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.

Eating healthy is living healthy. The biggest challenge, however, today is associated with poor nutrition and harmful lifestyle. The rise in diseases such as obesity and diabetes is attributed to lack of awareness on preventive and control measures of such infections. The learners are the best disseminator of knowledge and they ought to be educated on how to manage the nutrition to prevent such diseases.

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.

Learners should be involved in community-based work. They need to be equipped with the necessary skills that can enable them to exercise disease prevention. Such capabilities would be of great help in case there are emergencies or outbreaks in the society they can attend to the victims. In exercises, such as vaccination they can always facilitate the process in one way or another.

The nursing professionals ought to be engaged with workshops and courses. This is an ideal open door for them to learn about the treats within their settings. They will too get an opportunity to gain from their distinctive challenges and prevention strategies of their associates. This will help them be mindful of conceivable approaches that can help them as individuals as well as the community.




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