Role of Information & Communication Technology in Prevention of Diseases
- The length of the reflection is to be within three to six pages excluding title page and reference pages.
- Assess health/illness beliefs, values, attitudes, and practices of individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations.
- Use behavioral change techniques to promote health and manage illness.
- Use evidence based practices to guide health teaching, health counseling, screening, outreach, disease and outbreak investigation, referral, and follow-up throughout the lifespan.
- Use information and communication technologies in preventive care.
- Collaborate with other healthcare professionals and patients to provide spiritually and culturally appropriate health promotion and disease and injury prevention interventions.
- Assess the health, healthcare, and emergency preparedness needs of a defined population.
- Use clinical judgment and decision-making skills in appropriate, timely nursing care during disaster, mass casualty, and other emergency situations.
- Collaborate with others to develop an intervention plan that takes into account determinants of health, available resources, and the range of activities that contribute to health and the prevention of illness, injury, disability, and premature death.
- Participate in clinical prevention and population focused interventions with attention to effectiveness, efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and equity.
- Advocate for social justice, including a commitment to the health of vulnerable populations and the elimination of health disparities.
- Use evaluation results to influence the delivery of care, deployment of resources, and to provide input into the development of policies to promote health and prevent disease.” (pp. 24-25).
- Assess protective and predictive factors, including genetics, which influence the health of individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations.
- Conduct a health history, including environmental exposure and a family history that recognizes genetic risks, to identify current and future health problems.
