Incorporating the global lens into practice allows nurse leaders to consider improvements or interventions from a larger perspective in the context of a wider global community rather than just the local level. Therefore, incorporating the global perspective might affect how nurses implement interventions. For example, vaccination drives, depending on emerging global trends towards a given infection such as COVID-19. Incorporating global perspectives also provides an opportunity for nurse leaders to consider collaborative interventions with peers from other countries with an effort towards making a larger impact, in research, policy formulation, and implementation of targeted interventions.
How Incorporation Impacts Social Change
The incorporation of global perspectives considers aspects like health equity, emerging technology, and dealing with emerging health issues such as control of epidemics. By looking at things from a global perspective, we consider the healthcare system from a larger perspective, meaning that the interventions created will be structured towards more significant social changes (Kilpatrick et al., 2023). A global perspective also highlights issues that the local system may not capture well, for example, existing systemic disparities, which collaborative policies may help to address.
Conclusion
Advancing health for all is among the challenges listed by the World Health Organization, which almost all healthcare systems are trying to address. This paper highlights how this issue is tackled using policies by the US government and the Australian government, making comparisons on the differences between the two policy perspectives. The paper also elaborates on how looking at health issues from a global perspective affects the role of a nurse leader and impact on social change.
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