The present article presents a brief summary of the articles and themes highlighted in this
Special Issue on the importance of nursing in our current health care system. As will be …

Medicines management is a high-risk and error prone process in healthcare settings, where
nurses play an important role to preserve patient safety. In order to create a safe healthcare …

Purpose The authors describe a case study of a quality improvement initiative to implement
the 2016 CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain 2 (“2016 CDC Guideline”) …

With morbidity and mortality related to opioid use continuing to increase, clinicians need to
better understand the risk for opioid misuse in patient populations. Screening for opioid …

Background: Patients experience physical pain for a myriad of reasons. The patients'
expression of pain is often difficult to quantify and treat based on individuality of the patients …

Substance abuse is a chronic disease. The evidence shows that many nurses lack the
knowledge, skills, attitudes and confidence needed to help those struggling with substance …

Routine screening by clinicians for opioid misuse risk in patients with cancer can improve
the efficacy of pain management and reduce the risk for opioid misuse in this population.[...] …