Today's chair: Professor Angela Alexander MBE
Professor Emerita School of Pharmacy, University of Reading Chair Working Party, The Competency Framework for Designated Prescribing Practitioners (DPP), Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
Angela opens the day with a national update covering:
• prescribing for pain: current issues
• supporting patients through pain management during and beyond Covid-19
Speaking first are: Sally Jarmain and Matt Lund who discuss Improving Prescribing Practice & Competence: Using the national prescribing competency framework
Non-Medical Prescribing Lead Physiotherapist Independent Prescriber and Pain Team Lead Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust
The session covers:
• key messages from the competency framework and what has changed
• using the framework throughout the prescribing journey
• using the framework as part of the revalidation process
• relating the framework to prescribing governance
• demonstrating the framework within a patient case study
• the new competency framework for designated prescribing practitioners
• governance and accountability for non medical prescribing for pain
- Sally Jarmain Biography 0.04 MBDOCXfile
- Matt Lund Biography 0.01 MBDOCXfile
- Presentation Slides 1.52 MBPPTXfile
Liz Moir Lead Nurse, Pain Services Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust presents a session on: Nurse prescribing for in-patient acute pain
The session covers:
• nurse prescribing for in-patient pain: the practicalities
• improving nurse prescribing practice on the wards
• non medical prescribing as part of the ward round
• developing advanced roles around nurse prescribing
• prescribing for Covid-19 symptoms
• coaching and mentoring for current and aspiring nurse prescribers