How to make a difference as a nurse

How to make a difference as a nurse
Nursing is known around the world as an unselfish job because nurses sacrifice their own health to take care of the community as a whole. In today’s society, it is important for nurses to use their power and personal relationships with their patients to make a difference. They should use what they’ve learned to solve modern problems that affect society as a whole. I chose to focus on infection control and prevention in schools and the community by using technology to make sure kids wash their hands.

Figuring out what to say

Students face a lot of health problems every day in a lot of places around the world where schools are a big part of the community. Most of these health problems are caused by diseases and risk factors that are easy to avoid. With the reopening of schools and the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important to think about how we as a community can live with the virus. As parents struggle to work with their kids from home, the reopening of schools should be dealt with in a strong and inclusive way. Both short-term and long-term solutions should be looked at. This is why technology should be a part of the solution.

In schools, health education should stress the importance of good hand cleanliness along with other ways to stop infections during this pandemic. Several studies have shown that handwashing is important, and Michael et al. (2017) say that students should interact with each other and use their hands in almost all of their tasks. Lawson and Vaganay-Miller (2019) say that germs can live on a person’s hands for up to an hour. This is because hands are the most common way to carry and spread microorganisms. People move the bacteria on their hands through a variety of activities. So, it’s important to teach people how to clean their hands properly and to make sure they do it right.

The main idea is that learning institutions can avoid infections by putting in place automated hand hygiene monitoring systems that can catch alcohol-based swabs.

All of this can be done easily by putting a tag on a student’s smart badge that lets it keep track of how often they wash their hands. It can also have alarms that send messages to the students’ phones to remind them to wash their hands at certain times. This can help keep track of how often students wash their hands (Edmisten et al., 2017). It can also give important feedback on real-time hand hygiene measures and encourage students to stick to them.Why the message is important

To reduce the number of illnesses that can be prevented by washing your hands, which can affect students in a variety of ways and slow down their educational progress. This saves families money that they would have spent on medical bills. Long-term, stop students from dropping out of school, and finally, move the money used by school administrations to treat illnesses in school clinics to departments that help students learn more, like developing their talents.

Success by getting my idea out

As health care providers, infection prevention should always be of the utmost importance when promoting health. This is because it includes simple things that anyone can do to improve public health. I hope that learning institutions that agree to take part will keep track of students who use good hand hygiene by installing automated hand hygiene monitoring systems that can take alcohol-based swabs. Electronic tracking of how well kids clean their hands will make it easy to keep track of all of them. In turn, I want to see a drop in the number of bugs that students get because they don’t wash their hands properly. I hope that this word about preventing infections will be taken seriously by health care workers and sent to the right places as soon as possible.

Timing

Nurses can expect this to be fully implemented in three months. During this time, students can be introduced to the program and feedback can be made on how well it works. Positive feedback from the first steps, which showed that the number of infections caused by learners not washing their hands properly was going down, can be used to expand the program to more schools. Things to think about include the size of the institution, where it is located, and how much money is available in each institution.

There will be problems, such as figuring out how much the program will cost and how to pay for it, getting students interested, making sure the program fits into the school curriculum, and coming up with health-promoting and child-friendly policies in each state (World Health Organization, 2019). To get around these problems, everyone involved should be told how important it is to move quickly on this issue. Positive feedback from the first feedback can be compared to the learner’s decrease in disease burden and the community’s decrease in disease burden.

What I’ve learned from this task

As a nurse, it’s important to keep up with the latest trends and come up with ideas that will have a good effect on society. One way to give back to society is to suggest simple steps that can be taken to improve the health of people living in our society. Nurses should always try to get their ideas across on all the different platforms they can use to help society. (Mason et al., 2018) says that nurses are only vaguely portrayed in the media because they don’t accept their uniqueness or use the many skills they’ve learned during their training. This is true even though nurses have different levels of education, skills, and roles.

Incorporating my program to deal with a basic disease prevention effort could bring attention to nurses’ clinical relevance and insight into a growing need to make the community aware of how important it is for students in our schools to take responsibility for washing their hands beyond the pandemic and as a way to stop the spread of disease. Encourage nurses to use the internet to spread their messages and push for laws that make it easier to publish nursing articles in health news stories. This will give nurses a chance to share with the public their unique perspectives on health, illness, and health care.

Attachment I

Dear Sir,

First of all, I’d like to thank you for the work you’ve done and the plans you’ve put in place to make healthcare better. But I’d like to bring up the idea of preventing infections by putting in place automatic monitoring systems for hand hygiene that can catch alcohol-based swabs in places where people learn.

Most students don’t take care to avoid getting sick at school, so they get sick from things that could have been easily avoided. As nurses, our main job is to keep people from getting sick. Installing automated hand hygiene monitoring systems would help a lot to keep kids safe from these kinds of illnesses. I think you are the best person to deal with this problem in a good way, along with other people who have a stake in it. With your help, policies or legislative efforts can be important to solve or lessen the problem we just talked about.

I’m looking forward to hearing from you, as well as having more conversations with you and getting your advice on how to move the problem forward.

Thanks.

Regards.

References

Edmisten, C., Hall, C., Kernizan, L., Korwek, K., Preston, A., Rhoades, E., … & Zygadlo, S. (2017). Implementing an electronic hand hygiene monitoring system: lessons learned from community hospitals. American journal of infection control, 45(8), 860-865.

Lawson, A., & Vaganay-Miller, M. (2019). The Effectiveness of a Poster Intervention on Hand Hygiene Practice and Compliance When Using Public Restrooms in a University Setting. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(24), 5036.

Mason, D. J., Nixon, L., Glickstein, B., Han, S., Westphaln, K., & Carter, L. (2018). The Woodhull study revisited: nurses’ representation in health news media 20 years later. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 50(6), 695-704.

Michael, H., Einloth, C., Fatica, C., Janszen, T., & Fraser, T. G. (2017). Durable improvement in hand hygiene compliance following implementation of an automated observation system with visual feedback. American Journal of Infection Control, 45(3), 311-313.

World Health Organization. (2019). Improving health and learning through better water, sanitation and hygiene in schools: an information package for school staff.

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