EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION FOR NURSE INDEPENDENT PRESCRIBERS
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC 2006) has set out standards for the educational preparation of nurses for prescribing: Standards of Proficiency for nurse and midwife prescribers. London: NMC and will only approve programmes in Approved Education Institutions (AEIs) which meet these standards (see http://www.nmc-uk.org/). Currently, NES undertakes all aspects of quality assurance on educational programmes on behalf of the NMC in Scotland.