Substance abuse intervention for health care workers: A preliminary report

2000 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra C. Lapham ◽  
Iyiin Chang ◽  
Cindy Gregory
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Substance Abuse Intervention

Developing Methods for Preventing and Detecting Substance Abuse in the Operating Room: A Disease Approach

1993 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 159-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank C. Castellano
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Operating Room ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Disease Model ◽  
Occupational Hazard ◽  
Anesthesia Providers ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Anesthesia Residents

Substance abuse is an occupational hazard for health care workers in the operating room setting. Anesthesiologists have a higher rate of substance abuse than their physician counterparts. Anesthesia residents have the highest incidence of substance abuse among anesthesia providers. By creating a disease model for substance abuse, pharmacists may be better able to understand, detect, and prevent substance abuse in the operating room area. The development of comprehensive methods for dispensing and monitoring controlled substance use in the operating room should include systems that limit exposure, provide accountability and consistency, and provide education for the medical staff.

scholarly journals Review on Overview of Substance Abuse among Medical Practitioners

2021 ◽  
pp. 43-47
Author(s):  
Mandar Ghanshyam Bhugaonkar ◽  
Rakesh Kumar Jha ◽  
Sarju Zilate
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Drug Abuse ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
English Language ◽  
Medical Practitioners ◽  
Substituted Amphetamines ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Drug Violence ◽  
Brain And Behavior

Substance Misuse, also known as substance abuse, is a disease marked by a harmful habit of using illicit or legal substances or medications such as alcohol, heroin, cocaine, or substituted amphetamines such as methamphetamine and MDMA. Drug abuse deeply impact physician's brain and behavior such that they are unable to control the use of drug to the point that it interferes with the ability to function which may harm patients and cause medical errors. The fact is, physicians can easily access various opioids and substituted amphetamines. This article review is the examination of existing published research articles on substance abuse among health care workers. This literature was reviewed using PubMed and google scholar search criteria set so that all the article could be found in English language along with certain keywords such as Health care workers, addiction, opioids, drug abuse. I gone through various articles, of which 10 articles related to study. It was found that substance abuse in medical workers were greater than general people and keeps increasing at an alarming rate. The most favored drug by health care workers is alcohol, the incidence of opioids and some nonopioids anesthetic agent abuse. Especially propofol, most commonly used by anesthetic department and emergency medicine. There is wide difference between general public and health care workers regarding drug abuse. Although Health care workers had a better prognosis but 10%-15% of health care are workers susceptible to drug violence at some point in their lives.

Organizational Factors and Health Care Workers' Physical Safety

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Lipscomb ◽  
Jeanne Geiger-Brown ◽  
Katherine McPhaul ◽  
Karen Calabro
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Organizational Factors ◽  
Care Workers

Workplace verbal abuse and risk of occupational injury among health care workers

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erika L. Sabbath ◽  
Cassandra Okechukwu ◽  
David Hurtado ◽  
Glorian Sorensen
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Occupational Injury ◽  
Verbal Abuse ◽  
Care Workers

Moral injury in health-care workers during COVID-19 pandemic.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stacey Diane Arañez Litam ◽  
Richard S. Balkin
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Moral Injury ◽  
Care Workers

86. Engineering Control to Prevent the Spread of Tuberculosis Among Health Care Workers in Thailand

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.A. Jensen ◽  
W. Uthaivorawit ◽  
D. Garrett ◽  
P. Zuber ◽  
K. Limpakarnjanarat
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Engineering Control ◽  
Care Workers
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