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Nursing research and treatment of tobacco dependence: state of the science.

Tobacco use is considered to be the single most preventable cause of premature morbidity and mortality among men and women. It is well documented that tobacco cessation reduces the burden of disease significantly and is cost effective. Efficacious therapy for tobacco dependence exists, and nurses have been shown to be effective tobacco cessation interventionists. Given the large number of nurses in the United States, nurses can influence national health objectives of reduced tobacco use significantly and help to decrease the number of adults at risk for tobacco-attributable disease and death. The objectives of this presentation are to (a) describe the scientific evidence for tobacco cessation interventions, based on the U.S. clinical practice guideline Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence; (b) present the meta-analytic findings of the efficacy of nursing interventions for smoking cessation; (c) discuss barriers to nursing research and tobacco interventions; and (d) provide future directions for nursing intervention research.

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Nursing research in smoking cessation: a listing of the literature, 1996-2005.

A listing of publications related to nurses and tobacco is posted on the Tobacco Free Nurses Web site (www.tobaccofreenurses.org). For this conference, a chronological listing of the numbers and type of data-based articles that focused on nursing involvement in tobacco cessation published since 1996, the year of the first publication of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, Clinical Practice Guideline #18, through 2005 was developed. One hundred and seventy-five data-based papers that met the criteria, that is, the paper focused on smoking cessation and involved nurses, were identified. Most (88%) articles were exclusively focused on cessation. Research designs included experimental (38%), quasi-experimental (24%), descriptive-quantitative (25%), descriptive-qualitative (8%), meta-analyses (2%), and secondary analyses and systematic reviews (each 1%). The number of articles that focused on nursing involvement in tobacco cessation has increased eight fold in the past 10 years, from less than 5 articles published in 1996 to more than 40 published in 2005. The minority (35%) of data-based articles that focused on nurses and tobacco cessation were published in nursing journals.

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Critically reviewing the ophthalmic literature.

In the current era, where optometry's scope and very definition are evolving, the practitioner's ability to evaluate critically the profession's clinical and basic science literature is crucial. This paper reviews the components of a scientific paper both in theory and by specific example. Emphasis is placed on reading the literature without accepting it at face value, including the description of the study designs frequently encountered in clinical research, the features of a study design that make it appropriate or inappropriate to answer the central hypothesis, and a brief introduction to the common pitfalls of routinely used statistical analysis.

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Skeletal pin site care: National Association of Orthopaedic Nurses guidelines for orthopaedic nursing.

A systematic analysis of the research literature on skeletal pin site care was conducted, and the opinions of an expert panel were obtained. Four specific recommendations for skeletal pin site care are offered, with explicit discussions of the level of research support and/or expert panel support for each. Discussion of other pin site care issues is provided, and characteristics of the research base regarding skeletal pin site care are described.

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