Explain how a community nurse can decrease or prevent the occurrence of an infectious disease, chronic illness or safety concern the community is at high risk for. Using the community assessment, describe how you would educate your community on primary, secondary and tertiary care based using this illness or infectious disease.
To begin primary prevention looks to prevent the occurrence of the infectious disease prior to it occurring. As it relates to an issue such as water safety preventative tactics must be employed. As a community nurse I would first look to leverage partnerships with governments and businesses. Here, a collective effort is required in order to provide quality water to residents. For one, governments typically own the infrastructure used to help prevent infections within vulnerable communities. This infrastructure includes public government jobs, mission critical utilities such as utilizes, highways, airports and so forth. Infection diseases are particularly pertinent during areas of large public gatherings. Many of which governments own. As a community nurse to prevent the occurrence of an infectious disease it is important to emphasize personal protections. These protections can include areas with large gathering, protective clothing or equipment and even vaccinations. All of these procedures...
In addition, advocation of immunizations are also...…to cultural sensitivity. They should also be mindful of how to properly supplement proper nutrition within the overall treatment plan. Community nurses should also engage with African Americans on a much more personal level to properly develop trust within the treatment options and to mitigate distrust within the community.The issues related to these African Americans with disabilities are deep rooted a require a comprehensive approach to mitigate them. For one, many minorities, particular African Americans, mistrust the healthcare system overall due to atrocities committed against them over many centuries. Here, those with disabilities are often reluctant to use healthcare systems or treatment plans for their ailments. Likewise, African Americans with disabilities are often lower on the socio-economic rung and…
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