All Outputs (5)

Insomnia: management and treatments (2008)
Journal Article
Snowden, A. (2008). Insomnia: management and treatments. Nurse Prescribing, 6, 382-389. https://doi.org/10.12968/npre.2008.6.9.31076

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guideline for treatment of insomnia suggests non-pharmacological interventions should take priority. This article discusses the rationale for this and grounds it in the evidence for and... Read More about Insomnia: management and treatments.

Medication management in older adults: a critique of concordance (2008)
Journal Article
Snowden, A. (2008). Medication management in older adults: a critique of concordance. British Journal of Nursing, 17, 114-119. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2008.17.2.28140

This article shows that the terms compliance, adherence and concordance are used interchangeably in the medication management literature. As such, it is argued that nurses should focus on those interventions that are demonstrably effective in enhanci... Read More about Medication management in older adults: a critique of concordance.

Prescribing in anxiety (2008)
Journal Article
Snowden, A. (2008). Prescribing in anxiety. Nurse Prescribing, 6, 349-356. https://doi.org/10.12968/npre.2008.6.8.30765

Anxiolytics are effective treatments for anxiety. This article discusses prescribing decisions against a backdrop of current NICE guideline for anxiety. As in treatment of psychosis and depression the article argues that pharmacological intervention... Read More about Prescribing in anxiety.

Quantitative analysis of mental health nurse prescribers in Scotland (2008)
Journal Article
Snowden, A. (2008). Quantitative analysis of mental health nurse prescribers in Scotland. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 15, 471-478. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2850.2008.01251.x

The UK parliament approved legislation expanding prescribing rights for all registered nurses in 2006. Mental health nurses do not appear to be embracing prescribing to the same degree as their colleagues. For example, mental health nurses represent... Read More about Quantitative analysis of mental health nurse prescribers in Scotland.

The history of prescribing (2008)
Journal Article
Snowden, A. (2008). The history of prescribing. Nurse Prescribing, 6, 530-537. https://doi.org/10.12968/npre.2008.6.12.31974

100 years ago responsibility for medication management lay with the individual. Patent medicines had been the norm for the previous 300 years. It was as a direct consequence of the laws designed to restrict the use of opiates that prescription only m... Read More about The history of prescribing.