Prerequisites: Nil
Time: 1 hour

This training is also a good refresher session for Nurses and Allied Professionals who have attended the Smokefree Best Practice session more than a year or so ago.

By attending this course registered Health Professionals can:

• Provide smoking cessation advice and support reliably and repeatedly across the health sector.
• Support patients who are experiencing nicotine withdrawal and/or want to stop smoking.
  
• Become accredited to chart NRT for inpatients, as per Te Whatu Ora Waitematā's Standing Orders for NRT.
• Develop a clear understanding of why it is important for us to ask 15 yrs and above of their smoking status, offer advice and support if currently smoking.
• Be informed of the option of stop smoking medications (subsidised/non-subsidised) available to offer patients and their whanau.
• Be informed of the FREE option of support available to offer patients and their whanau and the Smokefree referral process.