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Implementing Hospital-Based Supervised Consumption Services: Healthcare Provider Perspectives on an Innovation in Clinical Care
DownloadSpring 2024
Hospital settings are considered high-risk environments for people who use drugs (PWUD). Abstinence-based policies and a lack of access to in-hospital harm reduction services can result in high-risk drug consumption practices, increase the risk of unsupervised overdose, and contribute to high...
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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.
Download2013
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...
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2010
This study explored the nature of the lived experience of being nurse practitioners (NPs) in acute-care settings in Canadian teaching hospitals using hermeneutic phenomenological inquiry guided by van Manen’s approach. A total of 26 NPs were interviewed. Data analysis revealed that NPs...