Interning at an Addiction Rehab Facility

Interning at an Addiction Rehab Facility

Strategies of Care within Addiction Rehab Facilities

There is no other time that one needs help more than when in the context of facing a drug addiction. It is important than our modern facilities be able to incorporate viable strategies for patients and addicts who need real results the most. Working within a drug rehab context, it is important to see how important strategies of applied research are in finding methods that are actually effective in treating the myriad of different signs and symptoms the disease of addiction has within the individual case loads.

In a number of health organizations operating today, one of the most fail safe methods of collecting research and data is through a more qualitative approach. This is often difficult because it is not as fail safe as more quantitative measures, such as forcing patients to take drugs tests or using doctor and physician ratings to set individual patient bios and moods. Using a more qualitative approach is often more difficult to gauge, but is often effective within the context of individual cases. Qualitative methods of data collection could include the more informal methods of interviewing between staff and patients. Staff can gain access to patient feelings and mood statuses through informal interview techniques. This is often less likely to provide clear cut statistical benefits in terms of how the patient's mind set is on paper; however, there are clear benefits to how this more informal method of applied research can be used to benefit the overall treatment strategies for the patient's care regiment. Such methods of data collection can gather patient drug behaviors and drug habits in a way that more quantitative research data mining methods would fail to produce with such efficiency. Often times, such qualitative data measurements are conducted by a number of staff present within are facilities for individuals with drug addictions. This means that nursing staff can play a larger role in collecting and analyzing data than in other contexts, where physicians must be present to perform more quantitative methods of data collection and analysis. Within this context, data is being used within a qualitative capacity to help provide strength for larger underlying assertions about how the patient should have their drug treatment regiment outlined. Interviewing methods can help provide clear insight into drug patterns and behaviors of patients that will help care providers best provide for the scenarios of withdrawal and post care. Qualitative interviews can help care professionals adopt the best post care regiments and help patients transition back into the fold of regular life after undergoing drug treatment. Thus, data is being used within the capacity of influencing care strategies to provide the most effective care plan for individual patients with much different drug and addiction histories. According to Sullivan's approach to applied research, this is implementing many steps of applied research in that it is relying on critical thinking on the ground floor of care strategies. Critical thinking can help adjust care strategies without lengthy adjustments to care strategies that would require more formal methods of data observation and recording.