Due to a shortage of professional health workers in developing countries, the new effective strategy of task shifting is beneficial in which community or lay health workers (may be oversight from professional health-care practitioners) provide ‘front-line’ healthcare, instead of physicians and trained nurses [7]. The diseases which have chronic conditions, including infection with the HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) or AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) [8-9], diabetes mellitus [10] and some mental disorders.[11-15] need special care for long duration and hence require more attention from phy¬sicians and trained nurses. Task shifting is already being implemented as a pragmatic response to health workforce shortages to various degrees …show more content…
(2009) [19] argued that, while task shifting holds great promise, any long-term success of task shifting hinges on serious political and financial commitments. For effective implementation, task shifting requires a comprehensive and integrated reconfiguration of health teams, changed scopes of practice and regulatory frameworks and enhanced training infrastructure, as well as the availability of reliable medium- to long-term funding, with time frames of 20 to 30 years instead of three to five years. The concept and practice of community participation need to be revisited. They also argued that task shifting strategies require leadership from national governments to ensure supporting regulatory framework, regulating the implementation of enabling policies, support and guide training institutions, and ensure adequate resources, and using the support of the multiple stakeholders. With such willingness, attitude, and leadership to learn from those with relevant experience (for example, various countries from Africa like Brazil, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia), task shifting can make a vital contribution to building cost-effective, balanced, sustainable, and equitable health care systems. They also suggested that any serious commitment to task shifting requires leadership from country governments. The country government's role is to ensure an enabling policy, regulatory framework, and credentialing system, to accelerate the implementation of relevant policies and to provide required resources, guide and support training institutions to not only upgrade current training but also ensure appropriate initial and continuing education (integrated, multidisciplinary, community- and
Today, nurses play a vital role in ensuring healthy living among individuals around the world. The presence of acute and community nurses have influenced the health sector positively. These two kinds of nurses perform similar duties such as treatment, care, and monitoring of patients. Nonetheless, they operate in different community set-ups with acute nurses working in emergency rooms whereas the community treats patients in homes and schools. Both acute and community care workers offer medical treatment to their patients.
...e crucial change needed in health services delivery, with the aim of transforming the current deteriorated system into a true “health care” system. (ANA, 2010)
In conclusion, the public health nursing profession is an effective tool for providing primary care to the community. The practice existed since the 19th century; however, its significance emerged in the 21st century as a result of changing demographics and global environment. It compliments health care policies through comprehensive nursing assessment, monitoring and intervention through referrals and social support services such as education to promote self-reliance among people at risk. As a result, it is community-based intervention program that involve everyone at risk. It guides assessment of the community’s health status through an elaborate process. For example, the practice develops and prioritizes plans in accordance with research and analysis of health status such as risk factors and assets within the community.
Students should be given the option to take accelerated classes because although they may show poor results, being challenged may trigger intelligence and more potential to continue on with accelerated classes. Along with given the option to take accelerated classes the educational system should also adjust in the way of providing courses to remain creativity alive within the student throughout their whole life, instead of blocking it out and keeping them focused on just the subjects of English and math.
A nurse’s role in our society today is exceptionally significant. Nurses are somewhat idolized and looked to as our everyday “superman”. “The mission of nursing in society is to help individuals, families, and groups to determine and achieve physical, mental, and social potential, and to do so within the challenging context of the environment in which they live and work” (“The Role of a Nurse/Midwife”). Many Americans turn to nurses for delivery of primary health care services and health care education (Whelan). In our country, there is constantly someone in need of health care. There will always be a baby being born or a person dying, someone becoming ill or growing old. Some people due to their physical and/or mental state of health are completely dependent on a nurse and wouldn’t be able to get through the simple obstacles of every day, or achieve the necessary requirements of a simple day without their aid. Not only do nurses help, and assist you when you’re sick, but also act to promote good health to others. They end...
Nurses around the world collaborate with various providers and partners to address multiple challenges in the community. With emphasize on health promotion and disease prevention, nurses have an important role in delivering nursing services in the community and in the home. Challenges that impact the overall health of the community can arise from unequal access to health care or lack of insurance causing individuals do not receive healthcare. However, all nurses can help improve health outcomes and help to prevent and manage diseases. With the help of community health nurses, public health nurses, and home health nurses, the ability to provide safe and effective care for all sectors of health is possible.
The purpose of this paper is to exam a Healthy People 2020 health topic. This paper will discuss HIV; human immunodeficiency virus. This paper will assess, interpret, justify, evaluate and appraise HIV disease, its history, health statistics, preventive measures, the role of the nurse and finally an appraisal of the health programs and availability of supportive care.
