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Mitigating structural vulnerability for people who use drugs at the clinical- and policy-level
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People who use illegal drugs (PWUD) often face adverse socio-political contexts (e.g., poverty, homelessness, racialization, criminalization) that make them structurally vulnerable. Structurally vulnerable PWUD experience elevated exposure to stigmatization, discrimination, and cultural...
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Fall 2020
People who use illegal drugs (PWUD) seek acute care at disproportionately higher rates than members of the general population. Presentations to acute care provide an important opportunity to engage with PWUD. However, hospitals are often ill-equipped to meet the needs of this population. PWUD...
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The provision of end-of-life care by medical-surgical nurses working in acute care: A literature review.
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Objective: Caring for terminally ill patients is complex, stressful, and at times distressing for nurses. Acute care hospitals continue to be the predominant place of death for terminally ill patients in most Western countries. The objective of the present literature review was to explore and...