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Type: Journal article
Title: Developing specialist standards for nurses and midwives working in drug and alcohol across Australia and New Zealand
Author: Deering, D.
Leonard, L.
de Crespigny, C.
Curtis, J.
Ough, J.
Citation: Drug and Alcohol Review, 2010; 29(Suppl 1):55-
Publisher: Blackwell publishing
Issue Date: 2010
ISSN: 0959-5236
1465-3362
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Daryle Deering, Louise Leonard, Charlotte De Crespigny, Janette Curtis, Janice Ough
Abstract: Having searched the international literature there appears to be no specialist drug and alcohol nursing standards to guide Australian and New Zealand drug and alcohol nurses. In New Zealand trends in mental health and alcohol and drug (AOD) treatment and workforce development emphasise concepts such as service integration, person centred interventions, wellness, wellbeing, recovery and consumer rights. Many of those who present to Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) services have complex addiction problems, including co-existing substance use and mental health disorders, and commonly, physical health and social issues. Specialist nurses working with AOD clients require specifi c attributes, knowledge and skills to deliver culturally safe, non judgemental and effective care in a variety of community and inpatient settings. Earlier research surveyed New Zealand nurses from the AOD treatment sector, and developed the report titled: Development of the advanced practice nursing strategy for the addiction treatment sector: a discussion document (Deering 2008). A key recommendation was for the development of advanced practice AOD/addiction nursing competencies to: 1) provide a developmental pathway for specialist AOD nurses; 2) provide guidance for professional development activities and curricula content for postgraduate interdisciplinary and nursing education courses, including nursing clinical master’s paper; 3) assist interdisciplinary colleagues, nursing leaders, managers, planners and funders, and consumers, to understand the knowledge and skill requirements for advanced specialist AOD nursing roles and the nature of support required for nurses to develop advanced specialist competencies. In 2009 Matua Raki (National Addiction Workforce Development Centre) provided support more broadly for the development of AOD nursing standards, and associated knowledge and skill competency ‘sets’ from foundation to advanced levels that would be compatible with the overarching nursing standards required of the whole profession. The purpose of this paper is to describe the progress of the collaborative trans-Tasman work currently being undertaken to develop and validate specialist AOD nursing standards. Once completed we will then identify the necessary competencies framework for AOD Specialist Nursing to meet the standards. This work is auspiced by the Drug and Alcohol Nurses of Australasia (DANA).
Description: Abstract of a paper presented at the 30th Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and Other Drugs (APSAD) Conference, held in Canberra, Australia, 28 November - 1 December 2010.
Rights: © 2010 Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs
DOI: 10.1111/j.1465-3362.2010.00261.x
Published version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1465-3362.2010.00261.x
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