Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioners and drugs – a prescription for success?

This paper focuses on the role of the Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner (ANNP) in prescribing drugs. A summary of the current situation is followed by a review of the pathways whereby nurses in the UK may legally prescribe and the value of these pathways to ANNPs. Current training programmes for non-medical prescribing staff are considered as well as how these relate to ANNPs. A conclusion discusses how problems may be resolved.