PRN Medicines Management
A special issue of Pharmacy (ISSN 2226-4787).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2021) | Viewed by 16751
Special Issue Editor
Interests: medicines management; patient safety; nursing care
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
PRN stands for ‘pro re nata’ and is defined as authorising nurses to administer medications based on their discretion and by the patients’ requests as unscheduled medication administration alone or in combination with routine/regular prescriptions. It is used for medications prescribed by physicians and administered based on nurses’ judgements of patients’ needs and along with the collaboration of pharmacists. Accordingly, the safety of PRN medication practice depends of the expertise of and collaboration between nurses, physicians and pharmacists. Further, the significance of the patient’s role in the appropriate use of PRN medications should be emphasised.
PRN medicins management has many benefits, but its inappropriate use can lead to overdose and overuse of medications and endangering patient safety. Therefore, there is a need for improvement of current international knowledge and connection of researchers’ valuable practical experiences for the development of the safest model of PRN medicine management in various healthcare settings.
In this Special Issue, the editor welcomes qualitative and quantitative research articles, commentaries, letters to the editor, theoretical and methodological reviews on healthcare professionals’ experiences relating to PRN medicines management consisting of prescription, administration and monitoring adverse drug reactions in short-term and long-term healthcare settings and acute care and emergency departments. The suggestion of innovative and practical strategies for improving the safety of PRN medication practice is emphasised.
Prof. Dr. Mojtaba Vaismoradi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- pro re nata
- PRN
- Medicine management
- Patient
- Nurses
- Healthcare providers’ collaboration
- Patient safety
- Drug-related side effects and adverse reactions
- Medication safety
- Medication error
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