Disease Prevention and Management

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Disease Prevention and Management
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Introduction.
Learning about infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases and public health
responses to emergencies and injuries is of great importance during practicing of nursing as it
helps in understanding of various problems while dealing with patients. Patients suffering from
infectious and non-communicable diseases require special care that needs proper knowledge on
how to deal with the them by leaning what they require during their period of pain and on how to
advise them on ways to avoid such problems. Injuries and emergencies also require a proper
response to the patients suffering affected to ensure most their lives are saved and the rate of
fatalities are reduced.
Infectious diseases.
Having the knowledge of infectious diseases learnt in class has improved the practice
while dealing with patients suffering from the diseases. The principles and practice of infectious
diseases (Bennett, Dolin, Blaser; 2014) helps in understanding how to deal with the existing
infectious diseases and also the newly emerging infectious diseases. Proper hygiene and safe
injection practices taught is very important and useful when dealing with the infectious diseases
either by treating patients who are already affected or by preventing spreading of the diseases to
other patients.
Dealing with infectious diseases requires at least a general understanding on how the
diseases affects the patients and how the prevention of the spread of the disease. Dealing with
patients suffering from infectious diseases such as cholera caused by poor hygiene requires
applying hygiene learnt in class to help the patients and also advise them how to prevent