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By- Clem
APRNs has always been involved with the health of the community viz-a-viz their role as both an advocate and an activist. Advocate in the sense that they fight for the best outcome for their patients – whatever it needs even beyond their scope of practice, they will seek consult with the specialist. Activism in the sense that they fight for change in the social, economic, environmental and cultural policies and practices (Mason, et al, 2021). APRNs can be engaged with globalization and international health in these forms; thinking globally and acting locally, sensitivity to culture, learning about global health agenda, getting involved with both regional and international organizations such as World Health Organization and the Red cross and Doctors without borders, also getting involved with global health issues, sharing ideas and achievements through discussions, publications, conferences, and the social media and internet (Salvage, et al, 2020).
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are 8 goals that the United Nations member states agreed and signed on in September of 2000; the purpose was committing world leaders to combat poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and discrimination against women (WHO, 2020). How can APRNs and RNs help see these goals through ? How can we help achieve these goals ? The goals has a lot to do with our scope of practice, basically putting the community in our purview. We are more or less the first responders when our community need help, poverty or illness or discrimination, they end up on out front porch – hospitals or healthcare facilities. It is our duty to take care of them. We need to sharpen our observation skills and detect when our community is going through the 8 objective goals of the UN. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), has 17 goals are are health related. These are goals that are to be achieved by year 2030 – ensuring health and promoting wellbeing is the target and who else can do this but members of the healthcare community. We are trained for this and that is why we should be at the forefront of achieving this goals and the only way we can do this is educating our community, being involved in health activism and advocacy and not shying away from politics.