Nurses target PBS funding for when they start prescribing S4 and S8 drugs later this year
The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia is poised to reveal details of the training nurses must undertake to prescribe.
Nursing groups are already bidding for PBS subsidies after health ministers decided to let RNs prescribe S4 and S8 drugs, starting this year.
In an election wish list, the nurses also want RNs to order mammograms, X-rays and dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry scans and midwives to order non-invasive prenatal testing, pelvic ultrasound and iron studies.
