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The Implementation Process of Nurse Prescribing in Poland – A Descriptive Study

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  • Agnieszka Zimmermann

    (Department of Medical and Pharmaceutical Law, Faculty of Health Sciences with Institute of Maritime and Tropical Medicine, Medical University of Gdańsk, 80-210 Gdańsk, Poland)

  • Ewa Cieplikiewicz

    (Department of Medical and Pharmaceutical Law, Faculty of Health Sciences with Institute of Maritime and Tropical Medicine, Medical University of Gdańsk, 80-210 Gdańsk, Poland)

  • Piotr Wąż

    (Department of Nuclear Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences with Institute of Maritime and Tropical Medicine, Medical University of Gdańsk, 80-210 Gdańsk, Poland)

  • Aleksandra Gaworska-Krzemińska

    (Department of Nursing Management, Faculty of Health Sciences with Institute of Maritime and Tropical Medicine, Medical University of Gdańsk, 80-210 Gdańsk, Poland)

  • Paweł Olczyk

    (Department of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Diagnostics, School of Pharmacy and Division of Laboratory Medicine in Sosnowiec, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, 41-200 Katowice, Poland)

Abstract

The study aimed to investigate the situation of nurse prescribing, introduced in Poland in 2016, by analyzing the opinions of nurses, expected to be influential on nurses’ actual practices, in response to legislative change to enable nurses to prescribe and comparing this with actual nurse prescribing behaviours during the early years of the legislation. The paper fills a knowledge gap and provides baseline data analysis for subsequent research. Nurses’ opinions were collected during the period they were preparing themselves for prescribing. That data was compared with data on the character and extent of nurses’ actual prescribing practices over the first two years of implementation. The study showed the number of nurse prescriptions increased. Comparing the first and second years of nurse prescribing, the number of nurse independent prescriptions more than doubled. Over the same period, the number of nurse supplementary prescriptions increased almost six-fold. The implementation of nurse prescribing has increased the scope of nursing care, especially in the treatment of the infections, pain and chronic conditions in the elderly.

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  • Agnieszka Zimmermann & Ewa Cieplikiewicz & Piotr Wąż & Aleksandra Gaworska-Krzemińska & Paweł Olczyk, 2020. "The Implementation Process of Nurse Prescribing in Poland – A Descriptive Study," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(7), pages 1-18, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:17:y:2020:i:7:p:2417-:d:340510
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    1. Kinga Harpula & Anna Bartosiewicz, 2022. "Factors Influencing Nurses’ Opinions on the Implementation of Nursing Advice in Poland," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(13), pages 1-9, June.

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