Nurses ‘feel pressure’ from patients to prescribe unnecessary antibiotics

Many nurse prescribers feel under pressure from patients to give unnecessary antibiotics for upper respiratory tract infections, sometimes leading them to do so against their better judgement, according to UK researchers. They highlighted that the number of nurse prescribers was increasing, but said that little…

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