Environmental Factors In Haiti Impact On Global Nursing

Wide reaching, nurses significantly outnumbered physicians as providers of health care often having utmost vast reach remoteness to underserved communities. Having personally lived in one of the underserved communities in my hometown Western Africa before moving to the United States of America and my life calling to be a nurse from a young age with the deep desire to make a difference. I plan to contribute and continue to contribute immensely to the underserved communities by delivering quality health care to remote regions around the world. I do volunteer service at several clinics in the Atlanta area with many well-known Emory physicians that care for homeless and underserved populations, these volunteer experiences provide me with opportunities and fulfillment to develop added headship skill and experience to meet my daily patients, needs.

Out of all nations that publish water sanitation statistics, Haiti is the only country in which there are more individuals today without clean water than there were over twenty years ago (Gelting, Bliss, Patrick, Lockhart, & Handzel, 2013, p. 665). This is largely due to the water crisis occurring in Haiti over the last century. Haiti’s struggles can be derived from the nation’s inability to withstand and recover from natural disasters, economic instability, societal wealth discrepancy, and a cholera outbreak. These differing facets can all be analyzed through the natural, social, and political perspectives in order to demonstrate the severity of the Haitian water crisis, the failure of current attempts at resolution, and the need for further

Compounding this lack of care, Haitians also lack clean drinking water and proper sanitation systems. Less than half the population has access to clean drinking water, a rate that is only surpassed by civil war-torn African nations. Even worse, half the population of Haiti can be categorized as “food insecure,” and this malnutrition has created a generation where half of all Haitian children are undersized (IFRC, 2010). In addition, this poor sanitation and hygiene, coupled with inadequate nutrition, have contributed to exceptionally high levels of individuals with chronic, yet often at best ill-treated, conditions.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) strives to address the imperative health care controversies in the United States of America. The foundation endeavors to make coalitions with interested parties of leading health organizations to attain measurable, viable, and appropriate transformations in the health sector. The authorities led to the establishment of the 911 emergency calls, which enhance the care of livelihoods (Malone, 2013).Besides, for over 40 decades, the foundation is conveying commitment, experience, and a stringent balanced approach to the conditions, which compromise the health of the nationals (Malone, 2013).The Institute of Medicine (IOM) is congregating a cabinet of experts to analyze the necessity of incorporating nurses, expanding the nursing care solutions, and promoting dependency, which emerge as crucial solutions to different health challenges.

The country I have choose to utilize in the global case study is Haiti. The crisis is hurricane Matthew. As the lead nurse in a shelter working in this country and people are pouring into the shelter it is crucial to provide effective care and achieve desired patient outcomes. It is important to assess and triage the population properly, manage and prevent the spread of infection, and delegate tasks accordingly.

According to the Health Development Index, Haiti has the “poorest standards of living” (“Haiti”). Most live in huts and shelters. Many build on trash heaps, and their living environments are often highly unsanitary. Many family members live under the same roof in cramped quarters. They have “the worst health statistics in the

There were many factors that contributed to Haiti becoming one of the poorest nations in the Western Hemisphere. Agriculture, corruption, and inequality were the main reasons for the downfall of Haiti’s economy. Another major attribute would be Papa Doc and Baby Doc’s involvement in Haiti. There was a lot of corruption that happened during this til and the Haitian people took all of the fall, devastated by the consequences that followed Baby Doc as he and his wife fled. The people had to rebuild themselves from nothing and they still have not recovered from this.

The country that I chose to research for my paper is Haiti. Haiti is located in Cuba and Puerto Rico. Haiti shares the Island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic. The capital of Haiti is Port-au-Prince, and the population is 9,996,731. Haiti has two official languages French and Haitian Creole. About 2.1 million people of the population live in Port-Au-Prince, which makes the capital an extremely congested city.

