Strategies to implement tobacco control policy and advocacy initiatives.
Critical care nursing organizations and individual critical care nurses can have an important impact on tobacco-related health policies. This article reviews the importance of critical care nursing involvement in policy efforts to achieve tobacco control goals, barriers to such involvement, and strategies to implement successful tobacco control policy initiatives. The involvement of the Association of Critical-Care Nurses and other nursing organizations in the Nursing Leadership in Tobacco Control Task Force is described.
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Linda
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School of Nursing, University of California, Los Angeles, 700 Tiverton Avenue, Box 95918, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. lsarna@ucla.edu
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Stella
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Barbeau
Elizabeth
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McLellan
Deborah
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