk medicines and high-risk patient groups. Case studies will focus on managing comorbidity, frailty in older people, mental health medicines, medication safety, polypharmacy, deprescribing and personalised prescribing. The conference will also explore current developments in medicines optimisation, structured medication reviews, pharmacogenomics, shared decision-making and prescribing within scope of practice.
This conference will enable you to:
Network with colleagues who are working to improve Nurse Prescribing Practice
Update your clinical pharmacology knowledge and apply pharmacology to prescribing decision making
Ensure you are aware of common drug interactions, and implications for prescribing
Learn from experienced nurse prescribing to develop strategies for managing common and rare co-morbidites
Engage in interactive case study based discussions
Improve your knowledge of common drug interactions, and high risk medications and patient groups
Develop your skills and confidence in nurse prescribing
Explore the influence of lifestyle factors and alternative medicines on prescribing decision making
Understand how you can improve prescribing and safety in frail older people
Identify key strategies for managing patients on common mental health medications
Ensure you are up to date with the latest evidence based practice
Understand the developing role of Pharmacogenomics in Personalised Prescribing
Reflect on prescribing within your scope of practice and identifying red flags
Self assess and reflect on your own practice
Supports CPD professional development and acts as revalidation evidence. This course provides 5 Hrs training for CPD subject to peer group approval for revalidation purposes
