Welsh Smoking Intervention Study

Communication is very important within health and social settings as it allows information to be understood clearing, reducing misinterpretations. This therefore can lead to the growth and development of the practice within health and social care.

Being in need of medical care can often be a stressful or anxious time for a patient. These feelings can be exacerbated if the patient feels intimidated by the healthcare professionals that are caring for them. Causes for such feelings can range from fear of negative judgements if a patient admits to tobacco use to lack of understanding the verbiage used by their doctor or therapist. “In the face of a poor or incomplete understanding, a patient will

There are a number of key elements that help to provide a framework that enhances truthful communication. Firstly, there is the need to develop open and honest communication from the very beginning of the patient-health professional relationship. Secondly, the health professional needs to use patient penchant as a “weigh” by asking them what they wish to know, how much they wish to know, and determining what they already know. In other words, it is a responsibility of the health professional to get a ‘feel’ for the situation, including the patients’ perception of the situation (Ashcroft, Dawson & Drape 2007).

Pharmacists are health care professionals that work in their communities to raise the quality of life for the patients they serve. Pharmacists have been working at Consumer Values Stores (CVS) since their first doors opened in 1963. The company has since largely expanded and has become the second largest retail-pharmacy chain in the United States with more than 8,000 store nationwide. CVS is a billion dollar company and has since changed its corporate name to CVS Health along with becoming a leader in corporate social responsibility. The chain is going to great lengths to improve public health all over the country by doing such things as ceasing the sale of cigarettes in its stores and starting a nation-wide smoking cessation program called “We’re Tobacco Free”. CVS has also partnered with MinuteClinic to operate inside some of its stores.

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To understand the current culture of smoking at Wilkes University, research about smoking among college students was analyzed, a survey was given to the University body, and a national smoke-free day was held to promote a wave of change towards a smoke-free campus culture. During the Fall 2015 semester, the well-being of Wilkes University was improved with the establishment of a smoking policy. The health problems associated with smoking are reasons why establishing policies on college campuses are necessary.It is no secret that smoking tobacco can harm nearly every organ in the body. Specifically, smoking tobacco can cause autoimmune diseases, affect bone density, harm blood cells and damage the function of the heart. It can also negatively

The available research on the safety and efficacy of e-cigarette use for smoking cessation is limited. Some consider the evidence contradictory, while others attribute negative outcomes to inappropriate study design. Some medical authorities recommend that e-cigarettes have a role in smoking cessation, and others disagree. Views of e-cigarettes' role range from on the one hand Public Health England, who recommend that stop-smoking practitioners should:- (1) advise people who want to quit to try e-cigarettes if they are not succeeding with conventional nicotine replacement therapy (NRT); and (2) advise people who cannot or do not want to quit to switch to e-cigarettes to reduce smoking-related disease to, on the other hand,

Without a smoking cessation program, 95% of those attempting to quit will fail. With the aid of a smoking cessation program, the results may change.

This is a 51 year old male who is here for his medication refill. Patient is a non-smoker with history of generalized seizer disorder. Patient denies resent event of seizer. Patient reports he is depressed but denies thoughts of suicide or homicide. Patient reports his lack of monetary resource. Patient denies chest pain, SOB, N/V/D, or fever. current pain

Active listening may offer a great deal of potential to increase the effectiveness of communication which takes within the practice, creating increased clarity and reducing the potential for misunderstandings, especially with patients who may be emotional or find communication difficult. Research by Street and Haidet (2011), looked specifically at communication between doctors and patients, and found frequent significant gap between physicians' perception of the patients' health concerns and actual beliefs and concerns, creating the potential for misunderstanding. Factors that were attributed to the problem were presumptions and communication issues between the two parties. While this research looked at doctors, other authors have extended this to different healthcare professions, applying to both patient and peer communication (Propp et al., 2010; Beam et al., 2010).

Other avenues to explore include educating oncologists and their team on psychosocial communication, enlightens them on local resources, and informs the physicians on holistic patient care. Few oncologists and their staff receive sufficient academic training in communication skills implementing methods likely to promote change, confidence, and competence. "In one recent study, 42% of physician responders reported no formal training for breaking bad news and 53% felt their ability to break bad news was good to very good while 47% reported it to be fair to poor." (Dias, 2003)

Working as a medical surgical nurse, I believe patient education is one of the most important nursing interventions and interactions a nurse can have with their patients. Understanding this, it is also very important that education is individualized to the patient’s literacy level to achieve maximize results. For this reason, I have chosen an educational handout developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (n.d.), Reasons to Quit Smoking, to complete this assignment. The handout speaks to the patient regarding reasons to quit smoking, including their health, appearance, lifestyle, and loved ones. Smoking cessation is a topic nurses encounter daily and it is one of our facilities’s

For our smoking cessation community project, we will be using the Orem Self-Care Deficit Theory which was developed by Dorothea Orem to improve the quality of nursing in general. The goal is to guide and improve the practice of nursing which must be consistent with other validated theories, laws and principles. The theory of self-care is a practice of activities that an individual, like in our case the cigarette or tobacco smoker to initiate or perform in his or her own behalf to maintain a healthy well-being. This includes stopping smoking by using different available resources and a therapeutic self-care demand to be performed over a specific duration to meet the self-care

Through education campaigns and research, more individuals are aware of the health consequences of tobacco use. This has influenced more smokers to quit; thus, increasing the need for smoking cessation programs. Therefore, providing quality services and support is essential for smokers to achieve a smoke-free lifestyle. However, this first requires an understanding of the management and budgeting requirements needed to operate a successful cessation program. This project will analyze how the administrative efforts behind a smoking cessation program affects its programming, accessibility, and continuation. The student will focus on analyzing how the allocation of funds, coordination of community events, promotion of services, and public education contribute to the participant’s success rates in becoming tobacco free.

-The client made aware that it is not necessary to cease smoking before starting treatment