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The student's experience in nursing: a case study

   

Added on  2020-02-24

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Running head: NURSINGResearch paperName of the student:Name of the University:Author note:

1NURSINGTable of ContentsResearch topic............................................................................................................................2Introduction................................................................................................................................2Research question/hypothesis and its purpose...........................................................................3Literature review........................................................................................................................4Methodology..............................................................................................................................5Data collection.......................................................................................................................5Data analysis..........................................................................................................................5Validity of the research............................................................................................................14Strengths and weaknesses....................................................................................................14Clinical strategies.................................................................................................................14School-based projects...........................................................................................................15Ethical, cultural and religious considerations..........................................................................15Results......................................................................................................................................16Smoking status of the study.................................................................................................16Counselling..........................................................................................................................16Discussion................................................................................................................................17Strengths and limitations of the study..................................................................................17Limitation.............................................................................................................................18Conclusion................................................................................................................................18

2NURSINGResearch topicReduction of smoking habits in 12-15 year-old childrenIntroduction Smoking is a habit in which substances burn and the smoke is inhaled and absorbed into theblood of a human body. The most common things that are used for smoke or tobacco leaves. Somepeople also used to smoke Cannabis and marijuana known as weed. Both of the substances arecrushed into small pieces, and then rolled into a small cylindrical shape with the help of a paper.Smoking generally causes negative health effects as the inhalation of smoke needs to variousproblems in respiration (Di Paco et al. 2015).The smoking generally causes harmful diseases whichleads to the death of people. Smoking of tobacco is the most common type of recreational drug.Cannabis and opium is used by a very small amount of people as these are not available easily. There are many reasons that a teenager used to smoke. Most common reason is therelationship between the friends and a development of habit. Generally if a friend used to smoke thereis an increased chance of being habituated of smoking. These include the social factors also such asthe attraction of the advertisement by tobacco companies. Some other factors are there such as stressrelated to school family or relationship may also lead to smoking. At the teenage the people thoughtthat cigarette can eliminate the stress but this is not true rather smoking a cigarette is harmful to healthas it causes lung cancer it increases the blood pressure and heart rate tenses the muscles and the bloodvessels begin to construct as a result the oxygen availability to the brain and body becomes less.Smoking affects the health of everyone the one who is smoking a cigarette directly and one who isinhaling the smoke. This assignment deals with the smoking habits of the children aging 12 to 15years. It briefly describes the causes of the smoking, the intervention and the prevention of furthersmoking habits (Karimy et al., 2013).Definition of key termsKey termVariations or synonymsDefinition

3NURSINGsmokingactive smokingthe act of inhaling smoke from cigarettechain smokechain smoker, heavy smokerto smoke one cigarette immediately after anotherHabitroutine, patterna need of a person to smoke regularlyPuffpull, inhalethe action in which a person breathe in thesmokeResearch question/hypothesis and its purposePICO - How can we educate 12-15 year old children as compared to the adults to quitsmoking?P – 12-15 year old childrenI – To educate the childrenC – from adultsO – Quit smokingThe purpose of this assignment is to teach the adolescent about the side effects ofsmoking cigarettes. According to YRBSS can be said that 50% of adolescents have currentlytried to quit smoking 12% are there who smoke cigarette daily but were able to quit. Here inthis assignment it has been described that to reduce death rates from tobacco use andinitiation of cigarette smoking campaign must be taken which could help the current smokersto quit. American Society of Cancer recommended that the youths Included in the initiativeof smoking cessation by recognizing the support and encouragement of that person and theirfamily. NRT And bupropion are the two main pharmacotherapy medicine used for thecessation of smoking (American Cancer Society 2015). Although bupropion has many usesbut it is not permitted for the use of the children below 18 years. It increases the risk of

4NURSINGsuicidal thinking and behavior in children and adolescents because this medicine is used fortreating depression. As the patient with depression has already at an increased rate of suicideso it is important to closely monitor the patients who are receiving the anti depression in theearlier months of therapy (Di Paco et al. 2015).Literature review This part deals with the details of the adolescent smoking in Australia. Most of thestates and territories in Australia are prohibited of the selling of tobacco to the person underthe age of 18. But those who used to smoke collect the cigarettes from corrupted sellers oralso can get from friends or family members (Saracen 2016).According to the World Health Organisation report of 2012, many of the deaths canbe prevented if the persons who smoke may quit smoking in the next 20 years. Persons whobegin smoking at an early age are at a higher risk of having cancer in lung as compared tothose who starts smoking at a later age (Xi et al. 2016).Although the tobacco is harmful for consumption of the people, it has been declaredas a legal product for use. It is also proved as a most common cause of death all around theworld. The smoking of tobacco is widely used as its costing is low, lack of knowledge aboutits side effects and lack of policies which can restrict the use of tobacco (WHO, 2015).Tobacco contains different types of chemicals which causes cancers. The death rate ofcancer is more than AIDS, intake of drugs, accidents or suicide. The purpose of this study isto identify the factors which contribute to smoking of the teenagers; the ways to educatingthem about the side effects of smoking and helping them to quit smoking (Klade et al. 2015).

5NURSINGMethodologySmoking cessation is one of the most effective methods now-a-days among all otherhealth interventions. It is also mostly used methods as it is cost effective too. A cross –sectional study was done among the teenagers in secondary and high school. A total no of180 students were selected for this study. All the schools selected are asked for collecting thesample of the selected members and a sampling technique was introduced for obtaining thestudy unit in which a certain amount of students are selected from each of the school. Thesestudents are invited to participate in the study (Reda et al. 2012).The study was done by doing The Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS). The GlobalYouth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) questionnaire was given to the students and asked them tofill up the questions. The data that were collected was analyzed and coordinated with themembers of the survey and then forwarded to the main investigator of the survey. Thequestionnaire contains total of 60 MCQs which were to be done. The survey contains 41questions from the GYTS (Walther et al. 2014).Data collectionThe data were collected from the month of March to June 2013, and it had beensupported by a total of 13 staff and a coordinator. Procedures of the survey were designed assuch so that they can protect the students’ privacy by doing an anonymous and voluntaryparticipation. Questionnaire that was provided was self-administered by the members of thesurvey in the classroom (Di Paco et al. 2015). The responses were given by the studentdirectly on the answer sheet which can be scanned by the computer.Data analysisThe questions there were asked first was about the background information of the student

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