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Emergency Care Article Summary 3

Jenna Horgan

Professor Henriquez

St Thomas University

January 31, 2022

Recommendations for emergency department caring for persons with opioid use and opioid use disorders aim at providing utmost clinical guidance for healthcare nurses dealing with the undertreated and stigmatized population. This is achieved by integrated research that focuses on treating adults using opioid agonist-antagonist medicines in the emergency department (Munn, 2018). The process of Opioid care starts by identifying the risks associated with opioid use, implementing the applied strategies, and then conducting a possible follow-up to monitor the opioid use (Bell, 2020).

The recommendations provided are helpful for nurses to facilitate changes in healthcare systems and manage proper care of individuals with opioid use, withdrawal, and the risks of opioid overdose (Bell, 2020). For instance, individuals with a high risk for opioids do not qualify for opioid use disorder. Thus, determining the treatment resources available in the emergency department is essential. The responsibility of emergency nurses is to advocate for the establishment of treatment and facility partnership programs for efficient care linkage and coordination. They also engage in discussions and problem-solving processes with other care professionals and patients to identify and remove referral acceptance barriers.

Notably, emergency departments are ideal settings purposely to address opioid crises. Therefore, emergency care departments play a significant role in providing suitable treatment and interventions for individuals suspected of using opioids. Although most individuals use opioid medicines related to community-based approaches, they need a referral to emergency care. Many emergency care departments utilize the screening brief method and referral treatment approach to provide opioid treatment hence acting as an example to other related departments (Munn, 2018). As a result, their approach is widely adopted to save more lives in other departments.

References

Bell, C. A. F., & McCurry, M. (2020). Opioid use disorder education for acute care nurses: An integrative review. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 29(17-18), 3122-3135.

Munn, Z., Peters, M. D., Stern, C., Tufanaru, C., McArthur, A., & Aromataris, E. (2018). Systematic review or scoping review? Guidance for authors when choosing between a systematic or scoping review approach. BMC medical research methodology, 18(1), 1-7.