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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.

The nursing practitioners and students form a significant and crucial part in the medical setting. They need to be equipped with the best skills to help the patients overcome diseases. They need to have comprehensive health education for them to know what they should do to provide the right support and interventions for the community. They should be able to apply the knowledge necessary.

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.

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.

They need to be involved in seminars, medical camps among other forums. This will bring them to light on the emerging and re-emerging issues that can increase the disease prevalence. They will also gain in-depth knowledge on how to handle a variety of infection cases. The personal skills they will develop will help them a great deal in giving support to the society.




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