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% of Nurses that smoke

I have been working in the medical field for a few years and I was very surprised to find the number of nurses and other healthcare workers that smoke. I found this statistic on a few different websites that I found interesting.

"the number of registered nurses who smoked dropped from 11 percent in 2007 to 7 percent in 2011, the study found. That's an overall decrease of 36 percent, and nearly three times higher than the 13 percent decline in smoking among the general population during the same period."

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    When I started in nursing it seemed EVERYBODY smoked. I remember well the ashtrays in the nursing lounge filled with butts and half burning cigarettes, the physcians lighting up at the nurse's station and, as long as they were not on oxygen, patients and family members burning one in the patient rooms. It was a different time... one of starched white uniforms, polished shoes and caps, timing IV flows with a wristwatch (no pumps then), glass IV bottles you had to vent with an 18 ga. needle, mixing your own piggy backs, pouring meds from large bottles into med cups, carrying narcotics keys around your neck, rotating bp cuffs, leather restraints and 'Brompton's Cocktail' .... having to actually use your eyes, ears and nose as part of a nursing evaluation ....

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    With vaping / e-cigs being so popular now, I'm curious---do hospitals and other healthcare facilities allow this in designated

    areas? I used to "survive" my shifts with nictotine gum! I was SO

    thankful for that gum----but the more stressful the shift, the more my jaw would hurt after! :o

    We used to work with a wonderful doctor who would occasionally sneak a ciggie in the STAIRWAYS!!!! I guess he got

    away with it because it was only in the late evening, and the "suits" weren't around?

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