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Substance Use Disorder in Healthcare Professionals

When Caregivers Need Care and Treatment

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Authors:
  1. Kristin Waite-Labott

    1. Veritus, Hales Corners, USA

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  • Educates on what to look for and what to do if substance use disorder in healthcare workers is discovered

  • Brings awareness to the scope of the problem and offers solutions

  • Written by a nurse in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction sharing real life experience

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Healthcare Professionals and Substance Use Disorder

    • Kristin Waite-Labott
    Pages 1-17

  3. Why and How Substance Use Disorder Occurs in Healthcare Professionals

    • Kristin Waite-Labott
    Pages 19-33

  4. Overview of Substance Use in Healthcare Professionals

    • Kristin Waite-Labott
    Pages 35-55

  5. Monitoring Programs, Disciplinary Action, and Alternative to Discipline Programs

    • Kristin Waite-Labott
    Pages 57-68

  6. Barriers to Seeking Treatment and Reentry to the Workforce

    • Kristin Waite-Labott
    Pages 69-80

  7. Diversion Prevention

    • Kristin Waite-Labott
    Pages 81-93

  8. Medication-Assisted Treatment

    • Kristin Waite-Labott
    Pages 95-109

  9. What Recovery Looks Like

    • Kristin Waite-Labott
    Pages 111-119
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About this book

This book develops on substance use disorder in healthcare workers, a topic not often discussed. While the phenomena is nothing new, the desire to learn about it is. This book describes why substance use disorder occurs in healthcare workers, explains how to recognize substance use disorder in peers and how to care for them. It discusses the barriers to seeking treatment, provides different monitoring programs and disciplinary actions, and educates on the recovery and how those with long term recovery maintain it. This book also intends to decrease stigmatizing behaviors. 
While the main focus is nursing, this book can be helpful to any healthcare professional group. Dr Carmel Clancy, President of the International Nurses Society on Addictions (IntNSA), did us the honor of writing the Foreword.







Authors and Affiliations

  • Veritus, Hales Corners, USA

    Kristin Waite-Labott

About the author

Kristin Waite-Labott is a Registered Nurse and has worked with substance use disorders for 15 years in many different settings. She earned her BSN degree from Winona State University in 1991, and is currently the head nurse coach for Veritus, a virtual treatment program for medical professionals with substance use disorder. She is the Interim President of the International Nurses Society on Addictions (IntNSA) USA and is President of the Eastern Wisconsin  IntNSA Chapter.

In 2005 she lost almost everything to her alcohol and opioid use disorders. None of her family, friends, or co-workers knew that she was using drugs, not until she was fired from her job and arrested. She has been clean and sober since that time. She now works as a nurse recovery coach, an emergency room nurse, writes a blog on issues surrounding recovery from substances and works with others who struggle with substances. Her goal is to increase awareness about the problem of substance use disorder in healthcare. 

 

 


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Substance Use Disorder in Healthcare Professionals

  • Book Subtitle: When Caregivers Need Care and Treatment

  • Authors: Kristin Waite-Labott

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09990-8

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-09989-2Published: 13 September 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-09990-8Published: 12 September 2022

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 119

  • Number of Illustrations: 45 b/w illustrations, 129 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Nursing, Health Care Management, Clinical Psychology

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