Nurses are playing many roles in the global society in an effort to mitigate and minimize health disparities including administrative roles, advocacy and even lobbying through their professional organizations. Most of these roles perceive the issue from the perspective of a larger picture including the expanded roles of nurses in the modern healthcare system. However, it is my informed opinion that the nursing profession has focused so much on the larger picture that the core obligation of caregiving has been pushed to the periphery. The role I would want to play in extenuating health disparities in the global world is to focus more on caregiving while giving prioritized care to the disadvantaged segments of the community while encouraging other nurses to do the same.
Administrative, advocacy, and lobbying roles are critical to the mitigation of health disparities in a global world but many other professionals can handle these obligations as competently as nurses. The other professionals include clinicians, specialists, politicians and allied interest groups. However, all these other groups are incapable of handling the core role of nursing which is caregiving. The nurse’s roles as a caregiver include being the friend of the patient, the champion of the patient, a nursing officer to the patient, and also a clinician to the patient (Kurpas et al., 2018). Combining all these roles can only be done by a nursing officer and no other professional in the world is either suited, trained, or capable of making the sacrifices it requires.
Delegate your assignment to our experts and they will do the rest.
As nurses continue to take up secondary roles in the healthcare system, it is important to remember that it is through their core calling, caregiving that they can make the greatest difference (Kurpas et al., 2018). As a caregiver, therefore, I would try to change the world, one patient at a time. To this end, I would identify the patients or sets of patients who are worst affected by health disparities then seek to meet their specific health needs. If every nurse around the world does the same, health disparities would be exponentially reduced.
References
Kurpas, D., Gwyther, H., Szwamel, K., Shaw, R. L., D’Avanzo, B., Holland, C. A., & Bujnowska-Fedak, M. M. (2018). Patient-centered access to health care: a framework analysis of the care interface for frail older adults. BMC Geriatrics , 18 (1), 273. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-018-0960-7
