Friday, May 25, 2018

Exclusive Health Promotion For Minority Nurses And Students

By Kenneth Mitchell


In the past medical experts believed that the best way to deal with a disease is by administering remedial measures. It has occurred that this is not enough since the patient ought to be educated more on how to manage and control diseases at the personal level as a way of preventing and minimizing the spread of the infection. Nurses spend a lot of time with the patients and play a crucial role in disease control and prevention. Here are the strategies for health promotion for minority nurses and students.

First, they need to access healthcare education to be in a position to acquire the right skills that can help them control their health and that of a community. The government study curriculum should include valuable topics that enlighten and equip them with the knowledge that they can later pass it on to the community. For instance topics on drug abuse will teach them on how to reduce respiratory infections.

The best way to prevent most diseases for instance diabetes, obesity among others is by educating the community on how to live healthily. This encompasses the nutrition, the exercises, and vaccination among other measures that will minimize the exposure of a person to diseases. They need to come up with the strategies that can empower the society and bring to their attention lifestyle infections.

Majority of pathogens are acquired from the environmental settings. One way to eradicate such disease-causing microorganisms would be by making the learners aware of such infectious agents. The nurses ought to be made aware of nosocomial infections and how to take great care of them. There are also issues to do with the environmental hygiene, which is paramount to disease prevention.

It is not always easy to spot a disease whose signs have not yet come out apparently. This does not necessarily mean that it is until one is sick for them to be diagnosed with a particular disorder. The practitioners should advocate for measures such as frequent clinical screening. They ought to encourage and educate the public on the importance of early testing and screening programs.

The learners out to be aware of the critical intervention policies that have been put in place to reduce exposure to infections, minimize spread as well as those intended to eradicate the disease. This is on the way that they will at individual level, change their behavior as well as help their communities from avoiding the restricted behaviors that go against the policies.

Disease outbreaks are things that cannot be predicted. However, prevention is better than cure. Health practitioners like nurses and students can help in the prevention in many ways like distribution of impregnated mosquito nets to prevent the outbreak of malaria and to conduct vaccination of children under the age of five for diseases like measles.

The nursing practitioners the students should be involved in workshops and seminars. This is a perfect opportunity for them to learn about the treats that individual and the community face. They will as well get a chance to learn from the different challenges of their colleagues in different parts. This will help them be aware of possible ways to prevent different infections.




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