"Providing a complete episode of care": A survey of registered nurse and registered midwife prescribing behaviours and practices.

Aims And Objectives: To describe the prescribing behaviours and practices of registered nurse and midwife prescribers and to explore experiences of enablers and barriers to prescribing practices.

Background: The extension of prescriptive authority to nurses and midwives internationally has created new opportunities for them to expand their scope of practice and is of significant benefit to effective and efficient health service provision.

Design: Cross-sectional national survey of registered nurse and midwife prescribers.

Models of initial training and pathways to registration: a selective review of policy in professional regulation.

Aim: To provide a synthesis of literature on international policy concerning professional regulation in nursing and midwifery, with reference to routes of entry into training and pathways to licensure.

Background: Internationally, there is evidence of multiple points of entry into initial training, multiple divisions of the professional register and multiple pathways to licensure.

Evaluation: Policy documents and commentary articles concerned with models of initial training and pathways to licensure were reviewed.