Question

Explain what global health is and how it relates to population health.

Reflect on how they apply to your current or future profession as a Patient care assistant.

In relation to the patient or client, what is your role as a healthcare professional?

What do you know and understand about advocacy?

What opportunities for advocacy do you see in your current or future career?

Answer 1

1. Explain what global health is and how it relates to population health.

Global Health is defined as an area for concept of study, research in field of helath, and practices that gives a priority on improving health of the people and create equity in the field of health towards the people of the whole world.

It is directly related to the population of the entire world, as health problems have no national borders or global politics involved in them, there is a universal economic impact and health threats disregarding the nation or nationality.

2 Reflect on how they apply to your current or future profession as a Patient care assistant.

In an era of global pandemic the health care assistant plays a global role the patient care assistant has current roles in hospital, clinics, nursing home, community and home settings. The future scopes have started as patient care assistance needed in the area of infection control / decontamination zones and air and other travel control and thus has increased the scope and view of the care towards the people. The boundaries of the pandemic showed the health care assistants were vulnerable self that they were suffering with exposure. Future scope would lead to improvement in the on-going battle for equality and laws to safeguard the care providers

3. In relation to the patient or client, what is your role as a healthcare professional?

Health care professionals are the centre of the care as they implement what the physicians have prescribed.

Roles in hospital

· Follow care directives

· Documentation and admission and discharge processing

· Advance care planning

· Involving and helping in decision making

· Helping and supporting General practioner

· Make families with user-friendly information about advance care planning

· Discuss treatment options

· Support the resident/family to document their advance care plan,

· Store copies of care plan and advance care

· Implement plan of action according the needs of patient

· Regular hourly monitoring

· Comprehensive medical assessments and care,

· Care when conditions change or deteriorates

· Sterilising equipment

· Checking, restocking and processing lab samples like taking blood samples, carrying out health promotion or health education work.

Roles in community

· Provide user-friendly information and explain care planning

· Provide information about further support care if needed

· Identify existing health problems and education

· Record details of community planning and conversations of community records

· Refer to hospital, organisation and other health care facilities when in need

· Implement the directives of the community safety and care

4. What do you know and understand about advocacy?

In nursing profession, advocacy means preserving human dignity, promoting patient equality, and providing freedom from suffering. It's also about ensuring that patients have the right to make decisions about their own health.

5. What opportunities for advocacy do you see in your current or future career?

The nursing has always given importance to patient care irrespective of caste, creed and ethnicity. Nursing and nurses have always held human dignity to the highest, it is also about ensuring the patients right to care, right to freedom of expression, right for care and all the human rights are protected. The future of the advocacy has put a light on safeguarding in the nursing homes and nursing community areas where there was large devastating effects during the pandemic era. Protection of large population before they come to hospitals and caring them when the advancement of disease is still at its local stage prevents the large scale damage. Nurses instinctively advocate for their patients, in their workplaces, and in their communities. The future role is to legislatively and politically follow advocacy towards advancing the profession and patient care.