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Published on: January 10, 2015
Strategies to implement tobacco control policy and advocacy initiatives
Linda Sarna1, Stella Bialous, Elizabeth Barbeau
1School of Nursing, University of California, Los Angeles, 700 Tiverton Avenue, Box 95918, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. lsarna@ucla.edu
Abstract:
Critical care nursing organizations and individual critical care nurses can have an important impact on tobacco-related health policies. This article reviews the importance of critical care nursing involvement in policy efforts to achieve tobacco control goals, barriers to such involvement, and strategies to implement successful tobacco control policy initiatives. The involvement of the Association of Critical-Care Nurses and other nursing organizations in the Nursing Leadership in Tobacco Control Task Force is described.
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