PROVIDING COMPREHENSIVE CARE FREE OF JUDGEMENT
As providers of women's healht care'it is nurses'ethical and professional responsibility to provide comprehensive care to pregnant women affected by substance abuse. The american Nurse Association (ANA, 2010) code of ethics Provision 1 states that, 'The nurse,in all professional relationships practices with compassion and respect for the inherent dignity,worth, and uniqueness, of every individual unrestricted by considerations of social or economic status, personal attributes, or the nature of health problems.' All nurse, regardless of their beliefs about perinatal addiction, must provide nonjudgmental compassionate care that is person-centered. French(2013) reported that when women with substance abuse were laboring they wanted the nurse to here them and respon to their concern, to keep them save and be wiht them and get to know them personally. It's critical that nurses initiate self-and peer-education about the latest evidence-based guidelines on perinatal addiction and NAS to improve the care of their patients and to disseminate information to the members of the interdisciplinary health care team (Hudak et al.,2012).