¶ … Nursing 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...

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…