Staff Training Resources

A. Training methodologies

Physician Training Matrix

Nurse Training Matrix

Non-Clinical Staff Training Matrix

B. Explanation of enforcement

Corrective Action Sample Matrix

C. in house/staff

• Sample CEO “why” letter to staff
• Pre-Planning Employee Survey
• Memo from CEO to Staff/Volunteers for Peer Counselors
• Sample EE newsletter article
• Payroll check stuffer
• Sample incentive programs to stop smoking
• Sample role-playing exercises (scripts for how to deal with public/staff)
• Posters/flyers/buttons for staff
• PowerPoint on the (SAMPLE) policy
• PowerPoint for Physicians
  • Handout 1 - Why?
  • Handout 2 - 10 Key Guidelines
  • Handout 3 - Addressing Problems
• PowerPoint for staff presentations
• Pharmacology Charts
  • Pharmacology Chart for Stop Smoking info (University of California)
  • Quit Tobacco Series (UW-CTRI)
• FAQs for Staff
• Provider Pocket Card (Ask, Advise, Assess, Assist, Arrange) (Avery 3612)
• Provider Poster (Ask, Advise, Assess, Assist, Arrange)
• Sample Memo to volunteers
• Training Evaluation Form
• Incident Report Card (for Staff) uses Avery index card stock

PowerPoint for Pregnancy/OB audiences (note, PPT contain many of the same slides)

Bulletin Board for Staff (coming soon)

Tobacco and Core Measures: Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update
Clinical Practice Update and Guideline
US Surgeon General, 2008
http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/tobacco/treating_tobacco_use08.pdf

AHRQ - General References on Smoking Cessation and Providers
http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/tobacco/gdlnrefs1.htm

AHRQ References for Studies in Meta-Analyses

Helping Smokers Quit: A Guide for Clinicians
AHRQ, 2008

Specification Manual for Hospital Quality (Joint Commission):  http://www.jointcommission.org/NR/rdonlyres/B37E04F7-C497-43F3-98E4-208F20339271/0/Release_Notes_2_3.pdf   (these come out periodically, there are both earlier and later ones).  If you search for tobacco you can find the references to where it must be on the H&P.

Ambulatory Care Quality Alliance (http://www.aqaalliance.org/default.htm ) has a list of measures for physicians which includes tobacco use. Online link to measures:  http://www.aqaalliance.org/files/RevisedStarterSetApril2006.doc

Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence—A Systems Approach
A Guide for Health Care Administrators, Insurers, Managed Care Organizations, and Purchasers AHRQ, 2000

Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence CME/CE
Medscape 2/29/08

HEALTHCARE PROVIDER REMINDER SYSTEMS, PROVIDER EDUCATION, AND PATIENT EDUCATION; Working with Healthcare Delivery Systems to Improve the Delivery of Tobacco-Use Treatment to Patients - An Action Guide
CDC Partnership for Prevention

Management of High-Risk Tobacco Users: Where Practice Guidelines and Clinical Judgment Meet CME/CE
Linda H Ferry, MD, MPH

Time Tool: Challenges of Treating Tobacco Use in High-Risk Populations CME/CE
Medscape, 12/28/07

TTAC/Emory Training Program online: Tobacco 101 Training Kit

Rx for Change - UCSF program free for registration

Georgia Provider Brochure

Smoking Among Medicaid Insured Mothers: What are the Neonatal Expenses?
E. Kathleen Adams , Ph.D. , M. Femi Ayadi , Ph.D. , Cathy L. Melvin , Ph.D. , M.P.H., and Carole C. Rivera HEALTH CARE FINANCING REVIEW/Winter 2004-2005/ Volume 26, Number 2 http://www.cms.hhs.gov/HealthCareFinancingReview/downloads/04-05Winterpg105.pdf

Specification Manual for Hospital Quality (Joint Commission):  http://www.jointcommission.org/NR/rdonlyres/B37E04F7-C497-43F3-98E4-208F20339271/0/Release_Notes_2_3.pdf   (these come out periodically, there are both earlier and later ones).  If you search for tobacco you can find the references to where it must be on the H&P.

Ambulatory Care Quality Alliance (http://www.aqaalliance.org/default.htm ) has a list of measures for physicians which includes tobacco use:  http://www.aqaalliance.org/files/RevisedStarterSetApril2006.doc

Free flyers for clinicians to use with prenatal smokers