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Training for Health Professionals
The Stop Smoking Practitoner Programme offers a specialised course for registered Health Professionals (i.e. Nurses and Midwives. We know that health professionals have already undertaken a considerable amount of training in their chosen field and we want to acknowledge their expertise. This is why the NTS has developed the SSPP Health Professionals version of the programme. It is comprised of 3 Assessment Tasks:
Task 1: Stop Smoking Medicines.
Assessment Task 1
SSPP Task Tutorial:
Task 2: Working with your Maori/Pacific Client - (a client from a different culture from your own)
Assessment Task 2
SSPP Task Tutorial:
Task 3: Working with your Complex Needs Client
Assessment Task 3
SSPP Task Tutorial:
NTS Handbooks
Hub Foundation Training Videos
NTS 01 SSPP - Introduction
NTS 02 SSPP - Risks of Smoking
NTS 03 SSPP - Tobacco Dependence and Withdrawal
NTS 04 SSPP - Behaviour Change Techniques
NTS 05 SSPP - Complex Needs
NTS 06 SSPP - Nicotine Replacement Therapy - NRTs
NTS 07 SSPP - Prescription medicines
NTS 08 SSPP - E-Cigarettes
NTS 09 SSPP - Little Green Monster Analogy
Examples of what you could say for each Stop Smoking Medicine
Pharmacists Training
Pharmacists Training Powerpoint
Pharmacists Zoom Webinar - 17th October 2018
Grant Hocking and Edward Cowley talk about Health Professional Assessment Tasks 1, 2 and 3 for the Stop Smoking Practitioner Programme.
Pharmacists Zoom Webinar - 17th October 2018
Grant Hocking and Edward Cowley talk about Health Professional Assessment Tasks 1, 2 and 3 for the Stop Smoking Practitioner Programme.
Client Assessment Forms
What unit standards are included in the Health Professional Course?
27504 - Describe tobacco use and dependence and smoking cessation treatments.
27505 - Assess a person for tobacco dependence and support a person to develop a stop-smoking plan.
27506 - Support a person to implement a stop-smoking plan and provide on-going support to assist a person to remain smoke free.
27507 - Describe tobacco control and health promotion as ways of enhancing health through smoking cessation.
How much does it cost?
If you are part of a Ministry of Health funded Stop Smoking Service you will only need to pay a one off $85 Careerforce Fee.
How long does the course take to complete?
The programme can be completed at your own pace. The first module and assessment tasks approximately one hour to complete.
Assessments 2 & 3 are client portfolios which takes longer as they require evidence to be collected and referred to when answering questions.
How can I enrol?
Click here to complete our online registration form and someone will be in touch with you shortly.