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Why are nurses unable to prescribe? Nurse practitioners (mid-senior nurses) have been able to prescribe a limited set of drugs in the UK for quite some time now
by albertgoeswoof 9y ago
Why are nurses unable to prescribe? Nurse practitioners (mid-senior nurses) have been able to prescribe a limited set of drugs in the UK for quite some time now, quite successfully.
- RandallBrown 9y agoNurse practitioners can prescribe in the US as well.
- mljoe 9y agoThis right. In fact CVS MinuteClinics are usually manned by nurse practitioners. They can do many things typically associated with internal/family medicine.
- Lendal 9y agoAnd it takes years of education and training to become a nurse. Why do people think that nurses shouldn't be able to prescribe medications? Is it because of the gender they're traditionally associated with?
- jeffreyrogers 9y agoNo. And no one made that claim.
- upvotinglurker 9y agohristov did, at the top of this thread ("The idea of nurses prescribing pills is very bad") https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15757283 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15757283
- hristov 9y agoBecause in order to prescribe you need to be able to make a diagnosis and to make a diagnosis you need the full knowledge of a competent doctor.