Prescribing for practice

This subject addresses the application of pharmacokinetics and dynamics to clinical practice and therapeutic planning across the life span. Students will be introduced to the regulation of medications and prescribing and the principles of quality use of medicines and medication safety. Students will develop their assessment and clinical decision-making skills to inform therapeutic management decisions within their scope of practice. This knowledge will be used to explore commonly used approaches to managing national health priority problems such as acute pain, mood disorders, cardiac, respiratory and metabolic diseases and infection and determine the role of the nurse prescriber. The aim is to prepare nurses for safe and effective delegated prescribing in accordance with jurisdictional legislative, professional regulation, workplace governance frameworks and professional and ethical standards.