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Darch J, Baillie L, Gillison F. Nurses as role models in health promotion: a concept analysis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2017; 26:982-988. [PMID: 28956975 DOI: 10.12968/bjon.2017.26.17.982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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There are national and international expectations that nurses are healthy role models; however, there is a lack of clarity about what this concept means. This study used concept analysis methodology to provide theoretical clarity for the concept of role models in health promoting behaviour for registered nurses and students. The framework included analysis of literature and qualitative data from six focus groups and one interview. Participants (n=39) included pre-registration students (adult field), nurse lecturers and registered nurses (RNs), working in NHS Trusts across London and South East London. From the findings, being a role model in health promoting behaviour involves being an exemplar, portraying a healthy image (being fit and healthy), and championing health and wellness. Personal attributes of a role model in health promoting behaviour include being caring, non-judgemental, trustworthy, inspiring and motivating, self-caring, knowledgeable and self-confident, innovative, professional and having a deep sense of self.
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- Joy Darch
- Academic Subject Lead-Nursing, University of Gloucestershire, Florence Nightingale Research Scholar
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- Senior Lecturer, Department of Health, University of Bath, Bath
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Fernández D, Ordás B, Álvarez MJ, Ordóñez C. Knowledge, attitudes and tobacco use among nursing and physiotherapy students. Int Nurs Rev 2015; 62:303-11. [PMID: 25645450 DOI: 10.1111/inr.12177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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BACKGROUND As future health educators, nursing and physiotherapy students will play an essential role in the prevention of smoking. AIM To determine the prevalence of smoking among students and to analyse their knowledge of and attitudes towards smoking. METHOD This was a descriptive cross-sectional study using an anonymous questionnaire and conducted in a Spanish Faculty of Health Sciences in 2013. FINDINGS 247 nursing and physiotherapy students (82.33%) participated in the study. The global prevalence of smoking (18.2%) was lower compare with the general population group of the same age. We have observed statistical significance in relation to previous studies. Nursing and physiotherapy students showed a low nicotine dependence. We found a lack of knowledge about the harmful effects of cigarette consumption on health. Statistically significant results were also found in relation to degree courses (p < 0.01) as regards students' opinions about their knowledge of strategies and methods to help patients stop smoking. CONCLUSION Most students started smoking before commencing their university studies; consequently, interventions should focus on cessation programmes. An analysis of university curricula leading to the award of a degree in the health sciences could serve to identify educational deficiencies in order to implement the necessary modifications. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING AND HEALTH POLICY This paper presents an update in tobacco use characteristics amongst nursing and physiotherapy students. Those results have showed a need to improve the curricula in order to develop specific programmes to improve knowledge, attitudes and beliefs. Measures to prevent smoking must be taken at school.
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- D Fernández
- Department of Nursing and Physiotherapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of León, León, Spain
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- Division of Nursing, University Hospital of León, León, Spain
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- Department of Nursing and Physiotherapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of León, León, Spain
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- Department of Toxicology, University of León, León, Spain
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Moxham L, Dwyer T, Reid-Searl K. Graduate nurses and nursing student's behaviour: knowledge and attitudes toward smoking cessation. NURSE EDUCATION TODAY 2013; 33:1143-1147. [PMID: 23273686 DOI: 10.1016/j.nedt.2012.11.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2012] [Revised: 11/26/2012] [Accepted: 11/29/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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BACKGROUND Smoking remains the largest single cause of preventable mortality. In rural Australia where the incidence of smoking is higher, health is substantially worse than other Australians. Smoking cessation is difficult with many attempts made before success. Health professionals are in a prime position to assist smoking cessation but are failing to consistently assess tobacco use and assist patients quit. Nurses who form the largest cohort of health care professionals, should play a part in smoking cessation yet their influential role is hugely underutilised. Given the strategic place of nurses to advance the anti-smoking message during clinical interactions, data was needed on smoking rates as well as on smoking attitudes and behaviours. OBJECTIVES To determine the smoking rates and behaviour as well as attitudes of nurses toward assisting hospitalised patients to cease smoking. DESIGN Descriptive survey research design. PARTICIPANTS Non-probability sampling of undergraduate nursing students (n=153) and graduate nursing students (n=64) from a regional nursing school in an Australian university. METHODS Survey. RESULTS Factor analysis revealed four clearly differentiated factors, non-smoker's rights, cessation beliefs, cessation attitudes and therapeutic relationships. Significant differences were present in nurse's perceptions of smoking rights across age categories but not for other factors, no significant gender differences were noted across categories, nor were significant differences noted between levels of nursing qualifications across categories however smoking status revealed significant differences in perceptions of rights. CONCLUSIONS Student and graduate nurses are aware that they are role models and that they have an influential role in modifying patient behaviour. When it comes to assisting patients to cease tobacco use, age and smoking status of nurses influence their actions. Nursing curriculums need to emphasise the role nurses play in smoking cessation and give them the tools they need to help patients QUIT.