Access to health care in Ethiopia has left many people without proper health care and eventual death. Millions of people living in Ethiopia die because of the lack of access to the health care system; improving the access to the healthcare system in Ethiopia can prevent many of the deaths that occur, but doing so will pose a grueling and challenging task. According to Chaya (2012), poor health coverage is of particular concern in rural Ethiopia, where access to any type of modern health institution is limited at best (p. 1). If citizen of Ethiopia had more accessibility of the healthcare system more individuals could be taught how to practice safe health practices. In Ethiopia where HIV, and maternal and infant mortality rates are sky high, more education on the importance of using the healthcare system and makin...
With advanced technology, nursing is more connected and interdependent. The nursing professional unit is able to lobby to both local and international community organizations on behalf of the African community from anywhere in the world. Funding and education are necessary for this well needed community in order to assist in a caring and positive manner to combat their diagnosis of diabetes or related symptoms. With the increase in world-wide travel, infectious diseases now spread across the world at an alarming rate. Madeline Leininger, a well-known theorist in nursing, stated that “globalization implies an ethical and moral obligation for professional nurses to enter and function in a worldwide community” (Nursing Theories, 2011b).
Networks are cooperative interactions between actors around specific issues of policy, such as the BSP, and is based on mutual trust, independent responsibilities, and reciprocity. Network governance often imposes horizontal coordination, which is built upon negotiation, and bargaining among the actors, rather than vertical authoritative approach (Bouckaert, Peters, & Verhoest, 2010). An example of network governance is particularly apparent in the implementation phase of the NBSP in the Hutt Valley and Wairarapa DHBs (National Screening Unit, 2017b). These DHBs were chosen to due to their past history of working together and a strong focus on primary health care. Network governance offers a diversity of stakeholders, and perspectives surrounding the goals, and processes of the NBSP (Head,
The improvement of health, enforcing policies, and monitoring comes from interrelationships between governmental and non-governmental entities. Since the 21st century the apparent need for an improved public health infrastructure has been a recurring topic on the state, local, and national level. In 2010 the Affordable Care Act authorized numerous clinical health reforms, a big step towards providers being accountable. {ACOs} Accountable care organizations are conducting health assessments and reporting metrics to payers. According to Magnuson and Fu, Jr., “Public health agencies must, in turn, evolve from being the only entities capable of assessing and monitoring population health to strategic and enabling partners involved in population health practice” (2014). A sense of involvement and shared work load is needed to help shift the challenges public health officials face. Public health officials promote and protect the community. With the involvement of other organizations more polices can be enforced and created to improve population
To achieve vision 2030, health sector is a key pillar through provision of accessible, quality and relevant health services to have a healthy workforce. Increasing allocation of resources, improvement in health personnel and facilities, better health management are among the strides made. However, challenges still exist due to infrastructural constraints, inadequate human resources, increasing cost of medical care, financial constraints, HIV/AIDS Pandemic, increasing non communicable diseases and high poverty levels.
I am the kind of person who likes to be in an environment that doesn’t change to often. I’m not a fan of jumping into something new. Adapting to change is one of the hardest things for me and it is the one thing that I need to work on the most. Change happens all around us every day and I need to learn how to deal with it. Change can be good. Change can be bad. It’s just what I’m going to have to work on to become a better leader.
The popular belief that multitasking is efficient, and the new-age generation is hard wired for multitasking, is highly misguided. Truth is, effective multitasking is an oxymoron. It’s not uncommon to see a person texting while walking down the street, listening to music while doing homework, or staring at a computer screen with multiple tabs and windows open. It’s hard not to multitask, given the amount of work people have to do and the non-stop information being thrown at them. People will do it as a force of habit; they think it will help them accomplish more tasks in a shorter time period. More often than not, they find it being the complete opposite. The brain can only process one activity at a time; instead, it switches gears, which takes time, reduces accuracy, distracts, and hinders creative thoughts. So, the real question should be: is multitasking actually worth the time? No, multitasking negatively affects people in all aspects of their life.
When in a leadership role, it is important to consider both the task and relationship aspects of a situation. Both of these aspects are essential in order to achieve the goal successfully. Task aspects are more or less directly related to achieving the end goal. It incorporates the actions required from a leader’s followers in order to achieve the desired results. It is much more geared towards performance than the relationship aspects are. Looking at the relationship side of leadership, it focuses more so on the followers and their well-being. A leader who is more relationship oriented will spend more time talking to their followers and trying to understand how to motivate them. They try to make more of a personal connection than task-oriented leaders do.