Nurse prescribing under pressure: college of PHC nurses

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Nurse prescribing under pressure: college of PHC nurses

By Lee-Anne Tait

Monday 20 June 2022, 09:40 AM

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From all accounts, rural health workers are exhausted [Image: Isabella and Zsa Fischer on Unsplash]

COLLEGE OF PHC NURSES

A reduced rural workforce has snowballing effects on the staff left to struggle on, while feeling overstretched, writes Lee-Anne Tait

Patients now cannot get a GP appointment without a month’s wait in most areas For the past 16 months I have been prescribing as a nurse in a rura, Lee-Anne Tait, Lee-Anne Tait [Image: NZD]

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