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JOURNAL OF ADDICTIONS NURSING
卷 32, 期 4, 页码 235-248出版社
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/JAN.0000000000000435
关键词
Drug Consumption Room; Harm Reduction; Harm Reduction Nursing; Nursing Roles; Safer Consumption Site; Supervised Consumption Site; Supervised Injection Facility
Safer consumption sites (SCSs) help reduce risks of infection, injury, and death for drug users, with nurses playing important roles in reducing morbidity and mortality, creating a therapeutic community, and engaging in research and advocacy. More research is needed to understand and support the roles of SCS nurses in serving vulnerable populations.
Opioid use, particularly via injection, is associated with an increased risk of infection, injury, and death. Safer consumption sites (SCSs), where people may consume previously obtained drugs under observation, have been shown to reduce these risks among people who use drugs. Most SCSs employ nurses, but there is limited research into their roles. The objective of this article is to describe and synthesize the roles of nurses at SCSs to better understand their importance in a rapidly proliferating public health intervention. We extracted data from 48 qualitative, quantitative, peer-reviewed, and gray literature, as well as primary source narrative articles on SCSs, whether they were explicitly about nursing or not. We coded each mention of nurses or nursing in each article and identified 11 descriptive themes or roles that SCS nurses carry out. From these, we identified the following three analytical themes or hypotheses about the character of these roles: (a) The primary aim of SCS nursing care is to reduce morbidity and mortality; (b) SCS nurses create a therapeutic community; and (c) SCS nurses engage in research, professional activities, and activism to better understand and promote SCSs. More research into the roles of SCS nurses is needed to better serve a vulnerable population.
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