The nurses de Canary Islands may prescribe certain medications as of today. It is a pioneering initiative in Spain promoted by the Ministry of Health that aims to streamline healthcare in Canary Islands.
The Minister of Health reported that All those Nursing professionals who have provided services in the Canary Health Service for at least one year will be able to obtain the necessary accreditation at the SCS electronic headquarters prior identification in the Centralized Authentication System of the Government of the Canary Islands, or through the use of the digital or cl @ ve certificate.
While the medical prescription will be limited to high-risk medications or antibiotics. With this new prescription decree, procedures will be reduced and service times will be cut. This initiative will provide the nursing of the archipelago with a broader competence framework that will favor the integration of health teams. In addition, the limits of their functions will be regulated and regulated by clinical practice guidelines that the Ministry of Health has committed to develop in the coming months.
This fact makes Canary Islandsa pioneer in applying this measure. The nurses will be able to be accredited in an agile and dynamic way. The Canarian Government calculates that between the 95 and 98% of the 12.000 nurses of the islands will be prescribers in a short time, which will lead to generating new work agreements to start the care and prescription of the products.