NUR 204 - Global Health and Nursing (Week 15)

global health and one health definition

A field of academic study, research, policy, and applied practice that advances the equitable protection and improvement of populaiton and planetary health.

Legacy of international nursing

FLorence Nightingale

Traveling to places that need help the most is what nurses to well

Nurses have been known to step out of their comfort zones and travel long distances

Transcultural nursing theory

Formal area of study and proactice focused on comparative human care differences and similarities of the beliefs, values, and patterned lifeway of culures to provide culkutally congruent, meaningul, and beneficial health care to people

Lessons for global health nurses

Active listening is an essential skill to learn

Reducing inewuities through cultural awareness - when nurses recieve training in providing nonjudegemental care, deep-rooted prejudices cna arise

Cultural humility - a ligelong commitment to self-evaluation and critique, to redressing the power imnbalances in the physician-patient dynamic

Savior complex- sometimes health care workers view themselves as those who can save others when that unmistakably is not necessarily the case

Organizations dedicated to improving worldwide health

CDC and World Health Organization