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Illicit Substance Use In Acute Care Hospitals: Creating A Safe Environment, Christina Sanford
Illicit Substance Use In Acute Care Hospitals: Creating A Safe Environment, Christina Sanford
Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Projects
Problem: In January 2019, a medium-sized acute care hospital in Northern California reported new safety concerns related to patients using illicit substances in the hospital.
Context: Leaving the hospital AMA is an increasing problem in acute care hospitals among patients who use illicit substances, with a rate of 25% to 30% (Ti & Ti, 2015). Grewal et al. (2015) conducted a study of over 1,000 illicit substance users who had experienced a hospitalization, where 43.9% reported use of illicit substances while in the hospital.
Intervention: The project was the creation, implementation, testing, and evaluation of multiple interventions to improve …