title: The impaired nurse: identification and intervention.
abstract: This paper explores the issue of impaired nurses' risk to patients, employers, health care delivery systems and themselves. Mood or mind altering substances inhibit the ability to function effectively by seriously impairing the nurse's judgment. Nursing managers and/or supervisors need skills to identify the impaired nurse and to be effective in intervention strategies.
authors.forename: E E
authors.initials: EE
authors.lastname: Perry
mesh_terms: D000437:Alcoholism / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D009726:Nurses; D011363:Professional Impairment