What is it about?
This is a continued professional development series on drug calculation skills for independent nurse and allied health professional prescribers. The case considers the pharmacological management for growth hormone deficiency in children. There is a brief review of current literature regarding conditions presenting with growth hormone deficiency and a case study approach to drug calculation skills test.
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Why is it important?
Continued professional development is a cornerstone of nurse, midwife and allied health professional practice and an essential requirement for NMC revalidation. This series provides an opportunity to consider evidence based practice and current research in relation to a different topic each publication and test their numeracy skills.
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As an independent prescriber and educationalist writing this series presents the opportunity to review current pharmacological management of a variety of conditions to expand my contemporary knowledge of these . This is invaluable for conditions which are not in my sphere of practice to support my currency as an educationalist.
Dr Sonya MacVicar
Edinburgh Napier University
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This page is a summary of: Growth hormone deficiency in children, Journal of Prescribing Practice, October 2025, Mark Allen Group,
DOI: 10.12968/jprp.2025.0121.
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