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Nursing Students' Attitudes Toward Women With Maternal Substance Use Disorders
The Journal of Nursing Education
|October 10, 2024
Summary
Nursing students often hold stigmatizing views toward mothers with substance use disorders (SUD) and express concern for their infants. Educational strategies are needed to address these biases in future nurses.
Area of Science:
- Nursing Education
- Addiction Studies
- Maternal Health
Background:
- Maternal substance use disorders (SUD) create challenges in nurse-patient relationships.
- Nurses report biased attitudes toward women with SUD, potentially impacting care.
- Limited understanding exists regarding nursing students' perceptions of mothers with SUD and their infants.
Purpose of the Study:
- To explore nursing students' attitudes toward women with substance use disorders (SUD).
- To identify perceptions that can inform educational strategies for nursing students.
Main Methods:
- Inductive content analysis of 76 reflection papers.
- Data collected from nursing students at a midwestern university.
Main Results:
- Identified three key themes: stigma toward women with SUD, infant concerns (neonatal abstinence syndrome), and the impact of clinical experiences on attitudes.
- Nursing students' attitudes are influenced by their clinical encounters.
Conclusions:
- Nursing students require enhanced evidence-based guidance on managing personal biases.
- There is a need to address biases among nurses in maternity settings.
- Educational interventions should target the development of unbiased care for mothers with SUD.
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