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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).


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)


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).

References

GNA. 10 May 2013. Role of nurses in meeting MDGs is very crucial- Director. Retrieved

May 17, 2013 from http://www.modernghana.com/news/463125/1/role-of-nurses-in-

meeting-mdgs-is-very-crucial-dir.html

MDG 4: reduce child mortality. Reviewed April 2013. Retrieved May 17, 2013 fromhttp://www.who.int/topics/millennium_development_goals/child_mortality/en/

MDG 5. 2012. Improve maternal health. Retrieved May 17, 2013 from

http://www.who.int/topics/millennium_development_goals/maternal_health/en/
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