Smokefree Nurses Aotearoa/New Zealand
Strategic plan 2012 - 2015
Background
Smokefree Nurses Aotearoa/New Zealand is a national advocacy group which promotes nurse action to achieve the
vision of a smokefree Aotearoa by 2025. Smokefree Nurses launched in 2007 with the support of Action on Smoking
and Health New Zealand (ASH NZ), Auckland University of Technology (AUT) Nursing and a committed group of
nurses. Smokefree Nurses augments the work of Pauline Allan-Downs, Kaaren Beverly and other nurse leaders who
believe that nurses can include smoking cessation in their everyday practice and have an important role on tobacco
control.
Since Smokefree Nurses launched, the New Zealand government has adopted a smoking cessation health target,
“Better Help for Smokers to Quit”. The Ministry of Health provides free education for standardised evidence-based
smoking cessation interventions for all health professionals including training to give people who smoke access to
fully subsidised nicotine replacement therapy. Provision of such access is a new dimension of nursing practice. In
2011 the health target was followed by a vision of a smokefree Aotearoa by 2025. Smokefree Nurses is currently
funded by the Ministry of Health to advocate for nurses to train and deliver evidence-based brief interventions and
to undertake research to provide evidence of change. Smokefree Nurses is based at and supported by AUT Nursing,
The strategy is based on a situational analysis, structured feedback from nurses attending conferences, seminars and
workshops, surveys and consultation with Smokefree Nurses’ Steering Group and advisors. The three years plan fits
with the interim goal for reducing smoking prevalence in New Zealand from 21% in 2010 to 15 % by 2015 (Smokefree
Aotearoa/New Zealand by 2025 Next Steps 2012 – 2015).
Health goal
To improve the health of New Zealanders
Vision
A Smokefree Aotearoa New Zealand by 2025
Mission
To decrease deaths and diseases caused by tobacco smoking by encouraging and supporting nurses to
maximise their opportunities to help people who smoke quit, to quit if they smoke themselves, to reduce
tobacco product uptake and to advocate for a smokefree Aotearoa/New Zealand
Values
Smokefree Nurses is committed to:
Te Tiriti o Waitangi
Principles and practice of nursing
Equity
Partnership
The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion
Tobacco control and public health
Research and evaluation
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Strategic Plan 2012 – 2015
Strategic priority
Objective
Strategy
Action
Smoking cessation
interventions
Brief best practice smoking
cessation interventions are
routine in nursing care
-Campaign with nurses
-Media releases
-Articles
-Website
-Conference attendance
CPHC
Enrolled Nurses
-Advocacy in partnership with national
nursing associations
- Maintain leaders group of
representatives from National Nursing
Associations
- Advocacy in partnership with tobacco
control
-Work with key nurses in DHB and PHOs,
smokefree coordinators, MoH, ASH,
Smokefree Coalition & other NGOs
-Publish in websites and newsletters read
by nurses
-Write submissions to include smoking
cessation competencies in nurse practice
frameworks
Nurse support for clients
-Campaign with nurses and national
who smoke throughout their nursing associations
journey to quit
-Advocate with employers for time for
nurses to deliver smoking cessation
support
-Respond to requests for support from
nurses
-Advocate for recognition for smoking
cessation nurse specialists
-Support interested nurses
-Advocate for RNs to be designated
prescribers and NPs to be authorised
-Participate in consultation processes
Date
ongoing
As they arise
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prescribers
-Increase public demand for nurses’
smoking cessation services
Education and
training
-Promote nurse cessation services to the
public via unpaid media
- Press releases – World Smokefree Day
and International Nurses Day
-Environmental scan
-Link stakeholders
-Promote training at meetings and with
employers and nursing associations
annual
2013
All nurses trained to deliver
smoking cessation brief
intervention and Quit Card
providers
-Identify groups of nurses who are not
ABC trained
Nurses’ smoking cessation
practice up-to-date
-Provide up-to-date nurse centred
resources
-Host international experts
- Disseminate new best practice
information on website and to electronic
nursing networks
- Advocate with employers for time for
training to advance nurses’ smoking
cessation skills
-Advocacy
-Respond to nurses’ and smokefree
coordinators requests
Brief best practice smoking
