Inhalant Use Disorder
Author: Dana Bartlett, BSN, MSN, MA, CSPI
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Dana Bartlett, BSN, MSN, MA, CSPI
Dana Bartlett is a professional nurse and author. His clinical experience includes 16 years of ICU and ER experience and over 20 years of as a poison control center information specialist. Dana has published numerous CE and journal articles, written NCLEX material, written textbook chapters, and done editing and reviewing for publishers such as Elsevier, Lippincott, and Thieme. He has written widely on the subject of toxicology and was recently named a contributing editor, toxicology section, for Critical Care Nurse journal. He is currently employed at the Connecticut Poison Control Center and is actively involved in lecturing and mentoring nurses, emergency medical residents and pharmacy students.
CE:
2.5
hours
Pharmacology: 0.5 hour
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South Carolina Information
Pharmacotherapeutics Credits: 0.5
Related to prescribing controlled substances: 0
Course Summary
An inhalant use disorder is diagnosed according to criteria of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) and includes use of traditional categories of inhalants, such as aerosols, gases, nitrites, and solvents. Inhalants are often used to describe volatile substances that the user inhales for a psychoactive effect. Chemicals misused as inhalants are often found in various household products that some United States jurisdictions have started to regulate. Identification and treatment of an inhalant use disorder requires partnership with professionals and community support persons. Inhalant use disorders require a unique approach by all members of the interdisciplinary health team to raise awareness of the risk, prevention, and available treatment of an addiction to solvents.
Course Format
Homestudy
Course Syllabus
- Introduction
- Problems And Solvents Commonly Used
- Pharmacology
- How Solvents Can Lead To A Solvent Use Disorder
- Diagnosis Of An Inhalant Use Disorder
- Primary Acute Clinical Effects
- Assessment For Inhalant Intoxication
- Chronic Clinical Effects
- Caring For An Individual With An Inhalant Use Disorder
- The Basics Of Acute Care
- Summary