Implementing an Inpatient Smoking Cessation Program serves as a step-by-step manual for implementing a cost-effective tobacco cessation program for hospitalized patients. Based on the Staying Free program, which has evidenced among the highest cessation rates reported in the scientific literature, this book is the result of decades of research by the authors. Although the book reviews a tobacco cessation program, the process is applicable to most behavioral interventions in acute- or long-term care settings. The book details the administrative responsibilities involved in designing, implementing, delivering, evaluating, and maintaining an inpatient tobacco cessation program. Its how-to approach focuses on the skills needed to: determine the work that needs to be done, select the appropriate interventions and providers, pay for and market the program, and create systems to keep the program alive. It provides algorithms for forecasting program enrollment and information on how to budget the program. Readers can then use this information as a blueprint for implementing their own program. A chapter on workflow provides a "virtual tour" of what to expect from the first 48 hours through the first year. Written in an accessible style with insightful interviews with actual providers, Implementing an Inpatient Smoking Cessation Program: *summarizes the literature on tobacco use, including the causal health effects and cost-effectiveness of cessation programs, to help readers build a case for a program; *reviews the clinical guidelines and advantages that support an inpatient program; and *provides tips on how to develop an effective program including insight into where the bottlenecks are likely to occur, and how to avoid them. Implementing an Inpatient Smoking Cessation Program is intended for health care administrators, providers, researchers, educators, and students in health care administration, public health, community and health psychology, (behavioral) medicine, nursing, respiratory therapy, and rehabilitation.
This is a story about tiny creatures that live in the darkness of the soil. When a tree cries out in pain, some unexpected heroes come to the rescue. Nema and her gang of young nematodes (tiny worms) embark on a dangerous journey underground. The Xenos, a group of wise but deadly bacteria, hitch a ride. The story of how they help the tree is full of action, life-or-death challenges and microscopic warfare. It is a story of co-operation and ancient partnership, about events happening all over the Earth, in the hidden worlds beneath our feet.
Caregivers and educators alike will find this curriculum indispensable for teaching patients the basic skills needed to manage diabetes and helping them learn how to make informed health care decisions and improve their lifestyle. Divided into 3 modules: Initial Management of Diabetes, Home Management of Diabetes, and Improvement of Lifestyle. Each module contains a description of materials, objectives, handouts, examples of goals, and instructor guidelines. A Patient Record helps you plan and track patient progress.
A series of teaching outlines by the Michigan Diabetes Research and Training Center, this comprehensive teaching tool provides vital information and insights into all areas of diabetes from the basics of eating, meal planning, and insulin, to regulating blood glucose, monitoring, and long-term complications. Everything you need to know including carbohydrate counting, pregnancy, calculating exchanges, sexual health, and more.
Sumérgete en la rica y variada cultura de la galaxia Star Wars. Desde sofisticados vestidos de Naboo hasta preciados juguetes infantiles, este libro te permitirá descubrir las costumbres, el arte y el entretenimiento de esta galaxia fascinante." -- Page [4] of cover.
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