CURRENT ISSUE

CONTACT US

NOTEWORTHY

Leaders of Tobacco-Free Nurses campaign recognized

Linda Sarna (left), professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (Westwood) School of Nursing, received a 2005 Media Award from the American Academy of Nurses for her leadership of the Tobacco-Free Nurses Initiative promotional media campaign. Sarna shares the award with Stella Aguinaga Bialous, president of Tobacco Policy International; Mary Ellen Wewers, Mildred E. Newton professor of nursing at Ohio State University; and Erika Sivarajan Froelicher, professor of nursing at the University of California, San Francisco.

The Tobacco-Free Nurses Initiative, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, was developed to help nurses stop smoking and to provide tools for nurses to help their patients stop smoking.

“Although smoking among nurses has declined, at 15 percent it continues to be higher than among other health professionals,” says Sarna, principal investigator for the research initiative. “For example, only 3 percent of physicians smoke. Smoking among nursing students also continues to be higher than among medical students.”

Smoking cessation tools developed by the initiative are available for downloading at no cost at www.tobaccofreenurses.org. RNL

A-C

D-G

H-K

L-M

N-S

T-Z

Deceased