Question

Complete Journaling Activity 8-1 on pg. 259. Answer the 2 questions using the assessment tools found in the chapter and document your findings to be handed in to the instructor at the end of the Community class.

1.In your clinical journal, describe a situation you have encountered when conducting health exams or health promotion activities. What did you learn from this experience? How will you practice differently based on this experience?

2. In your clinical diary, describe a situation in which you have observed infants or children who did not receive the disease prevention or health promotion services they needed. How would you like this defender of this problem? What could you do now?

Answer 1

1.Conducting health exams and health promotion activities in a coimmunity leel is a tiresome task.Last month our hospital conducted a Cancer prevention campaign in a rural setting.People from all walks of life attended the camp.Within a few hours it was filled with patients .As the waiting times grew,one of the patient became aggressive and he began to shout angrily ,raising fists against the health care practice.Finally we had to call the police to control the situation.It was an unfortunate incident ,when i recalled back i felt that i should have approached the situation in a different angle.Because even anger over long wait times can mask the fear of of not knowing what is wrong with them.if similiar incident is to happen again i will interview the patient to draw out what they are feeling using reflective statements uch as i can understand why you feel that way and try to discusss possible solutions with them.

2 In an immunization awareness program which included an health survey in a community setting.it was found that many of the infants were not taken vaccination.When we further inquired about it we found that the reasons why the parents denied vaccination to their infants is due to numerable reasons.Today parents may not have seen a case of a vaccine-preventable disease first hand.Therefore they might wonder if vaccines are really necessary and believe that the risks of vaccinating infants outweigh the benefits of protecting them from infection with vaccin-preventable diseases.One sollution is to remind the parents about the ongoing efforts to ensure the safety of vaccines,including the large scale reporting system.Also i would tell them that when we were babies we were not so fortunate to get all vaccines as like that of now and that put us into risk of serious diseases like Hib and pneumococcal meningitis.But today we are lucky to protect our babies from 14 serious diseases with vaccines.