ANSA Booklets
Working within Accident & Emergency- Working with Alcohol & Drug Users
- Working with Children & Young People
- Working within Maternal Health
- Working with Primary Health Care Teams
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These booklets are guidance documents and not sets of guidelines. They are structured so as to provide guidance on issues related to substance use from a clinical, managerial, educative and research basis for nurses. As such they offer suggestions which can be interpreted within the context of the nurse's own clinical practice. Additional information includes: consideration of 'special issues', contact addresses, references and recommended reading.
Working within Accident & Emergency
Series Editor: Carmel Clancy
Lead Authors: Royce Duxbury; Fiona Marshall; seonaid Wright
Publisher: ANSA, 1998
ISBN 901738-03-1
In A&E nurses have an opportunity to make a positive impact in prevention, detecting early signs and ensuring appropriate intervention and onward referral for people with substance misuse problems. Nurses, as one of the key health care professionals within this setting, are often the first to have contact with the patients, and are ideally placed to ensure this opportunity is not missed.
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Working within Accident & Emergency (PDF, 7.9MB)
Working with Alcohol & Drug Users
Series Editor: Carmel Clancy
Lead Authors: Patrick Coyne & Seonaid Wright
Publisher: ANSA, 1997
ISBN 1-901738-02-4
This booklet is for specialist nurses,and those developing their expertise, who work with people who are at risk of, or who are experiencing problems with alcohol and/or drug use.
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Working with Alcohol & Drug Users (PDF, 295K)
Working with Children & Young People
Series Editor: Carmel Clancy
Lead Authors: Andy McEwen & Carmel Clancy
Publisher: ANSA, 1997
ISBN 1-901738-02-4
Nurses working with children and young people will, by virtue of the evidence available on the high incidence of drug and alcohol use among the young (Miller & Plant,1996), directly or indirectly come into contact with substance use. Their knowledge and clinical skills in relation to drugs, alcohol and tobacco, and to the risks and consequences of such use, can be the basis for effective interventions with clients/patients, families and communities.
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Working with Children & Young People (PDF, 4.0MB)
Working within Maternal Health
Series Editor: Carmel Clancy
Lead Authors: Caroline Frayne; Faye Macrory
Publisher: ANSA, 2002
ISBN 0-9540503-0-4
Midwifery and the bursing profession, as one element of a response framework, has a key role in preventing, reducing and eliminating the harm caused by substance misuse. As the single largest group offering health care within the UK, there are enormous opportunities open to the profession to significantly halt the progression of addiction.
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Working within Maternal Health (PDF, 4.6MB)
Working with Primary Health Care Teams
Series Editor: Carmel Clancy
Lead Authors: Jan Miller
Publisher: ANSA, 1997
ISBN 1-901738-01-7
The nurses' knowledge and clinical skills in relation to drugs, solvents and alcohol and to the risks and consequences of their use, can be the basis for effective interventions with patients, families and communities.
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Working with Primary Health Care Teams (PDF, 4.5MB)
