Impaired: A Nurse's Story of Addiction and Recovery - Hardcover

Holloran, Patricia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1427798621 ISBN 13: 9781427798626

Publisher: Kaplan Trade, 2009

Synopsis

On June 28, 1996, Patricia Holloran's life changed forever when Drug Control confronted her for the theft of narcotics from the hospital where she worked. So begins a journey that will change everything about what she knows about herself and the world of addiction.

As a nurse in a labor and delivery unit, Holloran was working full time on the night shift and taking care of her three children, her husband, and her severely disabled father. She started to take Stadol, a narcotic ten times stronger than morphine, to help her sleep. She kept taking it because she could not stop.

Putting a face on addiction and recovery, and the taboo subject of healthcare worker abuse, Impaired takes readers on Holloran's journey to fight for her sobriety, her nursing license, her marriage, and ultimately, to help other nurses and healthcare workers who suffer from addiction.

About this title

About the Author

Patricia Holloran, RN, has been a nurse for more than 30 years. She has served as Chairperson of the Recovering Nurse Community of Connecticut, a committee that oversees the anonymous support group, Nurses for Nurses. She speaks regularly about issues of addiction as a guest lecturer for various levels of nursing education and at conventions. She lives with her husband in Connecticut, and has three grown sons.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kaplan Trade
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1427798621
• ISBN 13: 9781427798626
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352