For Americans to enjoy optimal health, as individuals and as a population, they must have the benefit of high-quality health care services that are effectively coordinated within a strong public health system. Nursing is the largest medical profession in the world with nearly 4 million nurses in the United States alone. As such, nurses have the potential to profoundly influence policy and politics on a global scale. In fact, it is the moral and professional obligation of nurses to be engaged in legislation that impacts their patients. Unfortunately, nurses have historically had little involvement in policy that affects healthcare delivery. Reasons being lack of awareness and inadequate skills just to mention a few. Regardless, the fact remains that nurses are vital to the development and implementation of healthcare policy.
strongly believe that the best possible strategy for containing the Coronavirus is stopping travel and asking people to self-isolate, as it is the only drastic measures that can be taken that result in reduced infection rates.
Recommendations on How the Coronavirus Could Be Contained If Australia Was to Experience an Outbreak:
As Australia is an island, we need to remember that we can take measures to ensure no new sources of the virus are going to come into Australia. As such, if we properly contain all the current known cases, and also enforce strategies at the border, and then we are sure to see a dramatic decline in new cases. Therefore, there are 2 main strategies that should be implemented if Australia was to experience an outbreak; Government enforced isolation of infected people, and screenings for incoming tourists coming off planes/cruise ships.
First of all, in preparation for if an outbreak was ever going to happen in Australia, the Government, the World Health Organisation, and the UN all need to provide funding to build new buildings for the purpose of quarantine. The ideal location for these centres would be somewhere in remote Australia, therefore no-one can possibly incidentally catch it. This would result in much quicker isolation in case of an emergency.
Second, the government should be looking to screen every person coming off a plane/boat looking to come into Australia. As Australia is an island, you are unable to come here just by walking across a border. Therefore, if the Government was to screen everyone coming into Australia for new cases of the virus, there could not possibly be any more cases than we already know about.
Some little things that the Government should be doing that do not require much effort or money are;
• Ensuring more people are educated – Less fake news
