Background: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has funded grants to universities to provide training and conduct research on the dissemination of Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) to health care professionals. However, when it comes to integrating SBIRT content into an existing curriculum, difficulties can arise. When there is so much content already in the curriculum, adding more can be challenging. Additionally, some faculty believe that course curricula should be driven by the expertise and knowledge of faculty, not by opportunities afforded because of grant funding.
Methods: Using qualitative semi-structured faculty interviews and thematic data analysis, this study explored the process and content issues surrounding the integration of SBIRT content into the Masters of Social Work (MSW) and Masters of Science in Nursing (MSN) curricula at one university.
Results: Guidelines for the successful integration of SBIRT content into MSW and MSN curricula fall into two thematic areas: 1. Encourage buy-in and ownership of SBIRT curriculum development by current faculty. 2. Use a scaffolded approach. SBIRT includes several unique content areas which should be integrated per competencies addressed in each course. SBIRT content areas lend themselves to integration into a range of courses, employing an array of learning techniques and teaching materials. Scaffolding content requires creativity, which serves as the basis of the six subthemes that guide a scaffolded SBIRT integration approach.
Conclusions: SBIRT offers an evidence based intervention that uses a public health approach to reduce harm from substance use. As such, professional nursing and social work education programs should teach SBIRT to their master's level practitioners. This paper proposes guidelines for integrating that content into existing curricula.
Download full-text PDF |
Source |
|---|---|
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08897077.2017.1377672 | DOI Listing |
Publication Analysis
Top Keywords
Similar Publications
Integrating Evidence-Based Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment Into a Family Nurse Practitioner Program.
J Addict Nurs
October 2024
Kelly Fetterhoff, DNP, CRNP, PMHNP-BC, CARN-AP, Kelly Kuhns PhD, RN, CNE, and Cayleigh Minter, DNP, CRNP, FNP, Millersville University, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Problem Statement: Substance use disorder (SUD)-and more specifically opioid use disorder-is a national epidemic. With the increasing amounts of people suffering from SUD, all healthcare professionals should be educated to identify substance abuse, provide a brief intervention, and refer patients for treatment when indicated.
Purpose: The purpose of this project is to integrate the SBIRT into the curriculum of a graduate-level family nurse practitioner (FNP) program in southeastern Pennsylvania and to determine if educating FNP students on the SBIRT process increases their knowledge of SUDs and their treatment and increases their motivation to work with patients with SUD.
Implementation of a novel daily performance improvement checklist (PIC) improves alcohol screening and intervention compliance in trauma.
Trauma Surg Acute Care Open
September 2024
Surgery, Division of Acute Care Surgery, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.
Introduction: Screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) has demonstrated up to 50% reduction in alcohol-related traumatic injury and is mandated by the American College of Surgeons for trauma center accreditation. While SBIRT effectiveness has been previously investigated, optimal implementation in the trauma setting has not. We sought to improve SBIRT compliance through integration of screening into a performance improvement checklist (PIC) deployed during morning report.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The United States Preventive Services Task Force recommends annual alcohol screening and brief behavioral intervention (alcohol SBI) with general adult and pregnant populations. Implementation of alcohol SBI in primary care has encountered numerous barriers to adapting procedures and infrastructure to support its routine delivery. This collection of case studies describes the implementation strategies used by 4 academic health system teams that were funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to implement alcohol SBI within healthcare systems to prevent alcohol-exposed pregnancies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCharacterization of peer support services for substance use disorders in 11 US emergency departments in 2020: findings from a NIDA clinical trials network site selection process.
Addict Sci Clin Pract
April 2024
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA.
Introduction: Emergency departments (ED) are incorporating Peer Support Specialists (PSSs) to help with patient care for substance use disorders (SUDs). Despite rapid growth in this area, little is published regarding workflow, expectations of the peer role, and core components of the PSS intervention. This study describes these elements in a national sample of ED-based peer support intervention programs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWeb-Based Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment for Traumatic Stress and Alcohol Misuse Among Survivors of Sexual Assault and Intimate Partner Violence: Usability and Acceptability Study.
JMIR Form Res
February 2024
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, United States.
Background: Recent survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) and sexual assault (SA) are at a high risk for traumatic stress and alcohol misuse. IPV and SA survivors face barriers to services for traumatic stress and alcohol misuse and have low service utilization rates. One way to increase access to services for this population is the use of web-based screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT), an evidence-informed approach for early identification of traumatic stress and alcohol and drug misuse and connecting individuals to treatment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWant AI Summaries of new PubMed Abstracts delivered to your In-box?
Enter search terms and have AI summaries delivered each week - change queries or unsubscribe any time!