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Nurses help patients kick ’butts’ with free guide

Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, May 27, 2005

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According to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' (HHS) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), more than 440,000 people die each year from smoking. To increase nurses' involvement in anti-smoking campaigns, the AHRQ and Tobacco Free Nurses-a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation initiative-arm nurses with evidence-based information about the risks associated with smoking so they can share this information with patients. In the free pocket guide, "Helping Smokers Quit: A Guide for Nurses," nurses are advised to practice the "5 As" cessation-intervention method. To help nurses understand this method, explain the following steps:

1. Ask - Ask patients about their tobacco use
2. Advise - Advise patients who use tobacco to quit
3. Assess - Assess patients' readiness to quit
4. Assist - Assist patients who use tobacco with a plan to quit
5. Arrange - Arrange follow-up visits with patients

Click here to view the HHS' "Helping Smokers Quit: A Guide for Nurses." Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

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