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- Lorna Moxham
- School of Nursing, Midwifery and Indigenous Health, University of Wollongong, Springfield Ave, Wollongong, NSW 2500, Australia.
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Connolly M, Floyd S, Forrest R, Marshall B. Mental health nurses' beliefs about smoking by mental health facility inpatients. Int J Ment Health Nurs 2013; 22:288-93. [PMID: 22897708 DOI: 10.1111/j.1447-0349.2012.00871.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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This study examined beliefs of mental health nurses about smoking by clients, nurses, and visitors in inpatient facilities and identified the influence of years of experience, smoke-free status, and workplace on these beliefs. Data were collected by a survey, distributed via a nursing newsletter with approximately 600 members. Descriptive statistics and cross-tabulations explored the data. A total of 104 responses were received. Smoke-free status made significant differences to nurses' beliefs relating to prohibition of smoking for clients, staff, and visitors; concern about the effects of passive smoking; the role of smoking in the development of therapeutic relationships; smoking as a source of patient pleasure; and the role of smoking in symptom management. That half of the nurses who responded believe that smoking is helpful in the creation of therapeutic relationships is of concern. The nurse plays an important role model in promoting smoke-free lifestyles amongst clients, and the effects of positive role modelling could be lost if nurses continue to smoke with clients. The negative impacts of smoking on the physical health of mental health inpatients is considerable and well documented, and the creation of smoke-free inpatient mental health services can help to address these.
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Smoking prevalence, attitudes, and confidence about tobacco roles among Australian nursing students. J Addict Nurs 2012; 23:181-90. [PMID: 24335735 DOI: 10.1097/jan.0b013e31826f4b83] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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This study identified major challenges to be addressed before student nurses can achieve their full potential in providing effective and comprehensive smoking cessation interventions. Smoking behaviors were assessed among undergraduate nursing students. In addition, students' attitudes, confidence levels, and support for extra training in tobacco control were examined. A nonprobability sample of 381 students at an Australian university was surveyed. The consent rate was 81%. Prevalence of current smoking was 21%. In the regression analysis, age group was the only statistically significant predictor of smoking status. Over one third (36%) did not endorse the nonsmoking exemplar role of their future profession. Most (60%) did not support the concept of routine smoking cessation intervention. Students who were smokers had significantly higher tobacco control confidence levels than nonsmokers. Smoking-related variables did not differ between students in different years of the course. Improved tobacco control training is needed at undergraduate level.
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Ritchie L, Evans MK, Matthews J. Nursing Students’ and Clinical Instructors’ Perceptions on the Implementation of a Best Practice Guideline. J Nurs Educ 2010; 49:223-7. [DOI: 10.3928/01484834-20091217-08] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2008] [Accepted: 04/20/2009] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Scheckel M, Emery N, Nosek C. Addressing health literacy: the experiences of undergraduate nursing students. J Clin Nurs 2010; 19:794-802. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2009.02991.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Schultz ASH, Hossain S, Johnson JL. Modeling influences on acute care nurses' engagement in tobacco use reduction. Res Nurs Health 2009; 32:621-33. [PMID: 19731248 DOI: 10.1002/nur.20349] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Although nurses are encouraged to address patients' tobacco use, the integration of tobacco reduction into practice has not been consistent. An organizational behavior perspective was used to conceptualize hypothesized relationships among reported influencing factors (individual characteristics, role attitudes, perceived barriers, and workplace climate). Survey data collected at two Western Canadian hospitals (N = 214 nurses; 58% response) were used to test the model. The final model explained nearly 60% of variation in the nurses' tobacco reduction practice. Role attitude, perceived resource availability, co-worker's activities, and ability were the strongest contributors. Nurses' smoking status indirectly influenced practice through shaping role attitudes and perceived ability. Diverse leverage points to enhance nurses' involvement in patients' tobacco use were identified.
