2011 Chinese Registered Nurses - Helping Smokers Quit (CRN-HSQ)

The Chinese Registered Nurses - Helping Smokers Quit (CRN-HSQ) Project

Educated Chinese RNs could have a significant impact on decreasing tobacco-related morbidity and mortality in China. In response to this overwhelming health problem in China, the impact of The Chinese Registered Nurse-Helping Smokers Quit (CRN-HSQ), an adapted Web-based educational program was developed to improve Chinese nurses’ knowledge and skills in smoking cessation and on increasing nurses’ self-reported frequency of delivery of the 5As to smokers in four hospitals in Beijing and four hospitals in Hefei City, Anhui Province.