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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Heath, Janie
• Andrews, Jeannette
• Kelley, Frances J.
• Sorrell, Jeanne

Titel

Caught in the Middle: Experiences of Tobacco-Dependent Nurse Practitioners

Ist Teil von

• Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, 2004-09, Vol.16 (9), p.396-401

Ort / Verlag

Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2004

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Purpose To explore how tobacco‐dependent nurse practitioners (NPs) describe their experiences with health promotion and disease prevention practices with patients who smoke. Data Sources Twelve NPs who completed a graduate level NP program of study participated in face‐to‐face interviews and/or online chat room interviews. Conclusions Participants’ responses revealed three themes relevant to their experience as tobacco‐dependent clinicians with health promotion responsibilities. These themes centered around (a) living as an insider in the world of tobacco addiction, (b) having the outside‐in view of living with a tobacco addiction, and (c) being caught in the middle of a tobacco addiction. Implications for Practice All of the tobacco‐dependent participants described limited smoking‐cessation interventions with their patients. A barrier to implementation of more aggressive interventions, perhaps, is the provider's own tobacco addiction. With increasing evidence that tobacco‐dependent health care professionals are not adequately intervening with tobacco‐dependent patients, effective strategies are needed to assist and/or support not only tobaccodependent patients but providers as well.