AC7065 - Community Practitioner Prescribing for Nurses and Midwives (V100)

This module is an interactive, interesting and motivating learning experience which will help you towards confident and competent prescribing decisions. To support this you will engage in interactive and social learning opportunities through action learning groups, e-learning activities, simulation and interactive mobile apps. Seminars, peer review, group and individual tutorials. This will support your learning towards your assessments.
Over the course of the module you will work in partnership with your practice supervisor to identify opportunities for you to apply and integrate learning of clinical, legal and professional requirements alongside current available evidence to support your prescribing journey. Your progress will be supported by your supervisor and assessed n practice by your practice assessor.

You will be allocated an academic tutor to support you in your development and achievement of the module assessment requirements and help you to integrate your knowledge and application of prescribing practice within your formative and summatively assessed work. A small group tutorial will then be followed by an individual tutorial at specific points in the module.

All modules at Northumbria include a range of reading materials that students are expected to engage with. Online reading lists (provided after enrolment) give you access to your reading material for your modules. The Library works in partnership with your module tutors to ensure you have access to the material that you need.

Knowledge & Understanding:
You will be able to
1. Appraise and interpret the legal, ethical and professional frameworks for accountability and responsibility for community practitioner prescribing within your own sphere of practice
2. Evaluate evidence to support your prescribing decisions
3. Summarise your knowledge and understanding of products used within your sphere of practice

Intellectual / Professional skills & abilities:
4. Demonstrate professional skills in consultation, decision making and prescribing safely and effectively
5. Employ partnership approaches with patients/carers to monitor and review treatment, manage/report adverse drug reactions

Personal Values Attributes (Global / Cultural awareness, Ethics, Curiosity) (PVA):
6. Critique your prescribing practice and support others to prescribe safely and effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team

Formative assessment includes:
• Self-assessment of Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) competencies & building evidence seminar (MLO 1-6)
• Mock written pharmacology examination (MLO 1 & 3)
• Prescription writing workshop (MLO 4)
• Peer review of written assignment (MLO 4)
• Numeracy self-assessment (MLO 6)


This preparation will then support the summative assessment processes which include:
• Achievement of Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) competencies in clinical practice with learning log, service user feedback & personal reflection (MLO 1-6)
• 2 hour written pharmacology exam (MLO 1 & 3)
• 1500 word academic assignment (MLO 1 & 2) and accurate sample prescription (MLO 4)
• Numeracy assessment (MLO 6)

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Over the past 20 years, Northumbria University has established itself at the forefront of initiatives, working with our partners to develop the potential of health professionals as prescribers and has received excellent feedback from students. Community Practitioner Prescribing by health visitors and district nurses have pioneered the enhancement of community roles and this module continues to build on this expertise. Working alongside our teaching team of leading clinicians and academic researchers you will find this to be an interactive, interesting and motivating experience which will help you to be to acquire the knowledge and skills required for safe and effective prescribing from the UK Nurse Prescribers’ Formulary. You will utilise technology to support your learning and work in partnership with your supervisor and assessors to help you to identify learning opportunities so that you can begin your prescribing journey with a strong, confident foundation. Not only will you be developing service provision and enriching the patient/client experience, you will be enhancing your own clinical practice and career pathway.