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    A Curriculum of Tobacco and Nicotine Dependence Treatment for DNP Programs: A Summary of Bhattarai's 2023 Practice-Improvement Project
    (North Dakota State University, 2024) Bhattarai, Kanchan; Buettner-Schmidt, Kelly
    This tool is a brief summary of Bhattarai’s 2023 practice- improvement project improving tobacco and nicotine dependence treatment curriculum in North Dakota State University’s (NDSU) Doctor of Nursing Practice-Family Nurse Practitioner program. This tool is intended as a guide for educational institutions or providers to incorporate into their curriculums to improve provider competencies and patient outcomes. Few providers assess, refer, and provide treatment to the patient consistently and effectively. Lack of skills, training, and inadequate knowledge were identified as barriers why providers were not providing regular counseling or pharmacologic intervention. Therefore, incorporating formal tobacco and nicotine treatment education into the curriculum of DNP programs is imperative to curb tobacco epidemic. After completion of the intervention, significant increases in students’ knowledge, confidence, and comfort were observed in helping patients quit, in providing information about cessation medications, programs and services, and in making referrals for tobacco and nicotine dependence treatment.
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    A Summary of a Practice-Improvement Project Incorporating an Evidence-Based Tobacco and Nicotine Dependence Treatment Curriculum Into a Doctor of Nursing Practice Program
    (North Dakota State University, 2023) Doan, Jillian
    This tool is based on a 2022 practice-improvement project incorporating an evidence-based tobacco and nicotine dependence treatment curriculum into North Dakota State University’s (NDSU) Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program. This tool is intended as a guide for educational institutions or providers to incorporate into their curriculums to improve provider competencies and patient outcomes. After completion of the tool, the students’ (a) motivation and confidence in helping people quit tobacco and (b) comfort with providing information about cessation medications, programs and services, and referrals for evidence-based tobacco cessation increased dramatically from pre-education to 2.5 months post-education for all questions.