FNU Nursing Organizations Policimakers Discussion

Examine how might nurses and nursing organizations improve policies to encourage the judicious use of antibiotics in humans?

The healthcare system is made up of various stakeholders, including nurses and their nursing organizations, among others. When it comes to policy formation regarding the use of any medication, the nurses and their organizations have to be involved in this policymaking. They are always at the forefront of the making of such policies (Patton, Zalon, & Ludwick, 2018). Such involvement will give them an upper hand in the organizational operations. As such, if a policy is suggested to judiciously use antibiotics to humans, nurses have to be heavily involved. Also, one should note that nurses are always in constant contact with the patients to whom they regularly administer antibiotics. Such a move end up enhancing giving the right information on the use of antibiotics and the patients’ possible responses to the antibiotics. Such information will be very critical on the policy to encourage the judicious use of antibiotics on humans.

Identify the correlation between global disease surveillance and domestic disease surveillance and the significant role the family nurse practitioner plays.

Both the global surveillance and the domestic surveillance of diseases are closely related to some point. Usually, the global surveillance for diseases draws much of its data from national disease surveillance. However, it does this from a neutral point of view, something that nations might find it hard to and might be tempted to alter their national disease surveillance data. The two surveillances are close together, but in some cases might be different depending on several factors.

Family nurse practitioners are very important in ensuring that they provide care to the family member they are assigned to. On top of this, these practitioners are critical in acting as a link between patients and their families and ensuring that each family member understands the condition the family member is exposed to (Mueller, 2020).

References

Mueller, R. C. (2020). Exploring Family Nurse Practitioners’ Practices in Recommending mHealth Apps to Patients. CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing, 38(2), 71-79.

Patton, R. M., Zalon, M. L., & Ludwick, R. (Eds.). (2018). Nurses making policy: From bedside to boardroom. Springer Publishing Company.

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