A nurse works in a university health clinic. The nurse is concerned about the number of students smoking on campus. While developing a policy for this issue, what does the nurse need to do in order to take gender into consideration?

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The nurse needs to gather information and consider stakeholder perspectives about whether services are gender appropriate because smoking habits and patterns can differ by gender, and the policy needs to take these differences into consideration in order to be effective. Making assumptions or individual decisions may not be based on appropriate evidence and may not address the root causes of smoking on campus. Finding evidence to support smoking as the leading cause of death in women is important, but it may not necessarily address the issue of smoking on campus.

A Nurse Works in a University Health Clinic