The purpose of the policy is to educate new employees especially nurses at the hospital we manage on how to approach patient on smoke cessation. Eployee will be trained monthly on the importance of how prolong explosure to necontine can affect the human body and potentially our patients. Our goal is to safe lives by preventing the many health complications that smoking causes.111111111111111111111111
Responsibility: Nurses obligation is to educate, encourage, and provide support for patient who wants to quiet smoking. Educate the patient of the signs and symptoms that accompany smoke cessation before they even get started on the journey. Teach them about resources available like counsoling, therapy, and treatment to help them quiet.11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
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Ask them questions like, what do you enjoy doing the most? What are some of the things you value most as a person? Examples of things people value are family, job, carreer, or education. Use whatever information you receive to plan patient care. You also what to know if they have a child living at home, who can be a victim to their smoking habit. Sometimes spouse or family members will complain of the offensive body ordor that smoking cegarrete produces. Care has to always be patient center.1111111111111111111111
Patient conmitment: The hospital will be free from any kind of smoke during the stay of the patient. Family members or visitor may not smoke on the hospital premises. Offensive smells from cegarrettes and other necontine products will not be tolerated in the hospital. It is a safe and free zone that other patients and visitor do not have to worry about second hand smoke. Patient cannot smoke in the hospital also because of oxygen use, in which case can cause life-threatening
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We need to model healthy behaviors to our patients. If a staff does smoke, please do not engage in the act on the hospital grounds. Find a desinated smoking area that will not affect others in anyway and limit patients from seeing you during the act. Teaching, counsiling, and support will be provider for our employees who want to stop smoking; because we not only care for our patients, but for everyone. Nurses who smoke should never disclose that information to their patient, unless for positive teaching purpose. 111111111111111111111111111111111111111
Provided supplies: Necontine gum, patehes, and other necessary medical devices will be provided to help patient quiet smoking during the stay in the hospital. 15 minutes of counsoling on smoking cessation will be accessable to the patient atleast three times a week. 1111111111111111111111111111111
Therapeutic communication: nurses will listen to patient comments and concerns on smoking cessation. Questions will be answer apropriately and in a timely manner. Family memebers or caregivers will be involved if possible to increases the likeihood of patient complience. Patients need to be encouraged and ensure that queiting smoking is doable. Judging or talking sown on the patient will not be tolerated at any time during the course of
It is the nurse’s duty to provide optimal care, take the right action, and deliver quality nursing care. Professional and ethical actions promote the best possible patient outcomes.
The health consequences of smoking have become evident since early 1960s and numerous techniques to help smokers to become nonsmokers have started to develop. "The Behavioral Aspects of Smoking", a report of the Surgeon General first published in 1979 talks in detail about methods aided to assist smokers in the process of cessation. Sometimes it is very hard to decide which intervention strategy is the best and most useful because they vary from gimmicks to formal programs and clinics.
According to American Nurses Association (ANA), (2010) “the nurse promotes, advocates for and strives to protect the heath, safety and right of the patient” (p. 6). Nursing responsibilities should be acted at the highest standard and must be based on legal and ethical obligations.
Hypnotherapy is widely recognised, as a method for aiding smoking cessation, however, conflicting evidence exists regarding its efficacy. In meta analysis hypnosis proved 3 times more effective than nicotine replacement methods, and 15 times more effective than stopping without help (Schmidt and Chockalingham, 1992). Having said this, results are not always clean cut. A number of studies report a mixture of success rates i.e. 90.6% (Barber, 2001), 90% (Klager, 2004), and 80% (Crasilneck, 1990), while others report much lower rates of success at 48% (Elkins and Rajab, 2004) and 25% (Ahijevych, Yerardi and Nedilsky, 2000). Something else to consider is the variety of methods that may be adopted in order to treat smoking cessation with hypnosis, as the efficacy of these methods may also vary (Crasilneck, 1990; Barber, 2001; Spiegel, Frischholz, Fleiss and Spiegel, 1993). However, the constant variable within smoking cessation treatment is the patient. Therefore, treatment tailored towards the individual needs of the smoker needs to be considered when evaluating the best approach to therapy.
Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States and worldwide (Centers for Disease Control, 2013, World Health Organization, 2008). Tobacco cessation counseling is a vital component of any public health strategy seeking to decrease mortality, disease and costs associated with smoking. To that end, the Healthy People 2020 Tobacco Use Objectives cover three main areas: reducing tobacco use, instituting health system changes, and creating social and environmental changes (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2013). Objective TU-10 falls under the category of health system changes as it seeks to open doors for patients to make quit attempts and to pursue tobacco cessation methods by increasing tobacco cessation counseling by physicians and other health care providers.
Because you regularly smoke tobacco, which is one of the most avoidable risk factors for cancer, I wish to inform you of a research article that reveals progression toward understanding the mechanism by which tobacco smoke damages the genome, an organism’s complete set of DNA, and creates the mutations that ultimately cause cancer.
...ife. Furthermore smoker’s needs to be encouraged to quit thus it may take many attempts before victims can quit completely. However, good communication with smokers needs careful discussion to reduce the risk of earlier failure problems facing quitting. If nurses can make it their duty by reaching out to each of their patients about quitting smoking, then this would go a long wait in reaching a lot of people even if they don’t want to. There is already smoke free policy in the UK which is working and hopefully will still help in the reduction of smoking con gumption. It is important the government do more of anti-smoking campaigns to reach out to the manual and routine group and make follow up in regards to quitting completely. Furthermore, they need to increase tax rates on tobacco and put an end to shops that still advertising cigarette smoking in their shops
Smoking cigarettes is a detrimental practice not only to the smoker, but also to everyone around the smoker. According to an article from the American Lung Association, “Health Effects” (n.d.), “Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the U.S., causing over 438,000 deaths per year”. The umbrella term for tobacco use includes the use of cigarettes, cigars, e-cigs and chewing tobacco. While tobacco causes adverse health consequences, it also has been a unifying factor for change in public health. While the tobacco industries targets specific populations, public health specifically targets smokers, possible smokers, and the public to influence cessation, policies and education.
Smoking is a lifestyle, a habit, and a trend. Smoking has become a social activity among teens, connecting them through the craving of a smoke. Smoking is seen as seductive and cool in the media and movies which influences teenagers to smoke even more. The World Health Organization has stated that “Tobacco kills around 6 million people each year. More than 5 million of those deaths are the result of direct tobacco use while more than 600,000 are the result of non-smokers being exposed to second-hand smoke.” As of April 2016, only 7% of teenagers in the U.S. smoke, but it is said that tobacco use will kill 8 million people annually by 2030. 99% of adult smokers start in their years as teenagers. Smoking is an epidemic that has taken control of people’s lives since 1881 and the media since the early 1900s. Smoking currently kills about 440,000 people a year in the U.S. I feel that it is an issue because it is the #1 most preventable way to die, but people still continue to smoke because of how it looks and how they are perceived as a person if they do. The fact that people become addicted to a trend that will attribute to their death for the sake of being thought of as cooler, is a problem that needs to be addressed.
Secondhand smoke, we have all heard of it and know at least one person that smokes. Throughout the history of smoking, many researchers have found that secondhand smoke is more dangerous than the actual smoking of cigarettes. Many people know that there are dangers to smoking and secondhand smoke, but many tend to avoid the advice given to them. Secondhand smoke is very harmful to people of all ages. It destroys the inside and outside of one’s body. Secondhand smoke is not only dangerous indoors but as well as outdoors. On average every year there are many death results found. As humans should want to live a healthier life and come together to prevent smoking in the future.
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Ripley-Moffitt, C., Viera, A. J., Goldstein, A. O., Steiner, J. B., & Kramer, K. D. (2010). Influence of a Tobacco-Free Hospital Campus Policy on Smoking Status of Hospital Employees. American Journal of Health Promotion, 25(1), e25-e28.
Goal: I want to persuade my audience that smoking is a health risk to all of society and that smokers should be encouraged to quit.
No smoking or eating should be permitted in the food preparation area at any time. If smoking is permitted in the storeroom, sufficient ashtrays should be provided and individual smoking must wash his/her hands each time he returns to the food preparation area.
Though smoking in hospitals is currently not permissible, the possibility to allow smoking may be brought up; therefore, the inconveniences of cigarette butt littering and smokers gathering at entrances to smoke, along with the dangers of third hand nicotine contamination should reinforce this policy to stay in effect.