Dana Murphy-Parker, MS, PMHNP-BC, CARN-AP, FIAAN
Ms Murphy-Parker is an ANCC Certified Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, and a Certified Addictions Registered Nurse – AP (Advanced Practice). Ms. Murphy-Parker is the Past President of the International Nurses Society on Addictions (IntNSA) serving in that role from October 2014 – 2016. As a Fellow in the International Academy of Addictions Nursing (IAAN), she is currently President of the FIAANs, and has been in that position since February 2019. Her area of expertise is in the practice of mental health and addictions nursing. Ms. Murphy-Parker has 19 years of experience as faculty in both undergraduate and graduate nursing programs. Ms. Murphy-Parker currently works full time in a community mental health clinic in Western Colorado with persons who have co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. In October 2020, Ms. Murphy-Parker was again elected as President-Elect of IntNSA, and is the only past president of IntNSA who has been elected into that position for a second time. She will take on that role again in October, 2022.
According to the World Drug Report (2021) about 275 million people worldwide use drugs and over thirty-six million people suffer from drug use disorders. Alcohol, illicit drugs, and tobacco smoking collectively kill 11.8 million people each year around the globe which is more than the number of deaths caused by cancers worldwide. These findings make it clear that the international community needs to step up its responses to understand and confront these challenges and provide valid treatments for those with addiction.
The International Nurses Society on Addictions (IntNSA), an specialist affiliate of the International Council of Nurses (ICN), seeks to leverage the role of nurses as a key professional as part of the response framework. In an effort to examine the pandemic concerns of substances that have raised the massive alarms and harms of addiction, members of IntNSA, representing Australia, Brazil, Canada, England, Portugal, S. Africa, and the United States, will come together to discuss and present specifics within their respective countries regarding addictions. Panel members will share specific roles and interventions that nurses are engaged in in their respective countries, and their experience of what helps when it comes to substance use disorders.
Learning objectives :
Short presentations (15mins) by each panel member on the following:
Australia: Medically supervised injection clinics.
Brazil: The clinical practicum in addiction treatment facilities as a strategy to positively influence nursing students' attitudes and knowledge related to AUD
Canada: The nurse’s role in rapid access addiction medicine clinics.
England/UK: The relationship of infectious diseases and treatments of these in relationship with addictions.
Portugal: Harm reduction concepts in Portugal.
S. Africa: The need for addiction training and education of nurses encountering the health needs of patients with substance use disorders.
USA: Medicated Assisted Treatment (MAT); the role of psychopharmacology in addictions treatment.