Requisites: Pre-requisite: Meets the admission requirements stated in the Nursing and Midwifery Council (2018) Standards for Prescribing programmes, OR meets the requirements stated in the Allied Health Professions Federation (2018) Outline Curriculum Framework for Education Programmes AND Admission requirements from HCPC (2019) standards for prescribing programmes.

In this module, you, as a health professional, will cover the following key components which align directly to the RPS competencies (2021) for all prescribers. The competencies are :- consultation and health Assessment; review and consider pharmacological and non-pharmacological options; shared decision making; wider influences of prescribing practice; safe prescribing practice; adverse event reporting and recording; health literacy; ethical and legal aspects to prescribing practice within a practice context; Policy and clinical governance of prescribing; multi-professional team decision making; professional accountability and responsibility; public health and well-being.

Upon completion of this module you will be able to

LO1: Critically discuss the application of consultation models within clinical scenarios to demonstrate safe, professional and cost effective prescribing.

LO2: Critically analyse the legislation and research evidence as it applies to prescribing practice.

LO3: Evaluate the relationship between the patient/carer and the multiprofessional team involved in decision making for prescribing, supplying and administering medicines in relation to person-centred care.

LO4: Debate the wider influences on prescribing decisions in relation to one’s own sphere of practice.

LO5: Synthesise knowledge of pharmacology related to medications in one's own prescribing practice.

LO6: Appraise independent and supplementary prescribing in the context of one’s own prescribing practice.