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- Annette S H Schultz
- Psychosocial Oncology and Cancer Nursing Research Group, Faculty of Nursing, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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Lally RM, Chalmers KI, Johnson J, Kojima M, Endo E, Suzuki S, Lai YH, Yang YH, Degner L, Anderson E, Molassiotis A. Smoking behavior and patient education practices of oncology nurses in six countries. Eur J Oncol Nurs 2008; 12:372-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejon.2008.04.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2008] [Revised: 04/25/2008] [Accepted: 04/25/2008] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Smith DR. A systematic review of tobacco smoking among nursing students. Nurse Educ Pract 2006; 7:293-302. [PMID: 17689456 DOI: 10.1016/j.nepr.2006.09.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2006] [Accepted: 09/03/2006] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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This study was conducted to systematically and critically evaluate the large number of academic publications which have investigated tobacco smoking among nursing students in recent years. It was performed as a state-of-the-art examination of all modern literature published in peer-reviewed, English-language journals since 1990. Although smoking appears to be fairly common among nursing students, its prevalence and distribution varies widely depending on the country of study and time period during which the research was undertaken. Although there is some evidence to suggest that smoking rates increase by year of study in the nursing course, not all research has shown a clear association in this regard. Similarly, the value of anti-smoking interventions for nursing students appears to be limited, based on currently available information. Given these conflicting issues, further research which helps to ascertain why student nurses do not wish to give up their habit is clearly needed both locally and internationally. The development of an international smoking questionnaire may also be useful to help standardize future research on tobacco usage among this vulnerable demographic.
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- Derek R Smith
- International Center for Research Promotion and Informatics, National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, 6-21-1 Nagao, Tama-Ku, Kawasaki 214-8585, Japan.
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AIM This paper reports a study exploring nurses' provision of opportunistic health education on smoking for hospital patients. BACKGROUND Smoking cessation guidelines recommend assessment of patients' smoking habits and provision of smoking cessation advice when possible, and highlight the importance of the role of nurses in health promotion and health education. In the past, nurses have been criticized for lack of knowledge, skills and confidence in relation to health education and the perception that it is additional to, rather than integrated with, nursing care. METHODS A qualitative case study design was selected to explore the health education practice of 12 nurses working in acute wards in three general hospitals in Scotland. Data were collected in 2000 through non-participant observation, semi-structured interviews and the use of a radio-microphone to record nurse-patient interactions. The data analysis was guided by four key elements of health education practice: 'the teachable moment', 'readiness to learn', 'the provision of health information' and 'oral communication'. FINDINGS Smoking was part of the nurses' agenda, as most recognized opportunities to introduce health education on smoking during nursing care, suggesting a tentative move towards the integration of health education with nursing care. Evidence from patients' interactions indicated ample opportunity for nurses to provide smoking-related health information. However, the content of nurses' interactions on smoking was variable, with some limited by poor communication skills and inadequate knowledge of smoking and smoking cessation. The context of the interactions was also important in understanding some of the restrictions on conversational progress. CONCLUSIONS Nurses require the knowledge and skills to perform a health education role, and the inclusion of smoking cessation guidelines in nursing curricula would contribute to this. Where patients are in hospitals for short periods of time, opportunistic health education on smoking needs to be introduced as the basis for more specialist intervention.
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- Rosemary E Whyte
- Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Caledonian Nursing and Midwifery Research Centre, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, UK.
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McCann TV, Clark E, Rowe K. Undergraduate nursing students' attitudes towards smoking health promotion. Nurs Health Sci 2005; 7:164-74. [PMID: 16083479 DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-2018.2005.00228.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Despite the fact that nurses have a key role in health promotion, many continue to smoke at much the same rate as the general population. This paper investigates the influence of smoking status, gender, age, stage of education, and smoking duration on undergraduate nursing students' attitudes towards smoking health promotion. The study took place in one university's School of Nursing in Victoria, Australia. Respondents completed the Smoking and Health Promotion instrument. Researchers obtained ethics approval prior to commencing the study. Smoking status was the main factor that affected respondents' attitudes towards smoking health promotion, with age and education stage having a minor effect, and gender and smoking duration not significant. Nurses have an important role in modeling non-smoking behaviors for patients. There needs to be consistency between personal and professional beliefs for nurses to properly engage in smoking health promotion. The findings have implications for undergraduate nursing education curricula, nursing practice and research, and these are discussed.
