Question

Using one of the four major ethical concepts (beneficence, nonmalificence, autonomy or justice) discuss the community nurses' role in prevention of a communicable disease (be specific). Use the CDC website as one of your outside sources.

Answer 1

• Community health nurse acts as educators, disease and injury prevention specialists, researcher, emergency preparedness experts, public health liaison and health care professionals
• They focus on long and short term care of disease prevention
• They work with patients who supports diabetes control
• They have a major role to prevent infant mortality
• They enhance individual and community health literacy through teaching, educating and coaching
• A CHN can improve health outcomes of patients and care teams
• CHN promotes vaccines to prevent Hepatitis B infection and infections with HPV strains that cause cancer
• To prevent Infectious diseases, the role of CHN Includes- Responding rapidly to outbreaks and unusual health events- Increasing the understanding of infectious diseases including factors contributing to transmission and disease progression- Track and investigate foodborne diseases in collaboration with state and local health departments, working rapidly to identify the sources and contain their spread
• Reduce HIV incidence-Increasing access to care and improving health outcomes for persons with HIV infection- Reducing HIV related health disparities
• Provide Safe water, Good sanitation and Hygeinic activities to prevent control of diseases
• Strengthen public health fundamentals, including infectious disease surveillance, laboratory detection and epidemiologic investigation
• Identify and implement high - impact public health interventions to prevent infectious diseases
• Develop and advance policies to prevent , detect and control infectious diseases
• Finally, In a Nutshell, the main concerns of CHN are Antimicrobial resistance, Chronic viral hepatitis, Food Safety, HIV, Health Care associated infections, Respiratory infections, Safe water, Vaccine preventable diseases, Zoonotic and Vectorborne diseases