Identifying and Responding to Drug and Alcohol Addiction in Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Healthcare Practice

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Identifying and Responding to Drug and Alcohol Addiction in Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Healthcare Practice
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Overview

Duration	3 weeks
Total fee	₹2,205
Mode of learning	Online
Credential	Certificate

Identifying and Responding to Drug and Alcohol Addiction in Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Healthcare Practice

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Identifying and Responding to Drug and Alcohol Addiction in Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Healthcare Practice
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Explore non-stigmatising approaches to addiction treatment and recovery using a harm reduction approach.

Identifying and Responding to Drug and Alcohol Addiction in Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Healthcare Practice
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On this course, you will receive an overview of approaches to addiction treatment, from detoxification to harm reduction and addiction recovery.
Learning from real life examples, you will hear from experienced practitioners around the globe and be introduced to addiction assessment tools. You will also learn how to conduct screening and brief interventions, and administer naloxone in the case of an overdose.
This course focuses on approaches to drug and alcohol addiction treatment for nurses and other healthcare professionals.
It is suitable for those with some knowledge, as well as those with no prior knowledge or qualifications in addiction.
The addiction treatment approaches and tools in this course cover the whole lifespan, from expectant mothers to older people. You will discover how to safeguard the health and wellbeing of people using substances and explore the role of family members.
Ultimately, you will be able to enhance your own service provision with regard to addiction treatment. You will discuss the practicalities of providing specific services and consider the role of leadership in implementing new policies and practices in addiction treatment and recovery.
This course is delivered by global experts in addiction from Trinity College Dublin, practising addiction nurse and midwife experts, and harm reduction specialists.
Your course creators are pioneers of a new Healthy Addiction Treatment (HAT) recovery model, and you will learn more about HAT during the course.
The intention of this course is to improve knowledge of addiction treatment approaches in healthcare, and in the longer term, create more addiction specialists.