Mental and substance use disorders are leading contributing factors for the Australian non‐
fatal burden of disease. These disorders frequently co‐occur in the mental health …

Compassion has been put forth as a core concept in caring science, although there has also
been a debate over whether it is a nonprofessional sentiment or not. In this theoretical …

Patients find forensic psychiatric care inadequate in that they are not treated as individuals
and not involved in their own care. The purpose of this study was to describe patients' …

Background Pain is a personal and subjective experience. Prehospital emergency nurses
(PEN) should work on the basis that all people are equal and entitled to the same care …

Introduction Patients who suffer from substance use disorder (SUD) might receive services
from different service providers in an opioid maintenance treatment programme (OMT) and …

The prevalence of dual diagnosis, that is, the combination of psychiatric illnesses and
substance use disorders, is high. As a vast majority of previous research in this context …

Background Patients intoxicated after abusing illicit drugs constitute a significant proportion
of patients cared for in intensive care units. Intensive critical care nurses who nurse …

Background In the United States, a national priority exists to improve access to medication
treatment for opioid use disorder (MOUD). Nurses can be an essential component of that …

Stigma experienced by drug users by their healthcare professionals can be a barrier to
treatment engagement, which in turn affects mortality and morbidity rates. Attribution theory …

Consumers with co-existing mental health and drug/alcohol problems are exposed to more
stigma than those with any other health problems. This scoping review aimed to …