Nov. 13 — UC Davis nursing students honored by county tobacco group
Several Master’s Entry Program in Nursing students from the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis were recognized by the Sacramento County Tobacco Control Coalition Nov. 13 at the coalition’s fall meeting in Mather, California, for the projects they developed to help smokers quit the habit. The students are members of two project teams who developed smoking cessation solutions in the Technology and Innovation in Health Care course led by Assistant Professor Katherine Kim. The second-year, entry-level nursing students first presented their projects at the spring coalition meeting. One group developed a program to prevent fourth- through sixth-grade students from consuming vaping products. The program incorporated super heroes and the slogan, “Wear a cape, don’t vape!” This group included Colleen De Le Vega, Irene-Cisneros Fong, Mona Keramatikhahmasouleh, Brenda Owings and Peggy Nguyen. Another group created a targeted marketing campaign, “Breaking the chains in tobacco addiction,” to help tackle smoking and smoking cessation in minority and low socioeconomic communities by addressing some of the unique challenges faced by these populations to remain tobacco free. This group included Rebecca Dalton, Jessica De La Peña, Chioma Ibeabuchi, Maria Lozano Vazquez, Jenny Phan, Alyssa Pharn and Octavia Taylor. The students’ work was honored as part of the coalition’s 22nd annual recognition event.

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