“…The ANA further stated that the phenomena of actual or potential health problems that are of concern to nurses are any observable manifestation, need, condition, concern, event, dilemma, difficulty, occurrence, or fact that can be described or scientifically explained and is within the target area of nursing practice. Nurses specializing in the area of addictions addressed the issue within the profession, and in 1983, the ANA recommended that addictions be considered a specialty area of nursing practice (Campbell, Jack, Pflum, & Veh Leiker, 1996). By 1987, a coalition of ANA, Drug and Alcohol Nurses Association (DANA), and National Nurses Society on Addictions (NNSA) members published a document entitled bThe Care of Clients with Addictions: Dimensions of Nursing PracticeQ (ANA, DANA, NNSA, 1987).…”