Evidence-based strategies to support adolescents to quit smoking cigarettes
You are working as a School Nurse at a secondary school in regional Victoria. The senior school coordinator contacted you to discuss the “cigarette smoking issue” that has been gaining increased attention in the school in the last 3 months. You have decided to produce an evidence-based health-promoting intervention on cigarette smoking and its consequences, with a focus on education, prevention and resources for smoking cessation for Year 11 and 12 students. In order to disseminate the information, you have been tasked to present a narrated PowerPoint presentation.
*Discuss two evidence-based strategies to support adolescents to quit smoking cigarettes.
Do you think that counselling/Cognitive Behavioural therapy for one of them?
If it is, can you please use it for the first one?
Instructions for this assessment task:
Features of a well-developed Narrated PowerPoint Presentation
• Use of appropriate (non-medical) language
• Use of photographs or simple illustrations to support key points
• A logical flow of ideas, with use of headings and subheadings to signpost key concepts
• Health education should focus on education, prevention, and smoking cessation.
• You are required to think broadly to include the concepts of health literacy in developing this education strategy.
