Nurses in Italy should be allowed to
prescribe drugs like their counterparts in many other countries,
the Italian drug agency AIFA said Wednesday.
AIFA chief Mario Melazzini said "nurses, too, should be able
to have the possibility of prescribing drugs", a possibility
that "already exists in many other countries".
"Just as we want to open the prescription of innovative drugs
to family doctors, in the same way we want to open prescription
of drugs on the part of nurses, with methods that must be looked
into," Melazzini said.
He said, however, that "a law change would be needed to
authorise them".
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