Marjorie Wells, PhD, RN

Project Director
Tobacco Free Nurses, UCLA School of Nursing

Dr. Marjorie Wells received a BSN from California State University, Los Angeles, a Masters of Nursing (Family Nurse Practitioner) from the University of Washington, School of Nursing, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing from the University of Washington School of Nursing.

She has worked with Drs. Linda Sarna and Stella Bialous for over tweleve years as project director on a number of both national and international projects aimed at capacity building of nurses in tobacco control, and increasing and nurse involvement in providing smoking cessation interventions. Beginning with her role as Project Director of the Tobacco Free Nurses (TFN) initiative (2003), the Tobacco Free Nurses: Leadership and Advocacy Project (2003); the Helping Smokers Quit study (2007); the Chinese Registered Nurses- Helping Smokers Quit project based in Beijing and Anhui Province, China, (2010); the 2011 Czech Republic Nurses Tobacco Cessation Leadership Workshop; the 2012 Registered Nurses Referring to Quitlines: Helping Smokers Quit (RNQL-HSQ, 2012 Eastern Europe - Helping Smokers Quit (EE-HSQ), and the 2014 Eastern Europe Nurses’ Centre of Excellence for Tobacco Control (EE-COE).

She is currently working with Drs. Sarna and Bialous on the Eastern Europe Nurses’ Centre of Excellence for Tobacco Control – Developing Nurse Champions for Tobacco Dependence Treatment (EE-COE II) project (2017) based in the Czech Republic and partnering with Hungary, Moldova, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia, as well as the 2017 Building Capacity of Portuguese Nurses to be Tobacco Control Champions. (PT-TCC) project, both using web-based educational programs to increase tobacco cessation interventions among nurses. Also with Dr. Sarna she has published in the area of nurses and tobacco control.

 

Publications

2013

2012

  • Journal

    Sarna L, Bialous SA, Ong MK, Wells M & Kotlerman J (2012). Increasing Nursing Referral to Telephone Quitlines for Smoking Cessation Using a Web-based Program. Nursing Research.. 2012 Nov-Dec;61(6):433-40. 

    DOI:
    10.1097/NNR.0b013e3182707237
    PMID:
    23073265

2010

2009

  • Journal

    Bialous SA, Sarna L, Wells M, Elashoff D, Wewers ME, Froelicher ES. Characteristics of Nurses Who Used the Internet-based Nurses QuitNet® for Smoking Cessation. Public Health Nursing. 2009 Jul-Aug;26(4):329-38

    DOI:
    10.1111/j.1525-1446.2009.00787.x
    PMID:
    19573211
  • Journal

    Sarna L, Aguinaga Bialous S, Wells MJ, Kotlerman J, Froelicher ES, Wewers ME. Do You Need to Smoke to Get a Break?: Smoking Status and Missed Work Breaks Among Staff Nurses. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2009 Aug;37(2 Suppl):S165-71. 

    DOI:
    10.1016/j.amepre.2009.05.005.
    PMID:
    19591757
  • Journal

    Sarna L, Bialous S, Wewers ME, Froelicher ES, Wells MJ, Kotlerman J, Elashoff D. Nurses Trying to Quit Smoking Using the Internet. Nursing Outlook. 2009 Sep-Oct;57(5):246-56. 

    DOI:
    10.1016/j.outlook.2009.03.002
    PMID:
    19789002
  • Journal

    Sarna L, Bialous SA, Wells M, Kotlerman J, Wewers ME, Froelicher ES. Frequency of Nurses' Smoking Cessation Interventions: Report From a National Survey. Journal of Clinical Nursing. 2009 Jul;18(14):2066-77

    DOI:
    10.1111/j.1365-2702.2009.02796.x
    PMID:
    19638062
  • Journal

    Sarna L, Bialous SA, Wells MJ, Kotlerman J. Smoking Among Psychiatric Nurses: Does it Hinder Tobacco Dependence Treatment? Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association. 2009 Feb;15(1):59-67. 

    DOI:
    10.1177/1078390308330638
    PMID:
    21665795
  • Editorial

    Sarna L & Bialous SA (2010). Response to commentary on Sarna, L, Bialous SA, Wells M, Kotlerman J, Wewers, ME & Froelicher ES (2009) Frequency of nurses’ smoking cessation interventions: report from a national survey. Journal of Clinical Nursing.

2007

  • Journal

    Wells M, Sarna L, Cooley ME, Brown JK, Chernecky C, Williams RD, Padilla G, Danao LL. Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Therapies to Control Symptoms in Women Living with Lung Cancer. Cancer Nursing. 2007 Jan-Feb;30(1):45-55; quiz 56-7. 

    PMID:
    17235219

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