| The Tobacco Free Nurses Nursing Leadership project is a collaborative effort whose goal is to assist nurse leaders and their organizations in addressing tobacco control issues. |
The Tobacco Free Nurses Nursing Leadership project is a collaborative effort between the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute (DCFI), with funding from the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center. Our goal is to assist nurse leaders and their organizations in addressing tobacco control issues. We focus our efforts in three areas: (1) increasing the proportion of nurses who assist patients to quit; (2) decreasing the prevalence of tobacco use among nurses, particularly among low socioeconomic and racial/ethnic populations, and (3) increasing nursing involvement in tobacco control policy efforts in their organizations at the community, state, and/or national levels. Our major functions include providing technical assistance to nursing leaders; forging relationships and coalitions between nursing and the tobacco control communities; showcasing nurse leaders' tobacco control activities through conference sessions, materials, and this website; and disseminating information about smoking cessation and tobacco control to nurses and nursing organizations. We enjoy the cooperation and support of several nursing organizations that convened at the first-ever summit of nursing organizations in March 2004 at the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality in Gaithersburg, MD. Tobacco Free Nurses collaborators leading the Nursing Leadership Project include
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