Improving nurses' responses toward substance-misusing patients: a clinical evaluation project

摘要: Practitioners in acute and primary care settings often fail to identify intervene with chemically dependent patients. Counterproductive attitudes, lack of knowledge, poor clinical skills impede early identification, treatment, referral. In response these problems, an educational intervention was designed improve practicing nurses' recognition responses substance-misusing Results the pretest posttest comparison group evaluation suggest that interventions were influential improving confidence caring for substance misusing Although data reflecting changes attitudes less compelling, improvement treatment optimism is a positive change has important implications.