FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME: DESIGNING AND IMPLEMENTING A TRAINING PROGRAM FOR TEACHING NURSING STUDENTS AND OTHER HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS TO UNDERSTAND THE IMPACT OF ALCOHOL USE DURING PREGNANCY ON FETAL DEVELOPMENT.
Contributors: Union Institute (U.S.)
Published: 1993
Number of pages: 80
Subjects: Education, Early Childhood.; Education, Health.; Education, Educational Psychology.; Health Sciences, Education.; Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: The purpose of the project was to address the need for training sessions to be delivered to nursing students in a teaching hospital setting. A survey of nursing students, as well as a review of the literature, verified this need. Nursing programs all too often exclude fetal training. This projects describes my promotion of fetal alcohol training in the hospital.

My goals were to establish a fetal alcohol training program for nursing students with the following objectives: (A) To evaluate nursing students' knowledge of the risks of maternal drinking during pregnancy, (B) To help nursing students learn to identify the criteria for diagnosis of fetal alcohol, (C) To train nursing students to administer and interpret alcohol screening questionnaires, (D) To help nursing students in acquiring a basic understanding of techniques for counseling women with drinking problems, and (E) To educate nurses and healthcare professionals to effectively assess patients who abuse alcohol.

The training program included seven modules. Each of the modules addressed a specific topic. The topics were: (A) Attitudes toward patients affected by substance abuse or dependence, (B) Criteria for diagnosis of fetal alcohol syndrome, (C) Symptoms of fetal alcohol syndrome, (D) Alcohol screening tools, (E) Risks of drinking during pregnancy, (F) Information regarding treatment of mothers during pregnancy, and (G) Evaluating patients for substance abuse.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 55-01, Section: A, page: 0041.

Thesis (PH.D.)--THE UNION INSTITUTE, 1993.

School code: 1033.