ESSAY NRSG 371 Building Healthy Communities

NRSG 371 Building Healthy Communities

Answer:

Part A: Impact of STDs on Remote and Rural Australians

STD’s in Australia has got increased from 9 percent to 16 percent in the last 10 years.

Amongst 89 percent of the total number of STD affected Australian is between the ages of 15 to 3 years.

Chlamydia, gonorrhea and Syphilis are considered to be the most common STD in Australia.

Over 23,000 Australians are living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)

While STDs is prevalent in both Urban and rural Australian, the percentage of STDs is higher in rural and remote Australians.

Lack of education, awareness about the impact of the disease and high risk sexual behavior can be considered to be the key reason behind higher prevalence of STDs amongst rural and Remote Australians.

STDs are found to be responsible for life threating complications.

Some of the major impact of STDs incudes Cancers, infertility, neurological damage and death.

It causes long term health issues, specifically, in Women and infants.

Major health complication includes tubal or ectopic pregnancy, pelvic inflammatory disease and perinatal or congenital infections in infants who are born to infected mothers

STDs also enhances the risk of getting as well as transmitting HIV and can transfer the way the disease progress.

Rural women and Adolescents are found to be 1.3 times higher sufferer of STDs compared to men in Australia.

The morality rate due to STDs is higher amongst rural and Remote Australian compared to Australian who lives in urban areas

Lack of access to health care services and high rate of poverty can be considered to the key reason behind this.

Part B: Increasing the Access of Remote and Rural Population to Healthcare and Preventive Measures through Healthcare Programs

It has been found the one of the key reason behind increased rate of mortality amongst Remote and rural people due to STDs includes lack of access towards health care services.

Lack of infrastructure and development in rural areas in Australia has impaired rural health (www.aihw.gov.au. 2022).

Given the fact that healthcare homes are located far away from their residence, it becomes difficult for remote and rural Australians to opt for healthcare services.

Hence this can be considered to be a major area that required to be change.

The primary role of nurses in this case is to organize healthcare programs that can enhances the access of the community.

As per Einsiedel et al. (2021) healthcare campaign are organized by nurses in cooperation with management of healthcare homes, where health education and treatments are provided to the community members in order to prevent, manage or eradicate a particular healthcare issues.

Another major role of the nurses is to enhance the awareness of the healthcare service providers about the impact of the disease

A crucial role of the nurses includes working for enhancing the accessibility to care for the remote and rural communities so that they can get emergency care for their health issues related to STDs (Makate et al., 2021).

Nurses are also stipulated to avoid any kind of discriminatory behavior while providing care for the patient.

Specific	Measurable	Attainable	Realistic	Time bound
To increase the awareness about STDs amongst Australians	By at least 25 percent, that will be measured by comparing healthcare reports generated on a quarterly basis	Through online and offline awareness campaigns	For improving awareness regarding STD amongst the selected population	Within the next 12 months.
To increase access to healthcare for treating STD related issues	By at least 30 percent , that will be measured by comparing healthcare reports generated on a quarterly basis	Through organizing health programs and taking remote healthcare management initiatives	For reducing the mortality rate of the rural and remote Australians due to STDs by attest 20 percent	Within the next 12 months.

Objective to be focused on	Relevant strategies
Objective 1:	1.Given the fact that young Australians are the major victims of STDs, healthcare campaigns should be organized at local schools and colleges. 2.A health care program will be organized that will last between 14 to 20 days. 3.For increasing awareness of the targeted population, audio visual information should be shared by nurses, physicians as well as STD specialist. 4.Effective strategies to prevent STDs should be promoted.
Objective 2	1.The fist an foremost strategy that needs to be implemented, is to enhance the awareness of the rural and remote community members of Australia about the impact of STDs, through audio visual demonstration 2.Awareness about how to prevent STDs should be provided by physicians and nurses. 3.Counselling of the community members needs to be done in order to reduce STD related stigma and helping them to open up. 4.Free health checkups should be organized to detect STD related issues amongst the community members. 5.In order to enhance the access of the community members to health care services related to STDs, the community member will be educated to use remote access equipment. For example, mobile application, through which community members can contact healthcare organizations as well as opt for remote treatment by uploading their details. 6.Free medications and protections should be provided to the community members in order to to diminish the mortality rate and reduce further cases of STD

Resources

As per www.abc.net.au. (2022), a wide range of resources are required to organize a health care campaign and health care program.

When it comes to resources that are already available, it can be pointed out that local schools and collages can be used as the platform where the healthcare campaign and healthcare programs can be held.

Additionally, local educators can be a major part of the human resources required for the campaign (Spaeth, Matthews & Shephard, 2021).

Along with this local social workers can be considered as a major work force resource for the campaign.

When it comes to resources that requires externally, it includes, physicians, psychologists as well as nurses from healthcare homes located at urban areas.

As physical resources, the key resources that will be required for the health program includes projector, laptop, projection screen, medicines and equipment required for assessing the condition of the patients and treating patient.

Along with this, financial resources will be required. Funding from the end of local and federal government will be required. Along with this, financial support from the NGOs will be highly beneficial.

Evaluation

As per Ubrihien et al. (2022), it is highly crucial for healthcare service providers to evaluate the effectiveness of a healthcare plan.

Effective evaluation helps in monitoring the degree of success of the plan and whether the implemented plans were effective for the targeted population or not.

In this case, the success rate of the healthcare program will be analyzed through a 3 tire monitoring session.

Every 3 months, healthcare professionals will conduct monitoring the rate of STD affected community members.

The tool that will be used for monitoring purpose is offline survey.

Door to door survey will be conducted to identify the degree which community members are getting affected from the dieses

A detailed report will be produced every 3 months.

After 12 months, the rate reported every 3 month will be graphed in order to develop an understanding of trend.

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