Smoking Cessation Brief Advice Training for Eye Health Professionals
Provider: Quit Victoria
Contact: Emma Dean, [E] emma.dean@cancervic.org.au, [P] 03 9514 6305
Activity Outline
Quit has tailored this course especially for eye health professionals and it has been designed with optometrists in mind.
The training aims to equip the sector with the skills and confidence to deliver best practice smoking cessation brief advice to patients. The module aims to:
- Improve knowledge, awareness and attitudes on the benefits of quitting using codeveloped messaging
- Improve access to evidence-based smoking cessation care for people who are seeing eye health professionals
- Increase eye health professional’s knowledge and confidence in providing 3 step brief advice and referring people with best practice tobacco dependence treatment.
The benefits for eye health professionals will be improved skills, knowledge and confidence in providing smoking cessation care, which can enhance eye health and quality of life for their patients.
Learning Objectives
- Understand who is smoking and which priority populations have higher rates of smoking
- Understand the negative impacts of smoking on health outcomes (including on eye health)
- Know how to provide fast, simple and effective brief advice in a supportive non-judgemental manner
- Understand the important role of multi-session behavioural intervention (such as Quitline) and how to refer
- Understand the different smoking cessation pharmacotherapy options available
- Know what additional resources are available to help you support people who smoke
Max CPD hours awarded: 1
Session Information
| Name |
|---|
| Smoking Cessation Brief Advice Essentials Training for Eye Health Professionals |
| Clinical? |
| Yes |
| Interactive? |
| No |
| Therapeutic? |
| No |
| Duration of CPD Session/Module |
| 1 |
| Duration of CPD Session/Module inclusive of Assessment Component |
| 1 |