Theresa Poling

Promoting empathy for patients with substance use disorder

A study approach

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Negative attitudes of health professionals towards patients with SUD are common and contribute to suboptimal health care for this marginalized group of patients. Promoting empathy in the Emergency Department (ED) has the potential to increase nursing staff's awareness of their attitudes and perceptions toward patients with SUD, thereby decreasing the stigma associated with addiction and improving patient care and patient outcomes. In 2019 a project was implemented to evaluate a tool to promote empathy. This tool was developed by this student researcher based on a literature search and analysis. Findings demonstrated that a program to promote empathy in the ED was an effective tool for increasing nursing staff's awareness of their attitudes and perceptions toward patients with SUD. This awareness has the potential to decrease the stigma associated with addiction and improve patient care and patient outcomes. Similar programs can be easily incorporated into institutional education curriculum. Larger studies to determine significant relationships between data are recommended.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 60
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 4mm
• Gewicht: 107g
• ISBN-13: 9786200262752
• ISBN-10: 6200262756
• Artikelnr.: 57525660

Autorenporträt

A Dra. Theresa Poling é uma enfermeira de família no Buckhannon Medical Center e professora de enfermagem no programa de pós-graduação no West Virginia Wesleyan College. A Dra. Poling concluiu recentemente o seu doutoramento na Universidade da Virgínia Ocidental, onde centrou os seus estudos no cuidado de pacientes com distúrbios relacionados com o uso de substâncias.