United Nations members set the millennial development goals that are eight in number and targeting vulnerable individuals as well as issues affecting the environment worldwide. The goals aim to cover essential aspects of the society and the environment to make the world a better place to be. Most people are unaware of the goals as they address on poverty and hunger eradication, reducing early childhood mortality, promote women empowerment and gender equality, combating chronic conditions and deadly diseases together with ensuring conducive environment. In health care administration, the local government can be encouraged to engage community nurses in assisting how to achieve the goals.
Nurses are professionals who can practice their expertise by educating institution to formulate income generation projects that target in halving the proportion of people whose income is below one dollar per day (International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent societies, 200
...6). This can be achieved through vocational training, provision of micro-credit and should be controlled within disaster management program. Food security programs and agricultural training help the society to reduce the number of people in the community suffering from hunger. Community nurses should teach the society on the need for quality health care and important eating habits that ensure a healthy society. Institutions such as American Red cross, Environmental Protection Agency, hospitals together with other organizations can work in collaboration to determine the requirements of vulnerable populations helping nurses to offer assistance.
- (International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent societies, 2006).In support of the Millennium Development Goals: Activities of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent societies. Retrieved from http://www.ifrc.org/Global/Publications/Health/health-mdgs-en.pdf
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the Millennium Development Goals by the United Nation is an essential step in eliminating inequitable resources and access to food, quality healthcare, education as well as clean water (Wasinski, 2012). Those factors are termed as communal issues that influence everyone regardless of religion, age location and ethnicity. Comprehending and recognizing that the community is connected by such goals make it easier to implement them. Various factors like economic crisis and lack of enough attention have hindered the power to realize a community and social movement (Wasinski, 2012). Therefore, community nurses as leaders have to play the crucial role to remain informed, help others and guiding them.
The nurses are supposed to maintain standards and boundaries preserving global and local links. Community nurses can help by providing diverse opinions and views since they are inevitable and persistently encouraging honest and open communication. The society can easily communicate the grass root challenges that are targeted by the millennium development goals. In realization of the MDGs requires sustaining limitation between personal desires and community interest.
- (Marek Wasinski, 2012).Millennium Development Goals and Community Leadership - University-Community Partnerships for Social Action Research (UCP-SARnet). Ucpsarnet.iglooprojects.org.
Currently, in United States nursing has been the fastest growing career and the availability of registered nurses is not adequate to cover the demand. The has been contributed by some healthcare improvements like Obamacare that has increased the number of insured persons hence seeking medical attention, more nursing professionals are required. In order to encourage deployment and development of nursing professional with adequate skills for health care system, the policy makers, public and the professions should engage in long-term workforce strategies. Recruiting nurses from other countries
can only be a temporal solution to the challenge hence available resources should be fixed to major on native individuals. Education and conducive working environments are strategies that can help reduce the problem ("American Association of Colleges of Nursing | Strategies to Reverse the New Nursing Shortage", 2016).
Education help in Supporting health care employers to develop and sustain professional development programs as well as lifelong learning for continued competence. In terms of the work environment, it is important to redesign work to ensure aging workforce remains active in direct care roles. This can be done by implementing certain plans that enable retaining of experienced nurses in the industry to provide direct patient care. Such plans are achieved by having benefit programs and salary, provision of incentives and ensuring flexibility in working environment.
- American Association of Colleges of Nursing | Strategies to Reverse the New Nursing Shortage. (2016). Aacn.nche.edu. Retrieved from http://www.aacn.nche.edu/publications/position/tri-council-shortage
The United States together with other industrial nations should put their resources into resolving the challenge of nurse’s shortages hence decreasing substantially the need to recruit foreign ones. The challenge can be solved by developing public and private partnerships (Pate et al, 2007). Many areas, educators and providers have come together in numerous ways to address the issues of physician and nurse shortage.
This has been done through promotional campaigns, public and private funding, flexible study programs for advanced degrees as well as leadership intervention that lead to promoting the value of teaching and nursing. Better communication between key stakeholders (like schools, government entities and business community) and healthcare organizations is critical. The health sector should encourage technology-based training especially in innovations in the
educational environment for physicians and nurses. This is due to the rapid change in technology that renders most personnel less active in healthcare provision.
The industry can design flexible roles and performance-based metrics (Pate et al, 2007). The changing requirement of nursing needs that the staff to have roles that are suitable for them to offer adequate care to patients. Performance metrics can help to determine the quality of care offered by staff to ensure maintained standards hence having enough qualified personnel.
- (Cater Pate, David Chin,M.D, Sandy Lutz, Hindy Shaman, Benjamin Isgur,Paul BaranJessica Shure,Ginger Pilgrim,Shubha Muralidharand Kevin Henderson, 2007). Health Research Institution:PricewaterCoopers.Retrievedfromhttp://www.wiche.edu/info/agendaBook/nov07/presentations/Carparelli.pdf
