Question

Provision 8: “The nurse collaborates with other health professionals and the public in promoting community, national and international efforts to meet health needs.”

5. To what extent are medical personnel responsible for caring for community, national, and international health care needs? Comment on each type of need: community, national, and international. What role does an individual, a hospital system, and the larger federal government play?

Provision 9: “The profession of nursing value, for maintaining the integrity of the profession and its practice, and for shaping social policy.”

6. In your own words, define integrity as it relates to nursing. Can personal and professional integrity be separated? In other words, can a person have little personal integrity but maintain professional integrity? Why or why not? We will discuss ethical concerns of vulnerable populations at another point in the class. However, briefly note the role of ethics in shaping social policy in health care.

Answer 1

Provision 8:

To what extent are medical personnel responsible for caring for community, national, and international health care needs?

1. Community:

The nurse or medical personnel

• identifies needs of the families in the community area
• conducts surveys on vital statistics
• Provide counselling on various health conditions
• Conduct checks on disaster management
• Organise health camps on various national programs
• Integrate in school health services
• Introduce health programs in the community
• Study on disease outbreaks following a natural calamity

2. National :

• Introduce health programs at various states of the country
• Conducts surveys on various diseases
• Organise disaster management programs
• Educate public on non communicable diseases
• Conduct survey on the spread of season wise communicable diseases
• Conduct family surveys to know about any illness among members
• Educate public on various centers for tertiary care
• Conduct immunization as a part of prevention of communicable diseases
• Promote institutional deliveries
• Conduct community out reach programs
• Coordinate with non government organizations

3. International:

• Coordinate with international agencies on funding for various research or projects on health promotion
• Integrate the updates of health at community and national levels through international collaborato
• Encourage training programs through international agencies on various health care services at community levels

4. Hospital System:

• Promotion of better patient outcomes
• Reduce the length of hospital stays
• Reduce the mortality rates in terms of health outcomes
• Reduce the rate of hospital acquired infections
• Promote patient safety
• Mainatain employee satisfaction through staff development and welfare programs
• Care of vulnerable patients

5. Federal governing body:

• Incooporates health care services at national and community levels
• Promotion of health programs
• Enactment of health acts and legislations
• Integration of health care policies in rural health
• Conduct survey of vital statistics to analyse data at global level

Provision 9:

“The profession of nursing value, for maintaining the integrity of the profession and its practice, and for shaping social policy.”

1. In your words, define integrity as it relates to nursing.

• Integrity in nursing practice means practicing the profession with honesty, accountability and ethical grounds.

2. Can personal and professional integrity be separated?

• Personal integrity is the integrity that is applied in personal life and professional integrity is applied in professional relationships.Both are different and has their own roles.

3. In other words can a person have little personal integrity but maintain professional integrity?

• It is individual based and solely depends on a person to maintain integrity in both personal and professional level at same time.Both are required and is essential so as to have a balance in work, rest and recreation

​​​​​​​4.briefly note the role of ethics in shaping social policy in health care?

• Ethics is a practice of applying ethical principles of autonomy, non maleficience, beneficience, veracity, fidelity in the nursing profession.
• These are vital to have effective health care policy that shapes the society
• autonomy is the ethical principle that helps to improve the decision making process of partients and family in health care
• Non maleficience focus doing no harm to the patients to whom we provide care
• Beneficience focus on doing good to the patients with health care services that improve health outcomes
• Veracity focus on maintaining truth in health care services
• Fidelity is the way how we treat every patients with equal respect while we deliver health care