Nurses With Substance Use Disorder: Promoting Successful Treatment and Reentry, 10 Years Later

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This article is an update to the original article “Nurses With Chemical Dependency: Promoting Successful Treatment and Reentry” published 10 years ago in the Journal of Nursing Regulation. The article draws on nearly 40 years of experience of working with healthcare professionals with substance use disorder (SUD) and dual diagnoses across the United States. This updated article documents what has changed and what has stayed the same over the past decade in the successful identification, treatment, reentry, and aftercare of nurses with SUD. This article is an update to the original article “Nurses With Chemical Dependency: Promoting Successful Treatment and Reentry” published 10 years ago in the Journal of Nursing Regulation. The article draws on nearly 40 years of experience of working with healthcare professionals with substance use disorder (SUD) and dual diagnoses across the United States. This updated article documents what has changed and what has stayed the same over the past decade in the successful identification, treatment, reentry, and aftercare of nurses with SUD. Kathy Bettinardi-Angres, APN-BC, MS, RN, CADC, is the Professional Assessment Coordinator/MCAP of Chicago, Positive Sobriety Institute, Chicago, Illinois, and Adjunct Faculty, Rush University Department of Nursing, Chicago, Illinois. Conflict of Interest Compliance Article 6Journal of Nursing Regulation Vol. 12Issue 2PreviewAs is standard in scholarly publishing, NCSBN’s Journal of Nursing Regulation (JNR) requires its authors to disclose any potential conflicts of interest (COI). Although COI information has always been collected by our staff in order to support editors’ review of the paper, it was not our standard practice to publish COI statements in each article. In this issue, JNR is retrospectively publishing the COI statements, which were collected with the below papers at submission, in order to make potential COI’s transparent to readers, as well as editors. Full-Text PDF