cessation education and Quit
Card provision in all
undergraduate nursing
curricula
Smoking cessation in key
post-graduate courses
Smoking cessation
for nurses
Smokefree nurse workforce
Increase equitable
health outcomes
Smokefree Maori nurses,
whanau and clients/patients
-Provide up-to-date teaching and
learning resources
-Provide up-to-date teaching and
learning resources
-Promote evidence-based quitting
services to nurses
-Scope cessation service tailored for
nurses
-Deliver Smokefree Nurses Maori
Strategy
2012
-Representation at Australasian Nurse
Educators Conference
-Provide information on website
-Create smoking cessation specific
resource for undergraduate educators
-Create, promote and disseminate
resources
2013
-Website
-Newsletter
-Needs assessment
ongoing
ongoing
2013
-Prioritise actions on strategy
-Representation at hui
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Smokefree Pacific nurses,
family and clients/patients
Smokefree mental health
nurses and clients/patients
Tobacco control
Smokefree Aotearoa Vision
2025 interim goals 2015
-Work with Maori Nursing Associations
-Deliver Smokefree Nurses
Pacific Strategy
-Work with Pacific Nursing Section
NZNO
-Deliver Smokefree Nurses Mental
Health Strategy
-Work with Mental Health Nursing
groups and associations
-Promote understanding of role of
nurses to achieve the Vision
-Support tobacco control advocacy eg
plain packaging campaign
- Support Global Nurses Alliance for
Tobacco or Health
Research and
evaluation
Measure changes in nurses’
smoking cessation and
tobacco control practice and
attitudes
Measure change in number
of undergraduate nursing
programmes delivering
smoking cessation education
Reduction in smoking
prevalence of nurses
Centre of excellence for
nurse smoking cessation and
tobacco control research and
evaluation
-Undertake national follow-up survey
of nurses
-Prioritise actions on strategy
-Representation at fono
-Review and prioritise actions on strategy
-Representation at conferences and
seminars
-Include in campaign with nurses and
presentations at conferences
-Media
-Write submissions
-Work with NNAs
-Representation at world meetings
-Organise and host world meeting
-Liaise with smokefree nursing groups in
other countries
-Seek funding
-Repeat 2006/7ASH KAN survey
-Disseminate results in nurses’ campaign
As they arise
2012
2015
2012
2012/13
- Undertake national follow-up survey
of undergraduate nursing programmes
-Disseminate national follow-up survey
of undergraduate nursing programmes
2012
-Intervention study in partnership with
Pacific Island Nurses
-Support other studies eg Maori nurses
-Undertake research projects with
nurses and clients
Secure funding
Undertake study
2012
2013
-Scope projects
-Secure funding
-Disseminate findings
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Structure
Smokefree Nurses Aotearoa/New Zealand
Patroness
Steering group
Advisory group
Director
Project manager
National Nursing Associations
Individual nurses
Patroness
Mrs Putiputi O’Brien
Steering group
Grace Wong
Andrea Ryan
Kaaren Beverley
Evelyn Hikuroa
Angilla Perawiti
Linda TasiMulitalo
Sue Stevenson
Carleine
Receveur
Dr Anita
Bamford-Wade
Tio Sewel
Nursing, AUT University
WDHB
Waitemata PHO
Nursing, MIT
Te Ha o Te Oranga o Ngati Whatua
Whitereia Community Polytechnic
Bachelor of Nursing (Pacific)
programme
Smokefree coordinator Southern
DHB
Project manager Totally Smokefree
Hawkes Bay HBDHB
Joint Head of Nursing, AUT
University
Independent contractor
Director; services for Asian peoples; research
Primary health care nurses
Mental health services
Maori strategy leader; nursing education
Services for Maori
Pacific strategy leader; nursing education
Enrolled Nurses; DHB smokefree services (South
Island representative)
DHB and PHC smokefree services
Evaluation; research
Mental health strategy leader; Maori mental health
Advisory group
Pauline Allan-Downs; Dr Mark Wallace-Bell; Faith Roberts
Director
Grace Wong (0.2 EFT)
Project manager
Lynn Stevenson (0. EFT)
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National Nursing Associations
New Zealand Nurses Organisation
College of Nurses’ Aotearoa
National Council of Maori Nurses
Te Ao Maramatanga
Pacific Nursing Section NZNO
Nurse Executives of New Zealand
Occupational Health Nurses NZ
Plunket
Nurse Practitioners
Te Runanga O Aotearoa NZNO
Enrolled Nurses NZNO
Wharangi Ruamano
The National Association of Nurse Education in the Tertiary Sector
Individual nurse members
Individual nurses including practicing nurses and nurses in the smokefree workforce
and some Maori midwives
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