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.

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.

They should also be outfitted with the fundamental abilities that can empower them to practice disease counteractive action in the community. Such attitudes would be of incredible help on the off chance that there are crises or episodes in the group they can take care of the casualties. They can always take part in assisting the professionals to facilitate a smooth healthcare promotion program in the community.

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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