Jess Sears has saved a lot of lives since she started working in homelessness services.
The Depaul clinical nurse manager has injected people suffering from overdose with the drug Naloxone on many occasions.
“My first time was when I was working in a drug service in the north inner city where we would often have staff outside the toilets because that could be an area where someone is injecting,” said Sears.
“When someone becomes unresponsive we’ll need to take off the door, make sure the scene is safe and remove that person to a safe environment and check on them.”
Naloxone is a medication that rapidly reverses and restores the breathing of a person overdosing from heroin or prescription opioid pain medications.
“It’s very, very easy to administer you just put the person in the recovery position. Luckily this person hadn’t stopped breathing,” said Sears.
Source: Cormac Fitzgerald, The Journal.ie, 19/02/18
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