ABSTRACT
In order to increase safe access to buprenorphine treatment for patients with opioid dependence, it is the position of the International Nurses Society on Addictions (IntNSA) that the Drug Addiction Treatment Act of 2000 (DATA 2000) be amended to allow for the prescribing of buprenorphine by qualified advanced practice nurses who have both prescriptive authority and specialty certification in addictions nursing.
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Advanced Practice Nursing/legislation & jurisprudence , Buprenorphine/therapeutic use , Drug Prescriptions/nursing , Drug and Narcotic Control , Narcotic Antagonists/therapeutic use , Opioid-Related Disorders/therapy , Humans , Opiate Substitution Treatment/nursing , Psychiatric Nursing/legislation & jurisprudence , United StatesSubject(s)
Attitude of Health Personnel , Contraception/methods , Contraceptive Agents, Female/therapeutic use , Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice , Women's Health , Contraception/standards , Contraceptive Agents, Female/standards , Female , Health Education/methods , Humans , Professional-Patient Relations , United StatesSubject(s)
Health Promotion/organization & administration , Maternal Welfare , Preconception Care/organization & administration , Women's Health , California , Continuity of Patient Care/organization & administration , Female , Forecasting , Health Expenditures/statistics & numerical data , Healthy People Programs/organization & administration , Humans , Infant Mortality , Infant, Newborn , Maternal Mortality , Maternal-Child Nursing/organization & administration , Nurse's Role , Organizational Objectives , United States/epidemiologyABSTRACT
Childhood sexual abuse has a lifelong impact on its survivors and may affect the childbearing experience in a variety of ways. Nurses caring for women during the perinatal period can benefit from understanding the phenomenon of child sexual abuse, its prevalence, and the sequelae experienced by childbearing women. Signs, symptoms, and correlates of prior sexual abuse manifested during the perinatal period are described, and nursing care responses are suggested. Nurses may be able to use this information to recognize survivors and facilitate both a positive childbirth experience and the healing process, by helping the survivor learn to trust, respect, and care for her body.
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Child Abuse, Sexual/psychology , Maternal-Child Nursing/organization & administration , Nurse's Role , Parturition/psychology , Postnatal Care , Prenatal Care/methods , Survivors/psychology , Attitude to Health , Child , Child Abuse, Sexual/diagnosis , Child Abuse, Sexual/statistics & numerical data , Conflict, Psychological , Fear , Female , Humans , Needs Assessment , Nursing Assessment , Parenting/psychology , Patient Education as Topic , Postnatal Care/methods , Postnatal Care/psychology , Pregnancy , Prevalence , Repression, Psychology , Risk Factors , Social Support , Touch , Truth DisclosureABSTRACT
Preconception health promotion encourages and enables a woman to actively plan pregnancy, enter pregnancy in good health with as few risk factors as possible, and be informed about her general and reproductive health before conception. Nurses have provided this holistic health care since the early 1900s. In succeeding decades, various components of and methods for promoting preconception health have been discovered and emphasized. Embracing preconception health promotion as wellness for life brings us full circle.
