![[ Visit Client Website ]](images/banner.gif)
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Exhibit Hall (Kansas City Convention Center)
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this presentation attendees will be able to:
- Demonstrate effectiveness of training nursing students on smoking cessation counseling using the 5A model.
- Audience: health educators and college teachers
- Key Points: The need to update health professional curricula by including material on smoking cessation; adaptation of evidence-based course to train nurses and other health disciplines in smoking cessation; explain the contribution of the simulation to learning; describe implementation of the course augmented by figures and statistics; present ways for evaluating the course outcomes
- Educational Experience: Audience will learn about ways to have health professionals engage in tobacco use control and how can undergraduate curricula prepare health professional students to develop skills in helping smokers to quit.
- Benefits: Demonstrate effectiveness of integration of evidence-based didactic and practical smoking cessation program into curricula improves nursing students’ clinical skills in helping smokers to quit.