The NMC has issued advice to Independent Nurse Prescribers on mixing drugs in palliative care. “Independent Nurse Prescribers are not authorised to prescribe a mixture of licensed medication for administration via, for example, a syringe driver. Whilst the medications they are prescribing are individually licensed for administration, if they require mixing, this alters the properties of the medication and renders it an unlicensed one.” Read the NMC report...
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