Prescriptive Authority and Nursing: a comparative analysis of Brazil and Canada

Objective: to analyse the differences between medication prescriptions by nurses in Brazil and Ontario, Canada. Methods: a comparative study between two different scenarios; this comparison was not performed between the two countries because Canada does not standardize this practice, which is leg...

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Main Authors: Maria Lígia dos Reis Bellaguarda, Sioban Nelson, Maria Itayra Padilha, Jaime Alonso Caravaca-Morera
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2015-12-01
Series:Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-11692015000601065&lng=en&tlng=en