Nursing Course Project Milestone #3: Peer Review

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Course Project Milestone #3: Peer Review Form

To complete a peer review on another students draft for change capstone project, identifying strengths and weakness with recommendations for improvement.

Directions: Complete the peer review form below with information obtained from one of your peers draft for change capstone project.

Title of Peer's Change Project:

Introduction of the Change Project

Identify and describe the strengths of the change project. Identify and describe areas in which the plan and/or introduction can be improved.

The strength of this project is that it focuses on encouraging the patients to cease tobacco smoking, a subject that is very rarely taken up by rehab houses. Since there are a number of diseases including HIV and Tuberculosis that have been linked with the use of tobacco and nicotine, encouraging the patients to give up smoking will do great benefit to the society and the health care department. As studies have concluded, this would directly affect the addictive behaviors of the patient in a more effective way. This plan can be improved if the studies pertaining to the rates of relapses in the aforementioned patients are documented to establish a relationship between the effectiveness of the program and cessation of smoking in individuals.

Rosswurm & Larabee's Six-Step Change Plan

Identify the six-step change plan noting areas of strength and areas in which the student could improve.

The first step of this model is to assess the problem. In this article the problem that is being addressed is that the use of tobacco has been linked with addictive behaviors. The second step is to link the problem with the interventions and their outcomes. This can be considered the area of improvement in this article since there is no mention of other interventions that have been used in the past and their outcomes. Also, the relationship between relapses and tobacco smoking has not been established. Evidence is the third step. Where required, evidence in the form of statistics has been provided in this article. The fourth step is to design in a change in practice. A number of different approaches have been suggested in this paper for encouraging the patients to give up smoking. The involvement of pharmacological agents, peers and family have also been stressed upon. The fifth step is that of implementation of the change project. There is not enough evidence provided in the paper pertaining to the implementation of the change project. The final step is to integrate and then maintain the change project. There is not adequate evidence about the success rate of this project and how it is being integrated with other projects.

Summary

Identify the key concepts within the summary and suggest to the student what within the summary could be improved.

This journal article revolves around the role of tobacco cessation for the prevention of addictive behaviors. In this article, it has been shown that almost 60% of the people who are aged above 12 have indulged in some kind of drugs, almost always starting from tobacco. Nicotine and tobacco plays the role of a bridge between a person and his indulgence in drugs. Since cigarette smoking is a socially accepted norm, it is kind of difficult to treat people who want or have to give up smoking. The intervention for cessation of smoking that has been explained in this paper includes pharmacological method, counseling, peer and family support. It should also be noted that the specific relationship between cessation of smoking and relapse of drug abuse has not yet been established.