Watch the "Diary of Medical Mission Trip" videos dealing with the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti in 2010. Reflect on this natural disaster by answering the following questions:

1. Propose one example of a nursing intervention related to the disaster from each of the following levels: primary prevention, secondary prevention, and tertiary prevention. Provide innovative examples that have not been discussed by previous students.
2. Under which phase of the disaster do the three proposed interventions fall? Explain why you chose that phase.
3. With what people or agencies would you work in facilitating the proposed interventions and why?

Answer:

DAIRY OF MEDICAL MISSION TRIP:

The diary of medical mission trip video watch , the dealing with the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti in 2010.

THE NURSING RELATED TO THE DISASTER:

The nursing is related to the disaster from the following three levels.

They are;

1.Primary prevention

2.Secondary prevention

3.Tertiary prevention

The Code of Ethics for Nurses to guide nursing practice:

The catastrophic earthquakes after that the  people often may suffer from severe air borne and water borne communicable diseases.

These disease may prevail with in the communities due to bacterial and viral infections. Thereby it is crucial for the registred nurses to take preventive measures to avoid communicable diseases spreading through out the area where earth quake damaged.

Primary prevention:

It includes the preventive measures necessary to avoid the occurrence of disease, while maintaining healthy life.

Eg: Vaccination against cholera is a primary prevention technique.

Secondary prevention:

It includes the activities of early diagnosis and providing optimum treatment, while preventing or limiting the secondary consequences of the disease.

Tertiary prevention :

It is the last level of health promotion, which includes long term medication to rehabilitate the body, efficient treatment approaches and patient education. This is more applicable to diseases that cannot be reversed (Eg: diabetes and hypertension). The main focus of tertiary prevention is to limit the detrimental consequences of the disease, while trying to maintain the normal health.

The prevention are regular physical exercise (primary prevention), regular health checkup (primary prevention), early diagnosis (secondary prevention), patient education (secondary prevention), prompt treatment with anti-hyperglycemic medications (tertiary prevention) would be useful in this patient’s management.

Diabetes cannot be cured, the patients have to take medication throughout the life, but the dose of medication can be controlled by physical exercises and meditation.

Diet must be very selective and should take foods rich in nutrients and less in calories. As it is an irreversible disease condition (and disease is already diagnosed), tertiary preventive measures are more appropriate for the patient.