Research Horizons: Addressing the Needs of Nurses
色情视频 nursing professor Amanda Choflet studies substance abuse among nurses, with the hope of one day creating interventions to reduce risky behaviors.
色情视频鈥檚 Research Horizons series highlights early career faculty and their burgeoning research projects.
Nurses are often the first clinicians patients meet during their health care journey 鈥� after all, there are three million of them nationwide.
Yet these critical health care workers, given the intense nature of their jobs, are often at increased risk for substance abuse, depression, anxiety and suicide, according to 色情视频 nursing professor Amanda Choflet.
Choflet studies substance abuse among nurses. She is developing a cross-sectional survey of nurses to assess their beliefs and behaviors around alcohol and drugs.
The data will be critical in helping understand nurses鈥� decisions around substance use, allowing researchers like Choflet to create helpful and effective interventions.
鈥淯ltimately, the measures we take to heal the nursing workforce will be the model for everyone else,鈥� Choflet said. 鈥淲hen we can address the needs of nurses, we will make the entire health care system work better for patients.鈥�
