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- Title
Smoke-free hospital site conversations: how nurses can initiate change.
- Authors
Mackereth, Peter; Finchett, Charlotte; Holt, Melody
- Abstract
Smoking tobacco continues to be the world’s most preventable cause of death and disability with over six trillion cigarettes sold each year. Patients, visitors and health professionals who smoke on hospital sites present a challenge to the effectiveness of public health messages. Health professionals who ignore ‘No smoking’ hospital/clinic signage, and avoid smoking-cessation activity, help to sustain the perception that smoking is tolerated. Case studies, with a focus on lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), are used to illustrate how nurses can ‘seed’ the idea of hospitals becoming smoke-free, provide brief interventions and support patients, carers and colleagues to make that change.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; SMOKING in the workplace; NURSES; HOSPITAL administration; SMOKING policy; LUNG cancer -- Case studies; SMOKING cessation; NONSMOKING areas in public buildings; CHANGE management; HEALTH facility administration; HOSPITAL patients; SMOKING; OCCUPATIONAL roles
- Publication
British Journal of Nursing, 2016, Vol 25, Issue 21, p1176
- ISSN
0966-0461
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.12968/bjon.2016.25.21.1176