Friday, May 25, 2018

Strategic 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.

Among the diseases that are becoming common among the population nowadays are the lifestyle diseases among which the diabetes. Such infections should be brought to the attention of learners as one way of helping them manage their health by eating right. On the other side, they will use the knowledge to enlighten the society by sharing the experience they have on nutrition.

The environment where one stays can have a more significant impact on the genesis and development of the infections. The practitioners ought to understand that the physical, social context can change the course of the infection. They have to enlighten the community and probably come up with strategies towards promoting a safe and healthy environment to minimize the disease exposure.

One of the best ways to promote healthcare is by mobilizing people to go for early testing and screening rather than wait until they are sick. In fact, as a way of fostering such programs, some countries have ensured such services are free. The learners should also be made aware of such essential services and encouraged to create more awareness to the public on the need for early clinical screening.

The government and the non-governmental organizations have come up with many health promotion policies, for instance, banning smoking in public among others. Unfortunately, some of these policies have not been taken seriously. The students should, therefore, take part in mobilizing the public to respect the policies by perhaps passing the messages to the public regarding the importance of the procedures.

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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