tobacco free policy

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Our facility will soon be tobacco-free, meaning patients will not be allowed to go outside to smoke. MD will not be allowed to write order "ok to smoke". Have you encountered this policy and HOW IN THE WORLD was it enforced? I forsee lots of nurses getting complaints. Please advise on ways nurses can handle the complaints.

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you are on the front line. yours is to explain the policy and let them deal with it. they may be upset, but many things upset people. you deal with it the same way you do other complaints. after a while, they will get used to it cause it's a nationwide trend and it's not ending.

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