Question

ESSENTIALS & PRACTICE IN GLOBAL HEALTH NURSING

Define the Social Determinants of Health approach.

Describe the relationship between equity, social justice, and the social determinants of health.

Examine how nurses and health professionals can engage to address social determinants to promote in the right to health.

Identify key moral principles and models of responsibility used to guide health professionals.

Describe the professional Nursing Code of Ethics and their implications for addressing global health issues.

Describe concepts of global ethics and global citizenship and how these concepts can enhance professional development and nursing practice.

Answer 1

ESSENTIAL AND PRACTICE IN GLOBAL HEALTH NURSING

1.Define social determinants of Health approach;

'Social determinants of health are conditions inthe environments in which people are born,live,learn,work,play workship and age that affect a wide range of health functioning and quality of life outcomes and risks'.

Social determinants of health;

*Health and health care

*Social and community contest

*Education

*Economic stability

*Neighbourhood and built environment

2.Describe the relationship between equity,social justice and social determinants of health

Equity is concerned with fairness and social justice and aims to focus on a concern for peoples needs ,instead of providing services that reach the greatest number of people.The debate on equaity and social justice and equality and inequality is ongoing.Social determinants helps to determants the health of an individual.This will help to know about the deficiency diseases and also helps to provide supplymantery to individuals.

3.Examine how nurses and health professionals can engage to address social determinants to promote in the right to health.

*AWARNESS:Awarness should be focused on identifying the social risk and assets of specific patients and populations of patients.

*ADJUSTMENT:Instead of addressing social needs directly health care organisations can pursue a strategy that focuses of adjusting clinical care to address social determinants of health.

*ASSISTANCE:Health care organisation can pursue strategies to connect patients with social needs to goventment and community resources.

*ALIGNMENT:Healthcare providers can pursue on alignment strategy that asses the social care assets in the community organises those assets to promote team work across organisations and investes in assets to impact health outcomes.

*ADVOCACY:Health care provider can form alliances with social care organisation to advocate for policies that promote to the creation and distribution of assets or resources to address social determinants of health.

*IMPLIMENTING THE 5 STRATEGIES:Assesing the level of social needs activities should be a starting point for health care organisation that want to address social determinants of health.The chairperson of the nation acadamies commities told health leaders.

4. Identify Key Moral principles and models of responsibilities used to guide health care professionals.

6 Moral principles of healthcare ethics are:

*Autonomy

*Beneficence

*Non-Maleficence

*Justice

*Fidelity

*veracity

Models of behaviour change:

*Learning and conditioning

*Cognitive social learning

*Health belief model

*Theory of reasoned action

*Stages-of-change model or Transtheoritical model

*Social action theory

5.Describe the professional nursing code of ethics and the implications for adressing global health issues.

A code of ethics is a formal statement of a groups ideals and values.It is a set of ethical principles that (a)Is shared by the members of the group,(b)Reflects their moral judgements overtime,and(c)Serves as a standard for a professional action.Nurses are responsible for being familiar with the code that governs their practice.

Code of ethics for nursing in india:

*The nurse respects the uniqueness of individual in provission of care:Provides care for individuals without consideration of cast,creed,religion,culture,ethinicity,gender,and political status.

*The nurse respect the rights of individuals as partner in care and help in making informed choices;Appriciates individuals right to make decisions.Respect the decision made by the individual.

*The nurse respects individual rights to privacy,maintaince confidentiality,and shares informations judiciously.

*Nurse maintaince competence inorder to renter quality nursing care;Nursing care must be provided only by registered nurse.Nurse strives to maintain quality nursing care and upholds the standards of care.

*The nurse obliged to practice within the framework of ethical professional and legal boundaries;Adheres to code of ethics code of professionals conduct for nurses in india developed by indian nursing counciling.

*Nurse is obliged to work harmoniously with members of the healthteam;Appriciates the team efforts in rendering care.Coorperates,coordinates,and collaborates with the members of the health team to meet the needs of peoples.

*Nurse commits to reciprocate the trust invested in nursing profession by society;Demonstrates personal etiquettes in all deals.demonstrates professionals attributes in all deals.

6.Describe concepts of global ethics and global citizenship and how these concepts can enhance professional development and nursing practice.

A global citizen is someone who is committed to certain values,attitudes and behaviours.This person is acquainted with the basic ethics required for a socially appropriate bahaving and sustainable social relationships amoung the members of his/her community.

The cocepts of global citizenship and global ethics helps the nurses to maintain good nurse patient relationship and should respect the individuals decisions opinions etcand promotes the patients to cop-up with the stressfull situations.