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Advanced Practice
Education

Non-medical prescribing students: assessment and supervision of learning in practice for nurses and midwives

14 October 2021
Advanced Clinical Practice
02 October 2021
Volume 30 · Issue 18

The number of nurse prescribers has grown rapidly since the introduction of legislation enabling the development of the role (Smith et al, 2014) and over the subsequent years government policy directives have continued to support the development of the nurse prescriber role (Scottish Government, 2017a; 2017b; Health Education England (HEE), 2017; NHS Education for Scotland (NES), 2018).

Nurse prescribing is seen as an advanced nurse role (International Council of Nurses (ICN), 2020) and is a core requirement for advanced nurse practice (Scottish Government, 2017b; Royal College of Nursing, 2018; ICN, 2020). This article reflects on the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) (2018a; 2018b) changes to standards for the supervision and assessment of student nurse and midwife non-medical prescribers.

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