Substance abuse among stress nurses
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Why do nurses and doctors abuse drug? Nursing is a professionalism, and it is a rewarded career. There is a shortage of nurses worldwide, so nursing is always highly demanded. Nurses have been trained to be the first to treat and the last to provide a comfort and safety high quality care for the patients. There are more female nurses in the profession, and they tend to abuse prescription drugs as females may have more stress than males naturally. Nursing job is required a lot of physical work as well as mental work, so it is very stressful. Nurses who are stress may develop chemical dependency and substance abuse. Nurses also have abused to substance disorder for a variety of reasons included professional stress, access, culture differences, and personal attitude. Truly, nurses do not think that they are substances disorders. Therefore, the impaired nurses may harm themselves as well as their patients and the colleagues.
What is the cause of burn out in nursing field? There are more than one factors effect nursing profession included work-load, overtime, rotation shifts, 12 hours shift, bullying, ill patients, death,
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The healthcare providers are commonly used Hydrocodone, Morphine, Oxycodone, Fentanyl, Ambien, Xanax, Valium, Ritalin. They had used the medication without orders, substitution medication, and frequent medication overrides. They had used the waste of the medicine. They had used the falsification order signature. Especially, nurses, who are older than 48 years old, may need the drugs for relieved chronic pain as their bodies are easily to be injured to musculoskeletal. There are 10 percent to 15 percent of general population involved in substance abuse. However, healthcare profession has a higher rate of using prescription drugs. The healthcare profession had used drugs for occupational hazard pain (John Furman, January