Psychiatric Patients Given Smoking-Cessation Treatment Less Likely to Be …

Psychiatric patients given smoking-cessation treatment less likely to be …
Since 1993, tobacco use in U.S. hospitals has been banned, with the exception of inpatient psychiatry units, which can and often do permit smoking, and where staff may smoke with patients. Prochaska regularly gives talks in which she documents the long … Read more on EurekAlert (press release)

American Psychiatric Nurses Association Identifies Urgent Need for Competency …
The APNA position paper states that the majority of the approximately 90,000 PMHRN in hospitals across the United States work on inpatient psychiatric units where they provide treatment to persons who are acutely suicidal. Despite that fact, no … Read more on PR Web (press release)

Smoking cessation treatment lowered hospital readmission among psychiatric …
… in which 224 patients who were hospitalized at a locked inpatient psychiatry unit for a range of mental illnesses — including depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia — were assigned either to a motivational smoking cessation program or … Read more on Healio

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