According to the article Haitian Health Care: A Follow-up (2011) it noted that, in January 2010, 46% of Haitians did not have access to health care, because they could not afford it or because there was no health center near them” (Haitian Health Care: A Follow-up 2011, np.) I personally believe that regardless of ones’ economic or social status; people should have access to sufficient healthcare. When a person can go to the hospital or any other facility where they can receive medical treatment, the only humane thing to do is to help that person. Dr. Paul Farmer, also believes that healthcare should be accessible to people from all walks of life; especially in those areas where medical care and treatment is scarce.

In the summer of 2014, as a part of the Global Medical Brigades, I visited and stayed at a small village in Nicaragua for 11 days. While visiting Nicaragua, I was really astonished by the lack of health care as well as, the lack of any health system in particular. Families did not have access to any type of medicine, unless they lived in the village and had money to spend. However, this was not the case for many of the families in the village so several of them suffered and fell ill to diseases and infections. Also, the water was not very clean and access to clean water, once again, could only be found in cities. About 50% of the population lives in poverty in which 85% of this population struggle to live on more than one-dollar daily (Balint 1999). Several communities are limited in their access to basic health services because of poor road infrastructure, which makes transportation and trade tremendously difficult. Historically, each step forward that Nicaragua has taken in the realm of development has been counteracted with a step back in the form of a revolution, natural disasters, repealing of funding for governmental projects or foreign aid. The focus of my research is observing and recording the factors that contribute to the high mortality rate of the Nicaragua populations and how these challenges can be combatted and resolved. My paper will discuss the inaccessibility of health care and why it is difficult to reach among populations that live in poverty and rural

Shortly before my recent mission trip to Haiti, I decided to take the chance and sign up for a mission trip for Ecuador in June 2016. As I was trying to convince my parents to sign off on the trip, their one concern was the funds that I would need. I continuously told them that if it is God's will, He will provide. Now, a short three months after they agreed to let me go, I am happy to say that I have more than half of the funds needed to go. With that being said, I am still short on money for the actual trip which includes a place to stay, my plane ticket, meals, some construction tools and other expenses while on the trip. Although this stuff is mostly paid for at this point, their are other expenses that I need covered. With this being said,

My thoughts and aspirations towards my future not only involve my success, but the success of the world around me as result of my education. I strive to become a person who utilizes his knowledge to help others succeed. After recently completing my first mission trip to Haiti this past summer I realized that this is what I aspire to do with my life. I went to a place of poverty and sickness, and envisioned solutions that would solve some of the issues that are plaguing Haiti. This defining moment happened while I was sitting in a temporary shelter, I realized how desperate the living conditions were for these people, and at that moment I was moved to help, but how? I was a seventeen year old boy with minimal experience and lack of funding

Haiti is a country with a unique past, from it’s overwhelming richness in sugar cane to the slave revolution, Haiti has had a history that most countries could have never imagined. Author Dr. Paul Farmer, of Harvard University, wrote The Uses of Haiti in 1994 with two different updated editions the latest being published in 2005. Dr. Farmer’s book details the history of Haiti and how the world has affected the country. The Uses of Haiti has a few weaknesses when it comes to the writing style of Dr. Farmer, but there are many strengths within this book as well. The weaknesses range from too many voices within the text to ideas being repeated multiple times throughout a single section. The strengths of Dr. Farmer’s book range from the magnificent

Over this past summer, I went on a mission trip to Haiti that affected me more than I ever could have thought. Yes it was filled with a lot of hard work, but I would rather go back than relive any of my past vacations. My team and I had to pour concrete and tile two complete rooms as well as carry over eight hundred concrete blocks upstairs and onto the roof. All of this work was spread out over the course of four days; it wasn’t bad at all. The majority of the work that was being done wasn’t physical labor, but mental instead.

This approach allows the researcher to carry out the research for both practical and theoretical reasons (Maylor and Blackmon, 2005). The main focus on these case studies will be investigating how Maldives, Taiwan and Phuket rebuilt their tourism sector by using destination branding concepts and trying to generalize if the same concepts could be recommended for Haiti. “This approach will allow the researcher to eliminate external sources of variation and look systematically for patterns of action” (ibid: 246). According to Blaikie (2000), this approach is also the most suitable due to the short time and limited budget of the researcher (cited in, ibid 243).