**3. Nurse prescribing in Iran**

Similar to the UK, in Iran especially in critical care situations, nurses assess the patients and after diagnosing the problem, they wait for the physician to confirm and stamp the diagnosis and prescription taken by the nurse. Therefore, in future possible scenarios for nursing prescription are the works in the UK that have been done. In other words, countries such as Iran (which is in the infancy period) could use the UK experiences to develop their nursing prescription ability. In primary care, which can enable the level of access and cheaper services, or in the clinical areas such as chronic diseases (diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cerebrovascular accidents …) nurse prescriptions can be started from the list of drugs. And after some time, the independent prescription of drugs will become official from the national formulary, and registered nurses who have at least 3 years of work experience will be allowed to participate in prescription training courses.
