Increased Accessibility to Primary Healthcare Due to Nurse Prescribing of Medicines.

ABSTRACT: Since January 2016, nurses and midwives in Poland have had the right, with some restrictions, to prescribe medicines. Consequently, Polish patients received the same opportunity as in other countries worldwide: easier access to certain health services, i.e., medical prescribing. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of structural changes which increased the nurses' competences on the accessibility to prescription visits for patients receiving primary healthcare on the example of Medical and Diagnostic Centre (MDC), and to discuss the general trend of legal changes in nursing profession regulations. We performed a detailed analysis of the data on the MDC patient population in Siedlce who received at least one prescription written by a general practitioner and/or a nurse/midwife in

SUBMITTER: Kilanska D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8751194 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature