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YEAR: 2006

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Nurse prescribing in family planning.

AUTHORS

Young F

SOURCE

Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care. 2006;32(1):45-46.

ABSTRACT

Recently a friend of mine (who was also a family planning patient for a while) forgot to take her combined oral

contraceptive pill. As a busy detective sergeant in the Metropolitan police and scheduled to work a long weekend,

she knew she would not have enough time to go home to take her pill before it became `overdue'. Both she and her

partner were well motivated to use condoms if necessary, but her big worry was the blinding headaches she got in

the pill-free week. So she phoned me to ask: "Where could she get three Mercilon pills - and quick?" As she was just

stepping off the Tube in central London, I suggested she pop into a pharmacy chain and I could talk to the

pharmacist. "Please could my friend possibly have a pack of pills?" "No - doctor's prescription required." "I am her

family planning nurse, I can vouch it is safe and proper for her to have them." "No." "But I have been prescribing them

for her for the last 2 years." "No, you're not a doctor - and anyway, nurses don't prescribe drugs." "But what about that

bit in the British National Formulary (BNF) about emergency prescribing?" "Contraceptive pill is not an emergency."

Click, the phone went dead. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT1T 46-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Nurse prescribing in family planning.", is(are) Young F.

The source of this article is "Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care. 2006;32(1):45-46.". This

article was published in 2006 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT1T 46-06. All rights

reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 46

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