Why are nurses unable to prescribe? Nurse practitioners (mid-senior nurses) have been able to prescribe a limited set of drugs in the UK for quite some time now, quite successfully.
Nurse practitioners can prescribe in the US as well.
This right. In fact CVS MinuteClinics are usually manned by nurse practitioners. They can do many things typically associated with internal/family medicine.
Because in order to prescribe you need to be able to make a diagnosis and to make a diagnosis you need the full knowledge of a competent doctor.
And it takes years of education and training to become a nurse. Why do people think that nurses shouldn't be able to prescribe medications? Is it because of the gender they're traditionally associated with?