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FINAL ASSIGNMENT
ACADEMIC ESSAYS ON NURSING TOPICS
Submitted for the Fulfillment of Final Assignment of English for Nursing III
Lecturer: Asih Nurakhir
EXPOSITORY: THE ROLE OF NURSING STUDENTS TO ACHIEVE THE
GOALS OF MDGS
By
Dewi Widyaningsih
G2B009008
SCHOOL OF NURSING
FACULTY OF MEDICINE, DIPONEGORO UNIVERSITY
MAY, 2013
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Expository essay:
THE ROLE OF NURSING STUDENTS TO ACHIEVE THE GOALS OF MDGS
Dewi Widyaningsih, Student of Nursing School Diponegoro University
Background
Millennium Development Goals is a milestone done by Nation in the whole world to
sustain world development. MDGs bring 8 specific goals and expected to be achieved in
2015. The Goals represent human needs and basic rights (United Nation, 2010). Some of
MDGs concern on health aspects. Nursing student have important roles in achieving
MDGs target at 2015 especially in the fourth, fifth and sixth goals of MDGs which
concern on health aspect which is reduce children mortality, increase maternal health, and
combat HIV/AIDS and other diseases (GNA, 2013). This essay aims to explain the role of
nursing students to achieve MDGs.
Nursing student role to meet MDG 4
The MDG 4 is to reduce children mortality. Data showed 6.9 million children under five
years died in 2011. Almost 75% of all child deaths death from six conditions: neonatal
causes, pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria, measles, and HIV/AIDS. WHO already promote
some strategies to reduce children mortality. Nursing students could take apart in
implementing those strategies, they might join with the community health workers to give
home care towards newborns with complication or manage the childhood illness for
children less than five years. The students might also held a socialization or health
education about breast feeding and immunization to help expand the immunization
program; and young children and infants feeding (WHO, 2013).
Nursing student role to meet MDG 5
The MDG 5 is to improve maternal health. Globally for about 287 000 women died during
pregnancy and childbirth in 2010, a decrease of 47% from levels in 1990. Most of them
died because they had no access to routine examination and emergency care. Nursing
students have role on the effort to meet with MDG 5. Students could taking apart in the
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WHO strategy which is coordinating research, with wide-scale application, that focuses on
improving maternal health in pregnancy and during and after childbirth. Students in high
level education have a duty to conduct research, by held the research concerning on
improvement of the mental health, students have already give the contribution in effort of
improving maternal health. The result of the research might used to be direction in
improving maternal health ( WHO, 2012)
Nursing student role to meet MDG 6
On efforts to meet with the MDG 5; Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases,
nursing student can participate to help promote the WHO strategies to achieve MDG 5.
Nursing students might hold campaign focusing on reducing the HIV/AIDS sufferer. Thestudents could do the health education and health promotion on how to avoid HIV/AIDS
transmission. In the other hand the student should also held socialization towards the
citizen to not avoid the HIV/AIDS sufferer, to create equalities emphasizing on human
rights issues. A continuous program campaigning about transmission of HIV/AIDS might
help to reduce the newly diagnosed HIV/AIDS (WHO, 2011)
Conclusion
Nursing student as agent of change has several roles on effort to meet with MDG goal. The
students could implement their role on giving health education (educator), conduct a
research (researcher), and provide care to the children and maternal health (care giver).
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