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Identifying and Responding to Drug and Alcohol Addiction in Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Healthcare Practice
Trinity College Dublin
  • Start Date: 06 Sep, 2021
  • 3 weeks
  • Study Content: Videos


Discover new approaches to addiction treatment and recovery and build your knowledge and leadership skills to respond effectively.

Course Fee: Free
Certificate Cost: See Fees and Eligibility
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Course Description

This course is made available through the eLearnAfrica and FutureLearn partnership.

Learn how to identify addiction, manage recovery, and lead change


On this course, you’ll receive an overview of approaches to addiction treatment, from detoxification to harm reduction and addiction recovery.


Learning from real life examples, you’ll hear from experienced practitioners around the globe and be introduced to addiction assessment tools. You’ll also learn how to conduct screening and brief interventions, and administer naloxone in the case of an overdose.


This course focuses on approaches to drug and alcohol addiction treatment for nurses and other healthcare professionals.
It is suitable for those with some knowledge, as well as those with no prior knowledge or qualifications in addiction.


Improve addiction treatment provision in your practice


The addiction treatment approaches and tools in this course cover the whole lifespan, from expectant mothers to older people. You’ll discover how to safeguard the health and wellbeing of people using substances and explore the role of family members.


Ultimately, you will be able to enhance your own service provision with regard to addiction treatment. You’ll discuss the practicalities of providing specific services and consider the role of leadership in implementing new policies and practices in addiction treatment and recovery.


Learn from leading experts in addiction treatment


This course is delivered by global experts in addiction from Trinity College Dublin, practising addiction nurse and midwife experts, and harm reduction specialists.


Your course creators are pioneers of a new Healthy Addiction Treatment (HAT) recovery model, and you’ll learn more about HAT during the course.


The intention of this course is to improve knowledge of addiction treatment approaches in healthcare, and in the longer term, create more addiction specialists.


This addiction treatment course is aimed at nurses, midwives, and allied health and social care professionals.


No prior experience or qualifications in addiction are required. The course aims to widen understanding of addiction recovery in the sector.


Certificate cost may vary. You will be redirected to the host page for cost and payment options.

Trinity College Dublin

Trinity College Dublin is Ireland’s leading university, ranked 1st in Ireland and 61st in the world (2013 QS World University rankings)

Founded in 1592, Trinity College Dublin has a vibrant cosmopolitan community of 17,000 students, 97,000 alumni and 2,500 members of staff. Students hail from every county in Ireland and 118 countries around the globe and represent a wide range of social backgrounds, age-groups and cultures.

Located in the centre of Dublin, Ireland’s capital city, with a reputation for friendliness, Trinity’s 47-acre campus is home to technologically advanced libraries, laboratories and IT facilities that have been seamlessly integrated into the beautiful historic campus.

Cutting edge research, technology and innovation places the University at the forefront of higher education in Ireland and internationally. A unique educational experience across a range of disciplines in the arts, humanities, engineering, science, human, social and health sciences is offered. Trinity has an outstanding record of publications in high-impact journals, and a track record in winning research funding which is among the best in the country.

 

This institution is available on eLearnAfrica through partnership with FutureLearn.

You may be able to download course materials after enrolling in this course. If not, all of the necessary course materials provided by the course instructor will be available on the provider's course page.
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