Interim Dean Linda Sarna interviewed about When Nurses Smoked in Hospitals

When Nurses Smoked in Hospitals

Interim Dean Linda Sarna was interviewed by Ersilia Pompilio, RN, MSN, PNP for Working Nurse, a monthly magazine and website for California RNs, about the not-so-long-ago time when both nurses and patients smoked freely in hospitals. Dean Sarna spoke about ‘Nurses Smoking in the Media’, a study published in Nursing Outlook in 2012, with co-author Stella Aguinaga Bialous, Associate Professor in Residence at the UCSF School of Nursing. She also discussed the RWJF-funded project, The Tobacco Free Nurses Initiative (TFN), the first program of its kind focusing on helping nurses to quit and giving nurses the tools to help their patients quit smoking followed by a brief review of the national and international projects that resulted from TFN.