Activity 13.2: Reflective practice
In a group or as an individual identify those practitioners who you have worked with who are prescribers and identity the context in which they are able to prescribe medicines.
Independent prescribers
- doctors
- dentists
- nurse independent prescribers
- pharmacist independent prescribers
- optometrist independent prescribers
- physiotherapists
- podiatrists
- therapeutic radiologists
Supplementary prescribers
- nurses/midwives
- pharmacists
- diagnostic radiographers
- therapeutic radiographers
- optometrists
- dietitians
More professions are being considered including paramedics.