The Role Of Smokefree Nurses

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Smokefree Nurses is a non profit advocacy group established to support work in diminishing mortality and illnesses caused by tobacco. These Nurses are funded by the Ministry of Health and Auckland University of Technology, to provide support for nurses, as nurses play an essential role in helping Maori smokers’ quit as stated in (Smokefree Nurses Aotearoa/New Zealand, 2014). In (Nurses for Smokefree Aotearoa, 2010) the smokefree nurses has developed an website page which pulled together useful information for nurses to use as a one-stop shop, in order to help the nurse offer effective smoking cessation interventions for the client. The website also contains plenty of networking opportunities, personal stories, tools and evidence-based information,

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