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Do not go gentle…

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Nurse Prescribing

Abstract

Dylan Thomas wrote a poem that begs one not meekly to accept death but to rage ‘against the dying of the light’ (Thomas 1987). Nurses, it seems, have to ‘rage’ in order to develop their role. Green indicates (Chapter 1) that nurse prescribing is not a new idea, having been mooted some 14 years before the first demonstration sites were announced. The demonstration was running for some 4 years prior to being rolled out to the district nursing and health visitor branches of community nursing. The exclusion of other community nurses makes a significant contribution to the secularisation of nursing.

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  1. David Skidmore
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Primary and Community Nursing, University of Central Lancashire, UK

    Jennifer L. Humphries MA, BSc(Hons), RN, RM, RHV, RHVT, CertEd (Senior Lecturer) (Senior Lecturer)

  2. Department of Health Care Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

    Joyce Green MA, BA, RN, RM, RHV, QN, NDNCert, RNT, DNT (Part-time Lecturer) (Part-time Lecturer)

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Skidmore, D. (1999). Do not go gentle…. In: Humphries, J.L., Green, J. (eds) Nurse Prescribing. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14722-9_8

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