52 research outputs found
Supporting smokers to quit in general practice
No full text Practice nurses can play an invaluable role in helping patients to stop smoking. Emma Croghan outlines smoking risks and different ways people can be helped to quit Smoking tobacco is the single biggest preventable cause of mortality in England and Wales and is the cause of much ill-health with over 1.5 million people in England suffering from a smoking-related disease. This article provides an overview of smoking cessation training needs for practice nurses, information on carbon monoxide and advice on the different methods of cessation and relevant medication. </jats:p
Tobacco control and young people: a guide for GPNs
No full text Smoking-related deaths may happen decades later, but most smokers actually begin the habit in adolescence. Emma Croghan looks at ways that general practice nurses can help teenagers to give up or deter them from starting in the first place Practice nurses have an important role to play in tobacco control with young people. Smoking remains a public health priority for all ages, and practice nurses will commonly experience working with older adults, especially those who have long-term conditions and who are smokers. Though the majority of smoking-related deaths are in people aged 35 years or older, the onset of smoking occurs primarily in adolescence. Therefore, intervening to prevent uptake and to increase and maintain cessation in young people who have already started to smoke is crucial. </jats:p
California carols ...
No full textWords by Lucy Croghan Browne, music by various composers.With music.Mode of access: Internet
George Croghan: the life of a conqueror
No full textThis dissertation integrates my own specifying paradigm of the “situational frontier” and historian David Day’s generalizing paradigm of “supplanting society” to contextualize one historical personage, George Croghan, who advanced the interests of four eighteenth-century supplanting societies—one nation (Great Britain) and three of its North American colonies (Pennsylvania, New York, and Virginia)—in terms of three fields of endeavor, trade, diplomacy, and proprietorship. His mastery of intercultural trade and diplomacy enabled him not only to create advantageous conditions for the governments of the three colonies to claim proprietorship of swaths of Indian land, but also to create advantageous conditions for himself to do likewise. The loci of the claims were “situational frontiers,” the distinct spaces where particular Indians, Europeans, and Euro-Americans converged in particular circumstances and coexisted, sometimes peacefully and sometimes violently. His mastery of trade and diplomacy enabled him not only to create advantageous conditions for Great Britain to claim proprietorship in the Old Northwest (present-day Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Illinois), but also to create advantageous conditions for himself to do likewise. The supplanting process, according to David Day, involved three overlapping or contemporaneous “stages”: (1) the claiming of legal or de jure pro- prietorship; (2) the claiming of effective or de facto proprietorship; and (3) the claiming of moral proprietorship. The first stage involved a symbolic gesture like raising a territorial flag; the second involved territorial exploration and its consequences, the naming of geographic features, the fortification of borders, the tilling of soil, the development of resources, and the peopling of lands; and the third involved a justification of conquest. Because Croghan at one time or another claimed de jure, de facto, or moral proprietorship of Indian lands for himself, for the three colonies, or for Great Britain, he was a conquer-or.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Robert Daiutolo, J
Tobacco control and young people: A guide for school nurses
No full text Tobacco smoking remains a public health priority and school nurses have an important role to play in tobacco control. Even though the majority of smoking-related deaths are in people aged 35 years or older, the onset of smoking occurs primarily in adolescence, and most adult smokers report that they began smoking before the age of 18, and over 80% before the age of 20. There is also evidence of early physical harm from child and adolescent smoking. This article looks at how school nurses can get involved in tobacco control, including whole-school policies and support for individuals. </jats:p
Tobacco control guide for school nurses: Electronic cigarettes
No full text Tobacco smoking remains a public health priority and school nurses have an important role to play in tobacco control. Even though the majority of smoking-related deaths are in people aged 35 years or older, the onset of smoking occurs primarily in adolescence, and most adult smokers report that they began smoking before the age of 18. There is also evidence of early physical harm from child and adolescent smoking. The first article in this mini-series looked at how school nurses can get involved in tobacco control, including whole-school policies and support for individuals. This second article focuses on electronic cigarettes, looking at use prevalence, discussing potential public health benefits and offering recommendations for school nurses. </jats:p
Weight management: Addressing barriers and improving practice
No full text The National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) has been tracking the rise in obesity in England since 2005. School nurses, as public health professionals, have a key role to play in identifying and supporting children and young people with weight issues, and their families. However, while the NCMP is very useful in providing data, there are number of challenges to intervention which need to be overcome. This article looks at some of these barriers and ways to overcome them. </jats:p
Supporting smokers to quit in general practice
No full text Smoking tobacco is the single biggest preventable cause of mortality in England and Wales and is the cause of much ill-health with over 1.5 million people in England suffering from a smoking-related disease. This article provides an overview of smoking cessation training needs for practice nurses, information on carbon monoxide and advice on the different methods of cessation and relevant medication. </jats:p
Occupational Health and school health: a natural alliance?
No full textBACKGROUND: The United Kingdom National Health Service aims to provide a holistic 'cradle to grave' service. In order to achieve this, systems are in place for effective communication between providers of services for babies and children. However, when children leave school, communication between the school health services and workplace health services to protect and promote the health of the new workforce is rare. Working together is a commonly-stated rhetoric of contemporary nursing theory, but often this is not applied in practice. School health and occupational health have similar aims and objectives and, by working together, may be able to improve the health of large populations for a lifetime. AIM: This paper aims to examine the similarities in principles and practices between school health and occupational health nurses, and to identify areas of overlap in which collaboration could improve care for clients of both services. DISCUSSION: The paper examines the nature of nursing in occupational and school settings, and similarities and differences in policy, law and principles. It also examines these two areas of practice within a public health framework, looking for areas of overlap. A basis is suggested for collaborative working between the two areas, and barriers, facilitators and benefits of this practice are examined. CONCLUSION: We conclude that there does exist a natural alliance between occupational and school health nursing, and that the two should work together to provide continuity of care for clients on leaving school, and to prepare children and young people for the workplace and any special health issues in their chosen careers
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