Nursing

Common Risk Factors in Empowering People

Provided that the nurses are highly educated, qualified and trained, the common risk factors actually play an important for the nurses to empower the individuals in many ways. First of all, in order to deal with any particular disease that is commonly prevailing in any particular time period will always have some common risk factors of that disease. With the help of these risk factors, the nurses can identify the root causes and in addition the symptoms of that disease. The awareness therefore regarding any such disease is essential for controlling the prevalence of that disease (Lawton & Wimpenny, 2003). The common risk factors will actually facilitate and ease the awareness procedures. This is partially due to the fact that explaining the diseases and its root causes to the masses will be more convenient and effective thereby using the common risk factors.

The common risk factors will also make it easier for the nurses to make the victims of any prevailing diseases engage in various discussion sessions that are governed by the nurses and the medical care personnel. Therefore, this cross discussion will give the victims a chance to share their experiences regarding the disease. Such discussions assisted by the nurses will not just educate the individuals. In addition, the nurses can also use these common factors to educate the individuals to prevent from exercising the practices that could result in controlling the disease or reversing some of the symptoms (Lawton & Wimpenny, 2003). Moreover, the individuals will be more motivated to adapt all the healthy life style changes in order to prevent the disease from spreading. It is essential to note that educating even a few individuals regarding the risk factors will play an important role in further spreading the awareness through these individuals to many others. Therefore, through various means, these common risk factors will help the nurses to educate a wide audience thereby empowering them against the disease.

References

Lawton S. & Wimpenny P. (2003) Continuing professional development:a review. Nursing Standard 26(17), 24, 41-44.

Nurse-patient Relationship

A quality and sufficient treatment is essential in ensuring a speedy recovery of an individual. However, the nurse patient relationship will also play an essential part in ensuring that the patient is recovering well. The first most important aspect of the nurse-patient relationship is the attitude of the nurses towards the patient. A nurse in any community cannot develop a healthy relationship with her patients until and unless she communicates there problems well to the doctors in addition to making sure that she is gentle, tender and patient with the patients (Jordan, 2000).

All these three characteristics or attributes are essential if a healthy nurse patient relationship is to be developed for the sake of patient's health. A nurse who maintains an understanding behavior with her patients will establish and maintain relationship of trust and confidence with them. The trust building is therefore the most essential development in the nurse-patient relationship. If a patient trusts the nurse, then he ...