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<strong>2016</strong> Alabama <strong>State</strong> <strong>Nurses</strong> <strong>Association</strong> <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Convention</strong> References 1. The Health Consequences of Smoking—50 Years of Progress: A Report of the Surgeon General, 2014 Atlanta, Georgia: U.S. DEpartment of Health and Human Services,Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health;2014. 2. Goriounova NA, Mansvelder HD. Short- and Long-Term Consequences of Nicotine Exposure during Adolescence for Prefrontal Cortex Neuronal Network Function. Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine. 2012;2(12):10.1101/cshperspect.a012120 a012120. 3. Allen JG, Flanigan SS, LeBlanc M, et al. Flavoring Chemicals in E-Cigarettes: Diacetyl, 2,3-Pentanedione, and Acetoin in a Sample of 51 Products, Including Fruit-, Candy-, and Cocktail-Flavored E-Cigarettes. Environ. Health Perspect. 2015. 4. Vasiljevic M, Petrescu DC, Marteau TM. Impact of advertisements promoting candy-like flavoured e-cigarettes on appeal of tobacco smoking among children: an experimental study. Tob. Control. <strong>2016</strong>. 5. Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. Vol Pub. L. No. 111-31, 123 Stat. (codified, in relevant part, at 15 U.S.C.A. §§ 1333-34 and 21 U.S.C.A. § 301 et seq.2010. Submitted by COPI- Dr. Marilyn Sullivan, Chair Communicating with Deaf Clients Education WHEREAS WHEREAS WHEREAS WHEREAS WHEREAS RESOLVED RESOLVED RESOLVED The state of Alabama has approximately 84,000 or almost 3% of the population who are deaf (Harrington, 2014), and Communication barriers between deaf patients and their non-deaf medical providers, whether it be their physician, nurse, or nurses aid, continues to be a huge problem in the healthcare world and an even bigger problem to the deaf community who receive inadequate medical attention, privacy breaches, and unnecessary stress during medical care/treatment, and The Institute of Medicine established six aims for improving the health care delivery systems stating health care should be safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable (IHI, <strong>2016</strong>), and Written communication and spoken English are considered secondary languages to Sign Language, and <strong>Nurses</strong> can play a crucial role in communicating with the patient population in a variety of settings, therefore be it The Alabama <strong>State</strong> <strong>Nurses</strong> <strong>Association</strong> (ASNA) will challenge nurses across the state to attend continuing education regarding communicating with the Deaf, and be it further That the ASNA will notify membership of available continuing education that is available online and in person within the <strong>State</strong> of Alabama, and be it further resolved That the ASNA will publish an article in The Alabama Nurse and will provide a link to information about Communicating with Deaf Clients. Submitted by COPI Dr. Marilyn Sullivan, Chair Harrington, T. (2014) Deaf statistics. Gallaudet University Library. Retrieved from http://libguides.gallaudet.edu/content.php?pid=119476&sid=1029190 Institute for Healthcare Improvement. (<strong>2016</strong>). Across the chiasm: Six aims for changing the healthcare system. [Institute of Medicine] Retrieved http://www.ihi.org/resources/pages/improvementstories/acrossthechasmsixaimsforchangingthehealthcaresystem.aspx 25