Smoking Cessation
A Review of Smoking Cessation Education and Implementation for Nurses
A Review of Smoking Cessation Education and Implementation for Nurses There are so many different facets of nursing. Nurses are given so many tools to utilize in our role of educator to patients. It has to be kept in mind that we are doing this with our patients continuously. Every time a task is completed with patients and it is explained what is being doing, teaching is being conducted and hopefully they will take that with them in the future. Nurses need to be adequately equipped with the tools needed to teach patients. Without proper education, how are nurses expected to pass on knowledge.
The article that I am choosing is Nursing students ' response to tobacco cessation curricula in Minnesota baccalaureate nursing programs. The article is by Lenz BK. The article is about smoking cessation education for nursing students. They are trying to see if they can ensure if registered nurses that are coming into the work force have the tools needed to give evidence-based smoking cessation interventions to clients and if this can significantly bring the number of smokers who receive these interventions and treatments up, in other words, they are trying to decide if nurses that are given the education and the tools necessary to promote smoking cessation in their clients, the information is actually sticking with them and they are actually applying the information clinically to patients who smoke and could use the interventions due to their own self efficacy issues. There were 10 classes tested and 2 of them were given all the education and tools and showed that in the end they were much more knowledgeable about the smoking cessation interventions and 8 classes did not get all of the information and had inadequate teaching. They were therefore less knowledgeable when tested. Even with the education the 2 classes got
A Review of Smoking Cessation Education and Implementation for Nurses There are so many different facets of nursing. Nurses are given so many tools to utilize in our role of educator to patients. It has to be kept in mind that we are doing this with our patients continuously. Every time a task is completed with patients and it is explained what is being doing, teaching is being conducted and hopefully they will take that with them in the future. Nurses need to be adequately equipped with the tools needed to teach patients. Without proper education, how are nurses expected to pass on knowledge.
The article that I am choosing is Nursing students ' response to tobacco cessation curricula in Minnesota baccalaureate nursing programs. The article is by Lenz BK. The article is about smoking cessation education for nursing students. They are trying to see if they can ensure if registered nurses that are coming into the work force have the tools needed to give evidence-based smoking cessation interventions to clients and if this can significantly bring the number of smokers who receive these interventions and treatments up, in other words, they are trying to decide if nurses that are given the education and the tools necessary to promote smoking cessation in their clients, the information is actually sticking with them and they are actually applying the information clinically to patients who smoke and could use the interventions due to their own self efficacy issues. There were 10 classes tested and 2 of them were given all the education and tools and showed that in the end they were much more knowledgeable about the smoking cessation interventions and 8 classes did not get all of the information and had inadequate teaching. They were therefore less knowledgeable when tested. Even with the education the 2 classes got
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