There are often significant hurdles for nurses working with refugees or immigrants who use drugs, including language barriers and dealing with people who are living with the effects of trauma and social isolation. View the complete 45-minute documentary Bevel Up. Explore all 10 educational playlists or the Teacher's Guide for this chapter.
There are often significant hurdles for nurses working with refugees or immigrants who use drugs, including language barriers and dealing with people who are living with the effects of trauma and social isolation.
View the complete 45-minute documentary Bevel Up. Explore all 10 educational playlists or the Teacher's Guide for this chapter.
Street nurse Caroline Brunt and health care worker Tuan Luu meet a Vietnamese man who, like his father and grandfather, shoots heroin. Caroline teaches him how to inject safely—with the “bevel up.”
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Street nurse Caroline Brunt explains that listening is the first step in delivering effective health care to anyone who uses drugs.
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Street nurse Caroline Brunt explores how detox or a supervised-injection site provide realistic first steps towards better health care.
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Nursing-practice consultant Mary Adlersberg and nursing ethicist Paddy Rodney reflect on how the nurse incorporates teaching and health promotion while supporting safe injection.
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Street nurse Fiona Gold and experts from the streets outline the effects and characteristics of common street drugs and how they are used.
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