Question

negative health behaviors consist of poor choices that we make in regards to out lifestyle. As a patient, what would you think and how would you react if the nurse taking your vital signs smelled of cigarette smoke? Write one well-written paragraph.

Answer 1

We all hold health care providers to a certain standard. They tell us what's good for us and bad for us. Doctors tell us to eat healthy and to never smoke. If the nurse taking my vital signs smelled of cigarette smoke I would immediately feel uneasy. The smell of cigarette smoke is very thick and heavy and can even make a non smoker have trouble breathing which could change my vitals. Just because the nurse smelled like smoke, now my respiration rate is inaccurate because I was breathing slower than I would normally breathe in order to not get the smoke smell in my body. If healthcare professionals are going to smoke they should do it when they aren't on-call.

Answer 2

Smoking is not a healthy habit for anyone being a healthcare professional or not. Although the harms of smoking are known to the entire population, it is not uncommon for health professionals to resort to this addiction and to smoke high amounts of cigarettes. Although this is harmful, we cannot complain when a nurse comes to us and smells like a cigarette. Although we know that the nurse is acting wrong when smoking, if she does her job properly, her smoking is none of our business and will not hinder our health. The problem would be if the nurse is smoking inside the hospital, this would be impermissible because she would be endangering the health of others who would become passive smokers.