Tobacco Cessation brief Intervention Training for Undergraduate Nursing Students

Abstract

The United States Preventive Task Force recommends tobacco cessation as a preventive service with a high certainty of substantial benefit. Brief intervention training for healthcare providers in treating tobacco use and dependence has been well established in the literature. Undergraduate nursing students’ may be at an optimal time in their career to undergo training on appropriate tobacco cessation teaching methods. The purpose of this project was to assess the outcomes of tobacco brief intervention training for undergraduate nursing students. Outcomes include knowledge of tobacco use health and economic impact and use of brief intervention for tobacco use by undergraduate students. This study demonstrates that brief intervention training may reasonably be administered during traditional nursing school curriculum. Further studies are warranted to evaluate if this training has any impact on quality of patient instruction during patient interactions.