Sjuksköterskan och den substansmissbrukande patienten ur ett vårdetiskt perspektiv : En litteraturöversikt

Sammanfattning: Background: The patient with a substance abuse often felt ignored and mistrusted in the caring relation with the nurse. To recreate and maintain the patient´s dignity in the caring relation the nurse needs to create a relationship that is characterized by togetherness. Aim: To illustrate the nurse’s experiences of treating patients with a substance abuse in the somatic health care. Method: To illustrate the contemporary state of knowledge related to the aim the authors carried out a literature review. The findings are based on ten scientific articles published during the last ten years. The articles where collected from the databases Cinahl Complete and Pubmed.  Results: The findings are presented in five themes; Mistrust mainly covered the nurses perceived difficulties to find trust in the patients self valuation of pain and information about taken substances; Fear that brought up how the nurses feeling of insecurity related to the patients actions; Feeling of being manipulated that described how the nurses perceived that the patient in a deceitful way tried to turn things into their own advantage in the caring relationship; The patients responsibility described how the nurses perceived that the abusing patients didn’t take responsibility for their own health; Ignorance where the nurses described how they feel that they lack of adequate education and knowledge to provide good care for patients with substance abuse. Discussion: Both the nurse´s and the patient´s dignity is affected in the caring relationship.  Insecurity, lack of knowledge and trust creates patterns that make both parties act in ways that damages their own and the others dignity either knowingly or subconsciously.