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- Terence V McCann
- School of Nursing and Midwifery, Victoria Institute of Health and Diversity, Victoria University, PO Box 14428, Melbourne 8001, Australia.
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BACKGROUND In 1986, the World Health Organisation's (WHO) Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion sought to create a framework that conveyed the notion of capacity building, related to specific settings, and a structured process for health promotion action. It provided the platform from which the health promoting hospital movement was later launched. Nearly two decades on, the health promoting hospital (HPH) movement has grown considerably and continues to expand, against the backdrop of having to adapt to the changing needs and demands of clients and the evolving social context of their communities. Many nurses, it is argued here, are often unaware of health promoting hospitals concepts or, when they are, do little to contribute to them. METHOD A critical review of the available health promoting hospital and related literature has been conducted for discussion. FINDINGS The literature revealed that hospitals are being urged to reject practices based purely on health-limiting and limited biomedical frameworks, in favour of moving towards models based on health promoting hospitals and public health-orientated hospitals. This requires radical reform that focuses on the social and health policy context of organizations, the socio-political empowerment of its employers and clients, and the personal/collective positive health and welfare of its employers and clients. Many health service agencies are beginning to emphasize population health within communities as part of a concerted move away from an original primary focus on acute inpatient hospital-based service provision. CONCLUSION Hospitals need to adapt and expand their efforts to focus on health promotion activities, in collaboration with the ever-widening community networks of health and social agencies. This requires the commitment of all health care professional groups. Nurses who practice in the hospital setting should be aiming to initiate and promote radical health promotion reform as set out in the health promoting hospital movement. This paper argues that nursing per se could be making much larger inroads and efforts to affect and implement wide-ranging health promotion activities in hospital organizations. Nurses should view the HPH movement as another opportunity truly to embrace evolving broad-based health promotion concepts, as a means to forge and own their own health agenda, and also as a means to move beyond the traditional reliance of a limited health education role. RELEVANCE TO CLINICAL PRACTICE Hospitals and their employees must be seen to advocate, support and implement wide-reaching social and community-based reform, as part of a necessary commitment to 'seamless' health care provision. The health promoting hospital movement represents a collective vehicle for enabling such activities. If nurses wish to be at the forefront of current health service strategies they must be seen to embrace the radical health promotion reforms that are emerging from the current literature and put forward in this article.
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- Dean Whitehead
- School of Health Sciences, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
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Baron-Epel O, Josephsohn K, Ehrenfeld M. Nursing students' perceptions of smoking prevention. NURSE EDUCATION TODAY 2004; 24:145-151. [PMID: 14769459 DOI: 10.1016/j.nedt.2003.11.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/06/2003] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Smoking behaviors of student nurses may have a profound effect on the implementation of smoking-prevention activities in the future, as they are the future nurses. The aim of the study was to evaluate the prevalence of smoking among student nurses in Israel and to identify factors associated with the students' attitude to their role in smoking prevention and to nurses as role models regarding smoking. Student nurses from three large academic schools (782 respondents) answered a self-administered questionnaire. About 22% reported being current smokers. The latter more frequently reported positive attitudes to nurses' smoking and saw no ethical problems in their smoking. Smokers also reported less frequently that nurses should be active in smoking prevention. In a logistic regression model, attitudes to nurses' role in smoking prevention, smoking status, and having friends who smoked were associated with the attitude to nurses as role models. Attitude to nurses as role models was the main variable explaining variance in attitudes to nurses' role in prevention. Smoking status and students' social environment exerted a marked influence on students' attitudes to smoking role modeling. A more holistic approach to student nurses' education about smoking prevention is called for.
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- Orna Baron-Epel
- The Cheryl Spencer Department of Nursing, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Studies, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel 31095, Israel.
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