Explain the role of international and altruistic organizations in providing health care services during a global event.

OVERVIEW

Write a 5–6 page, APA-formatted report that explains the responses to a global event, how issues of race, class, and gender may have affected the response, and the role of international and altruistic organizations in providing health care services related to the event. Describe barriers to receiving health care services related to the event, and explain the role of the professional nurse in providing health care services related to the global event.

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

• Competency 1: Explain the factors that affect the health of communities.
  • Explain the response to a global event at the local and national levels.
  • Explain how social attitudes and issues of race, class, and/or gender may impact the response to a global event.
  • Explain the role of international and altruistic organizations in providing health care services during a global event.
• Competency 2: Apply evidence-based interventions to promote health and disease prevention and respond to community health issues.
  • Explain the role of the professional nurse in providing health care services related to global events.
• Competency 3: Develop an evidence-based nursing response for providing health care services related to community crises.
  • Describe barriers to health care services during a global event.
• Competency 4: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for a nursing professional.
  • Write content clearly and logically with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.
  • Correctly format paper, citations, and references, using current APA style.

  CONTEXT

  According to the World Health Organization (WHO), natural disasters kill approximately 90,000 people and impact another 160 million people every year (2015). Natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, and wildfires not only have an immediate impact on those who live in and around the affected area, they also often have a longer-term effect on the health and well-being of those impacted. Developing countries are frequently unable to respond to natural disasters effectively and efficiently because they lack resources, infrastructure, and disaster-preparedness systems.Poor health care systems in developing countries also make these countries more vulnerable to epidemics such as the recent outbreak of Ebola in Chad, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. According to a report from Save the Children (2015), some developing countries have less than one health care worker for every 2,000 people. Other diseases such as malaria and pneumonia account for as many as 17,000 child deaths every day (Save the Children, 2015).

  Nurses can provide critical skills during times of global events. Whether by volunteering directly at the site of the event or by recruiting, screening, and training other professional nurses behind the scenes, nurses are crucial to global relief efforts
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