In: Nursing
When I tried to apply knowledge in social determinants not known among my colleagues, was it challenging for me? What did I think at the time? Did I feel supported by colleagues? Did applying the new knowledge improve my patient’s outcome?
Nursing is a profession in which we are providing care to the patients. So it is very important to identify and know about the social determinants of the patient and the society.
Knowledge about the social determinants will help to identify the patient problems and needs so this will reflect on the patient care and made care more effective.
Educating about the social determinants is difficult or challenging, because there are many social determinants and they are differ from patient to patient.
As we understood about the social determinants it make easy to identify the patient problems and we can made appropriate care and management to patients problems