. Nurses actions on global health can be limited by lack of knowledge about the diseases and the conditions in the global communities, lack of time and financial resources to travel abroad to assist in health promotion activities and lack of influence on the governments in the global communities. The lack of knowledge can be addressed by education. Nursing education should include global diseases and emerging diseases to enhance the understanding of nurses and increase their awareness of the global health as well as transmission of global and emerging diseases. Nurses can address lack of time and resources to travel abroad by providing expertise from their local communities through technology. They can provide education for global communities
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Nightingale’s philosophy of a holistic approach to nursing provides guidance for nurses in addressing diseases that intrude into humans from animals. Nightingale’s holistic approach required “integration and collaboration with medicine, environment, family and society” (Payne, 2010, p. 10). The integration and collaboration between society and the environment is key in emerging diseases because some of these diseases develop “largely because of human encroachment” in the environment (Robbins, 2012). The collaborative approach can guide nurses to work with the environmental organizations in societies with emerging diseases in consideration of a global …show more content…
In the Nightingale approach, problem-solving is “grounded in human needs and the natural world” and nursing care for the soldiers involved “bathing them, freeing them of dirty, gore caked uniforms” (Payne, 2010, p. 10). The humanitarian approach and focus on cleanliness is an important framework for emerging diseases because some of the diseases spread through unclean environments. For example, the Hendra virus spread from bats to pigs and then to humans when “a bat dropped a piece of chewed meat into a piggery in a forest” (Robbins, 2012). The environmental condition of the pigs and humans facilitated the spread of the virus from bats to humans. Guided by the humanitarian philosophy, nurses would respond to humanitarian needs of people throughout the world with a willingness to travel to the areas of devastation and to advocate for the needs of the sick. Payne (2010) argues that today’s nurses must be like Florence Nightingale and become “scientists, humanitarians, environmentalists, policy makers, social activists, communicators, facilitators and caregivers” (p.
Nightingale’s philosophy of a holistic approach to nursing provides guidance for nurses in addressing diseases that intrude into humans from animals. Nightingale’s holistic approach required “integration and collaboration with medicine, environment, family and society” (Payne, 2010, p. 10). The integration and collaboration between society and the environment is key in emerging diseases because some of these diseases develop “largely because of human encroachment” in the environment (Robbins, 2012). The collaborative approach can guide nurses to work with the environmental organizations in societies with emerging diseases in consideration of a global …show more content…
In the Nightingale approach, problem-solving is “grounded in human needs and the natural world” and nursing care for the soldiers involved “bathing them, freeing them of dirty, gore caked uniforms” (Payne, 2010, p. 10). The humanitarian approach and focus on cleanliness is an important framework for emerging diseases because some of the diseases spread through unclean environments. For example, the Hendra virus spread from bats to pigs and then to humans when “a bat dropped a piece of chewed meat into a piggery in a forest” (Robbins, 2012). The environmental condition of the pigs and humans facilitated the spread of the virus from bats to humans. Guided by the humanitarian philosophy, nurses would respond to humanitarian needs of people throughout the world with a willingness to travel to the areas of devastation and to advocate for the needs of the sick. Payne (2010) argues that today’s nurses must be like Florence Nightingale and become “scientists, humanitarians, environmentalists, policy makers, social activists, communicators, facilitators and caregivers” (p.