Educational Program on Nursing Care and Drug Abuse Prevention

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• Educational Program on Nursing Care and
  Drug Abuse Prevention
• Case Study
• School of Nursing Medical Faculty
• National University of Cordoba. Cordoba-Argentina
• V Meeting of the Group of Experts in Demand
  Reduction
• Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 2003

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Background

• November 1997 School joins the CICAD/OAS
  Project
• November 1997-1999
• Phase I (Steps I, II,
  III)
• 2000- July 2003
• Phase II (Steps IV, V
  VI)

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PROJECT IMPACT CICAD/OAS School of Nursing
National University of Cordoba (UNC)
Curriculum Reforms
OutreachActivities
Developing Nursing Leadership
Research Studies
Training Professors, Students, and the Community
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• RESULTS

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• Undergraduate Curriculum with Drug-related Content

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• Graduate Curriculum with Drug-related Content

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Education
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Outreach
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Research
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Research in the Regional and International
Capacity Building Program
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Research Studies Produced
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Books and Visual Materials donated to the
Library
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Conclusions

• The project responded to the mission established
  in the Statute of the National University
  of Cordoba
• Academic relationships were established at the
  local,
• national and international levels.
• The issue of addiction was permanently
  incorporated as a topic of discussion in the
  school community.
• A theoretical framework was created to benefict
  the wider university community through
  outreach, teaching and research in the
  nursing field.
• The focus of outreach activities was drug abuse
  prevention.

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Conclusions

• The research (both quantitative/descriptive and
  qualitative) was conducted, respectively, 60 by
  the participants in the Capacity Building Program
  and 40 by the professors.
• The number of student-executed research studies
  rose 210.
• Leadership activities were initiated in 2002, and
  strategies were outlined for the next 3 years.
• The project was evaluated to be highly
  cost-effective.

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Recommendations

• Develop strategies to promote the sustainability
  of the project through
• PROJECT VISION To promote a healthy lifestyle
  that avoids drug abuse.
• PROJECT MISSION
• To educate nurses to be capable of promoting
  healthy lifestyles.
• To participate actively in resolving problems
  that result from addiction.
• To stimulate cooperation and social reflexion.
• To promote nursing care for people with drug
  problems, through public health promotion,
  prevention, treatment and rehabilitation.

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Recommendations

• PROJECT GOALS to be developed for the short-term
  and medium-term
• To strengthen undergraduate and graduate nursing
  curricula.
• To incorporate optional subjects into the
  curriculum.
• To create a interdisciplinary group to track
  graduate
• students.
• To set into motion inter-disciplinary and
  multi-centric research.
• To train leaders at the community level.
• To strengthen local, national and international
  relationships.
• To continue training professors at the research
  level.