**5. Conclusion**

Caring for MHCUs who are diagnosed with SUD is challenging and demanding for the nurses as nurses reported that these users are untrustworthy. This leaves the nurses emotionally and physically drained. However, there is no documented literature on the nurses' coping strategies when caring for MHCUs diagnosed with SUDS, hence we strongly believe that this chapter is interesting and adds important *Nurses' Coping Strategies When Caring for Mental Health Care Users Diagnosed with Substance… DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.107034*

literature in the field of psychiatry and mental health nursing science. Further studies should be done on the coping strategies of nurses caring for MHCUs diagnosed with SUDs. These studies should follow different methodologies such as quantitative, qualitative mixed and multi-methods, or different reviews. Different reviews can be systematic, integrated, comprehensive and scoping reviews. This chapter showed that nurses need to strengthen their resilience, they also need peer and management support, multidisciplinary team (MDT) approach, open-door policy, as well as education and training to be able to cope when caring for MHCUs diagnosed with SUDs. Nurses should specifically be trained at under and postgraduate levels on the provision of quality mental health care, treatment and rehabilitation services, management of SUDs as well as dual diagnosis. It is important for NEIs to consider development of postgraduate programs on the Management of Substance Use Disorders (SUD).
