By the end of this course, you will:
- Describe the burden of family tobacco use.
- Systemically screen families to find out if any members smoke and if they have no-smoking policy in their home and cars (ASK). Routinely elevate the importance of tobacco as a health factor and allow provision of education to families about the harms of tobacco use and exposure.
- Motivate tobacco users to make changes in use and present options proven to be effective to help tobacco users quit (ASSIST).
- Help tobacco users develop a specific quit strategy that includes follow-up contact (ASSIST/REFER)
- Measure and improve care delivery and processes concerning tobacco control by doing the following:
- Collect and analyze baseline data to establish a starting point for improvement.
- Identify one or more performance gaps in key activities of care.
- Create an improvement plan for closing identified performance gap(s) and document the improvement idea to be tested:
- AIM: What are we trying to improve or accomplish?
- MEASURES: How will we know that a change made is an improvement?
- CHANGES: What changes can we make that will result in improvement?
- Test ideas quickly on a small scale to determine if the changes lead to improvement.
- Collect and analyze follow-up data to measure the results of the test.
- Determine how to sustain successful changes and how to systematically integrate them into the culture, processes, and workflow of your practice.
- Create additional improvement plans and repeat PDSA cycles until you reach the maximum potential of providing optimal care in your practice.