TABLE 8.

Top 25 keywords in the study of nurses’ prescribing rights from 1989 to 2023.

Rank	Keyword	Count	Total link strength
1	Nursing practitioners	90	415
2	Nursing prescribing	76	284
3	Nursing	73	340
4	Prescribing	72	306
5	Opioids	38	152
6	Primary care	38	181
7	Education	29	126
8	Buprenorphine	24	113
9	Survey	23	103
10	Medication management	22	102
11	Advanced practice registered nursing	20	88
12	Non-medical prescribing	20	85
13	Policy	19	86
14	Scope of practice	19	79
15	Mental health	17	69
16	Antibiotics	16	66
17	Opioids use disorder	15	63
18	Pain management	15	69
19	Prescriptive authority	15	60
20	Advanced practice	14	56
21	Physician assistants	13	72
22	Pharmacology	12	42
23	Chronic pain management	11	48
24	Diabetes	11	46
25	Barriers	10	58