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Gaining insite: harm reduction in nursing practice.

Beverly Lightfoot¹, Ciro Panessa, Sargent Hayden

¹Insite, Vancouver, British Columbia.

The Canadian Nurse

|May 14, 2009

Summary

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Supervised injection sites like Insite improve health for people who use injection drugs by increasing treatment referrals and preventing overdose deaths. Nursing at these facilities aligns with professional standards and harm reduction principles.

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Area of Science:

Public Health
Nursing Practice
Harm Reduction

Background:

Vancouver's Downtown Eastside faces a severe health and social crisis related to injection drug use.
Supervised injection sites are an evidence-based intervention to address this crisis.

Purpose of the Study:

To describe nursing practice at Insite, a supervised injection facility.
To evaluate the alignment of Insite's nursing practice with professional and ethical standards.

Main Methods:

Qualitative description of nursing roles and activities within Insite.
Analysis of nursing practice against standards set by regulatory bodies and international guidelines.

Main Results:

Insite's services demonstrably increase treatment referrals.
The facility mitigates the spread of blood-borne diseases and prevents overdose fatalities.
Nursing at Insite builds trusting client relationships and provides health services in a harm reduction context.

Conclusions:

Nursing practice at Insite is consistent with professional and ethical standards for registered nurses.
Harm reduction principles, as practiced at Insite, align with guidelines from the College of Registered Nurses of British Columbia, Canadian Nurses Association, and WHO.