The variety and number of non-medical practitioners identified for prescribing activity is growing rapidly.  Across the country, universities have validated prescribing programmes designed for generic health care practice with a distance-learning component.

Towards Prescribing Practice offers readers a comprehensive guide to the principles and practice of prescribing. The subject matter relates to the government content standards for study programmes and takes its cue from recent research in prescribing and patient care in practice. This book embraces the perennial core principles of prescribing practice, management and leadership.

Content is organised to facilitate progressive learning, with space allocated in each chapter to practice application through discussion and exercises. The early inclusion of a section on patient-centred planning and concordance enables the reader to assimilate new knowledge within an individualised care approach. The final three chapters are written from different clinical perspectives: mental health, palliative care and emergency care, providing assistance to specific areas of prescribing practice. The book includes:

• Colour illustrations to help the reader visualise pharmacological processes.

• Evidence-based and fully referenced chapters.
• Figures to illustrate theoretical frameworks.
• Case vignettes to punctuate the text, providing a practicum in which readers can reflect upon scenarios in clinical practice.
• Tables to provide learning exercises to help readers practise the roles of prescribing, such as cross-referencing the joint formulary.
• Expert clinical perspectives in key areas. 

Undergraduate prescribing students, Nurses, Midwives, Pharmacists, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Paramedics and Radiographers are among the practitioners who will find this book an invaluable resource.