In January 2016 Polish nurses and midwives were granted new powers to prescribe medications and food of special purposes, as well as to issue referrals for several diagnostic tests and prescriptions for reimbursed medical products. The aim of this paper is to present the possibility to describe the process of prescribing medications using the international language of nursing practice ICNP®. International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP®) is a unified glossary of referential terms for nursing practice that is recommended by the most important medical and professional organisations in Poland and all over the world. Numerous ICNP® terms, which do not only meet international criteria but can – and should –become the primary communication tool for everyday nursing practice of Polish nurses and midwives are an alternative to often random, traditional and intuitive expressions describing nursing and midwifery activities related to widely understood process of prescribing medications.
