Holloway Aisha S, Webster Brian J
School of Health in Social Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, The Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, UK.
Nurse Educ Today. 2013 Sep;33(9):992-7. doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2012.10.011. Epub 2012 Nov 13.
Alcohol-related harm impacts significantly on the health of the population. Nurses are often among the first health professionals that many patients with alcohol-related problems come into contact with and have been identified as playing a key role but may be ill-prepared to respond. Future nurses need to have the skills, knowledge and clinical confidence to respond to patients suffering from alcohol-related harm. A pre-registration curriculum that ensures a nursing workforce fit for practice in responding to alcohol-related harm is necessary.
To determine the level of alcohol education and training content in the pre-registration curriculum for nursing in the United Kingdom (UK). To establish whether there are variations in the pre-registration curriculum content across the UK.
A descriptive study.
All 68 UK Higher Education Institutions offering a total of 111 pre-registration courses for nurses were invited to participate in the study.
Twenty nine completed questionnaires were returned, a response rate of 26%. The largest number of identified responders were from England (n=15), with 3 from Scotland and 1 each from Wales and Northern Ireland. Nine Universities chose not to identify themselves.
An online semi-structured questionnaire survey was used to collect the study data.
Teaching of alcohol and alcohol related harm was mainly delivered during the second year of a pre-registration nursing programme provided mainly to adult and mental health students. Overall, the majority of alcohol related content that is provided within the responding pre-registration nursing courses relates to biophysiology, aetiology, and pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions.
This study highlights the need for a greater and more relevant focus of alcohol education to pre-registration nursing students of all fields of practice incorporating an integrated approach across all years of study.
酒精相关危害对人群健康有重大影响。护士往往是许多有酒精相关问题的患者最先接触到的医疗专业人员之一，并且已被认定发挥关键作用，但可能没有充分准备好应对。未来的护士需要具备应对酒精相关危害患者的技能、知识和临床信心。确保护理人员队伍能够胜任应对酒精相关危害的预注册课程是必要的。
确定英国护理预注册课程中的酒精教育和培训内容水平。确定英国各地预注册课程内容是否存在差异。
描述性研究。
邀请了英国所有提供共计111门护士预注册课程的68所高等教育机构参与研究。
共返回29份完整问卷，回复率为26%。确定的回复者中人数最多的来自英格兰（n = 15），3人来自苏格兰，威尔士和北爱尔兰各1人。9所大学选择不表明身份。
使用在线半结构化问卷调查收集研究数据。
酒精及酒精相关危害的教学主要在预注册护理课程的第二年进行，主要面向成人和心理健康专业的学生。总体而言，回复的预注册护理课程中提供的大多数酒精相关内容涉及生物生理学、病因学以及药物和非药物干预。
本研究强调需要对所有实践领域的预注册护理学生加强酒精教育，并使其更具相关性，采用贯穿所有学年的综合方法。
