This BPG provides direction to nurses and other health-care providers who support individuals who use tobacco. The goal of this guideline is to ensure quality care and improve clinical outcomes.
This BPG provides direction to nurses and other health-care providers who support individuals who use tobacco. The goal of this guideline is to ensure quality care and improve clinical outcomes.
As an introduction, we’ve provided summaries of the practice recommendations from the BPG document — but we strongly encourage downloading RNAO’s official PDF.
Use brief interventions to screen all clients for all forms of tobacco use and initiate intervention as appropriate.
Develop a person-centred tobacco intervention plan with the client.
Provide clients with, or refer them to, intensive interventions and counselling on the use of pharmacotherapy, if they use tobacco and express an interest in reducing or quitting their tobacco use.
Treat or refer all pregnant or postpartum women at every encounter for intensive behavioural counselling for tobacco harm reduction, cessation, and relapse prevention, in conjunction with nicotine replacement therapy, on a case by case basis.
Evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention plan until the client’s goals are met.
