Ketamine as a therapeutic option, artificial intelligence and the nursing workforce, naloxone training and other highlights from the March issue

The March issue With ALL is live now.

Here are some highlights. Some articles are publicly available or temporarily free; others would require you to log in to access.

This month editorial, “A turning point in psychiatry” ALLThe magazine’s editor-in-chief, Carl Kirton, discusses key features of the present mental health crisis and explores whether a paradigm shift toward faster treatment with drugs like ketamine and MDMA could be visible to at the least a percentage of those in need (the editorial is at all times free). Kirton writes:

“The promise of ketamine therapy is not that it will ‘replace’ everything else, but it may signal a broader inflection point: psychiatry will move away from slow-onset, monoamine-focused therapies toward interventions aimed at rapidly relieving symptoms.”

Additionally, the CE article (CE articles are free) within the March issue reviews the present evidence on the subject ketamine as a mental health treatment. Discussing using ketamine within the treatment of treatment-resistant depression, the authors write:

This article provides “a foundation of clinical information that nurses should understand when counseling patients taking or interested in using ketamine” and discusses “the regulatory, ethical, and nursing implications of using ketamine in the treatment of mental health disorders.”

The Point of view on this issue “Artificial intelligence won’t solve the staffing crisis – secure employment rates will” writes Cathy Kennedy, PhD, BSN, RN, president of National Nurses United. Kennedy argues that nurses needs to be open to the advantages of recent technologies equivalent to artificial intelligence, but mustn’t simply accept it blindly if it undermines the autonomy of the nursing role.

The original research the article on this issue is “Naloxone training amongst college-affiliated college students: An observational study” According to the authors:

This progressive intervention, which mixes didactic elements with hands-on learning methods, has demonstrated improvements in opioid knowledge, opioid toxicity, and opioid overdose responses amongst students at affiliated universities.

in ours Evidence-based decision making series that addresses “how to teach and facilitate learning about evidence-based practices and quality improvement processes and how they impact the quality of health care,” the March issue article is titled “Implementation: from plan to action.This article “will be helpful to DNP faculty, students, and clinical mentors and explains the conceptual basis for moving from an implementation plan to action, the need for an implementation framework to guide each step, and the actual stages of project implementation.”

in ours Reflections column “Between professionalism and pain”, a nurse reflects on the experience of insults, violence and random humiliation from patients (and sometimes colleagues) which may be hidden behind the nurse’s caring smile.

Finally, don’t miss the extensive section, and departments, and the one which concerns the role of nursing ethicists.

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