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Overview
Substance Use and Misuse is a comprehensive and practical text that covers the core elements of substance use and misuse in both acute and community settings. The text reflects those areas in which health-care professionals are assuming greater responsibility for those people misusing psychoactive substances. It adopts a skills-orientated approach, providing a framework of good clinical practice and is written by a group of clinicians and academics. This book is an invaluable tool for undergraduate and postgraduate students, educators and clinical practitioners in all branches of nursing, midwifery and health visiting. It is also relevant to others in the healing professions as well as generic and specialist health-care professionals.
* emphasis placed on prevention
* an up-to-date, practical and comprehensive text for students and practitioners in health care
* adopts a skills-orientated approach, supported by the latest research and case vignettes
* written by experts in clinical practice, management, education and research
The book contains no figures.
Synopsis
Substance Use and Misuse is a comprehensive and practical text that covers the core elements of substance use and misuse in both acute and community settings. The text reflects those areas in which health-care professionals are assuming greater responsibility for those people misusing psychoactive substances. It adopts a skills-orientated approach, providing a framework of good clinical practice and is written by a group of clinicians and academics. This book is an invaluable tool for undergraduate and postgraduate students, educators and clinical practitioners in all branches of nursing, midwifery and health visiting. It is also relevant to others in the healing professions as well as generic and specialist health-care professionals.
* emphasis placed on prevention
* an up-to-date, practical and comprehensive text for students and practitioners in health care
* adopts a skills-orientated approach, supported by the latest research and case vignettes
* written by experts in clinical practice, management, education and research
Eileen Trigoboff
This text is an exploration of all aspects of nursing contact with substance use and misuse. The healthcare provider's response to, and management of, the clinical situation of substance use/misuse is carefully described and developed to promote appropriate treatment. This text is an introduction to issues in working with substance misuse and assists in understanding its extent and nature. Treatment frameworks are included with descriptions of the historical nature and the span of influence of this problem, and the current concerns of substance misuse. Each objective is carefully fulfilled. The audience for this text includes students, nursing clinicians, and other healthcare providers. Each group will find this book enormously helpful when confronted with the inevitable combination of substance misuse and a healthcare problem. The editor and contributors are active nursing clinicians with internationally recognized credentials. This text contains wonderful descriptions of the critical features and presentation of this clinical problem along with identification and formulation of treatment options in each specialty area of nursing. The case vignettes and the perspectives of clinical nurses are especially eloquent in creating a paradigm about substance misuse in the clinician's mind. There are shortcomings: U.K. versus U.S. statistics are cited, and these are interesting but not overly useful for the U.S. practitioner, and the references tend to be slightly older than the usual clinically accepted five years. Still, these are insignificant in comparison to the larger benefit to be gained by readind this book. The table of contents is very detailed. The foreword skillfullysummarizes the direction and impact of this book. This book is an especially useful primer and resource for all nursing and healthcare specialties, but is an essential text for psychiatric nursing students and practitioners. Few books are available on this topic and none have represented the entire clinical issue as well.
Editorials
Reviewer: Eileen Trigoboff, RN, CS, DNS(Buffalo Psychiatric Center)
Description: This text is an exploration of all aspects of nursing contact with substance use and misuse. The healthcare provider's response to, and management of, the clinical situation of substance use/misuse is carefully described and developed to promote appropriate treatment.
Purpose: This text is an introduction to issues in working with substance misuse and assists in understanding its extent and nature. Treatment frameworks are included with descriptions of the historical nature and the span of influence of this problem, and the current concerns of substance misuse. Each objective is carefully fulfilled.
Audience: The audience for this text includes students, nursing clinicians, and other healthcare providers. Each group will find this book enormously helpful when confronted with the inevitable combination of substance misuse and a healthcare problem. The editor and contributors are active nursing clinicians with internationally recognized credentials.
Features: This text contains wonderful descriptions of the critical features and presentation of this clinical problem along with identification and formulation of treatment options in each specialty area of nursing. The case vignettes and the perspectives of clinical nurses are especially eloquent in creating a paradigm about substance misuse in the clinician's mind. There are shortcomings: U.K. versus U.S. statistics are cited, and these are interesting but not overly useful for the U.S. practitioner, and the references tend to be slightly older than the usual clinically accepted five years. Still, these are insignificant in comparison to the larger benefit to be gained by readind this book. The table of contents is very detailed. The foreword skillfully summarizes the direction and impact of this book.
Assessment: This book is an especially useful primer and resource for all nursing and healthcare specialties, but is an essential text for psychiatric nursing students and practitioners. Few books are available on this topic and none have represented the entire clinical issue as well.
From the Publisher
"This book will undoubtedly be useful to non-specialist nurses and all those new to the field of substance misuse It is in addition a useful reference guide to specialist nurses." Association of Nurses in Substance Abuse
"This book is a well balanced, easy to read book and will be of interest to all Health Care Professionals, but may be especially informative to student nurses in helping them gain insight into the complex nature of substance misuse"
Druglink
“This book is an especially useful primer and resource for all nursing and healthcare specialties, but is an essential text for psychiatric nursing students and practitioners. Few books are available on this topic and none have represented the entire clinical issue as well.”
Doody’s Rating 4-star
This text is an exploration of all aspects of nursing contact with substance use and misuse. The healthcare provider's response to, and management of, the clinical situation of substance use/misuse is carefully described and developed to promote appropriate treatment. This text is an introduction to issues in working with substance misuse and assists in understanding its extent and nature. Treatment frameworks are included with descriptions of the historical nature and the span of influence of this problem, and the current concerns of substance misuse. Each objective is carefully fulfilled. The audience for this text includes students, nursing clinicians, and other healthcare providers. Each group will find this book enormously helpful when confronted with the inevitable combination of substance misuse and a healthcare problem. The editor and contributors are active nursing clinicians with internationally recognized credentials. This text contains wonderful descriptions of the critical features and presentation of this clinical problem along with identification and formulation of treatment options in each specialty area of nursing. The case vignettes and the perspectives of clinical nurses are especially eloquent in creating a paradigm about substance misuse in the clinician's mind. There are shortcomings: U.K. versus U.S. statistics are cited, and these are interesting but not overly useful for the U.S. practitioner, and the references tend to be slightly older than the usual clinically accepted five years. Still, these are insignificant in comparison to the larger benefit to be gained by readind this book. The table of contents is very detailed. The foreword skillfullysummarizes the direction and impact of this book. This book is an especially useful primer and resource for all nursing and healthcare specialties, but is an essential text for psychiatric nursing students and practitioners. Few books are available on this topic and none have represented the entire clinical issue as well.
Twelve contributions discuss aspects of screening, prevention, and harm-minimization<-->many with case studies. Specific topics include tobacco smoking, an overview of psychoactive drugs, alcohol related problems, an overview of intervention strategies, school nursing and substance misuse, and the specialist responses of addiction nurses. Appends information about UK groups and helplines, UK education and training resources, and relevant international organizations. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
4 Stars! from Doody