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Author: Janet Hunter
Date: February 2008
Journal: Nursing Standard
Issue: Volume 22, Number 24
Keywords: Clinical procedures, Drug administration, Injection technique
THE NURSING and Midwifery Council’s(NMC’s) (2007) Standards for Medicines Managementstate that administration of medicines ‘is not solely a mechanistic task to beperformed in strict compliance with the written prescription of a medical practitioner (now independent/supplementary prescriber). It requires thought and the exercise of professional judgement.’

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