Summary: Focus For PHE

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Focus for PHE and Preventive Practice
Based on the PHE tool used, it was identified that the patient is a longtime smoker and smokes 2-15 cigarettes per day. Although it is beyond standard practice in the CRU, this became the focus for this patient.
Specific Actions Taken Due to the patient’s history of cancer, smoking cessation was discussed with the patient.
Evidence-Based Nursing Interventions
Nurses working in oncology are in a unique position to help patients quit smoking during a time when motivation is usually higher and patients are more willing to quit (Cooley, Sipples, Murphy, and Sarna, 2008). It is estimated that if each nurse helped one smoker quit per year, the quit rate would triple but this can only be achieved through the