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How do you feel about the MDG initiatives? Discuss ways a community nurse can help with the goals.
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight goals of measurable targets with the primary objective
of improving the lives of the world's poorest people who are faced with extreme hunger. Central to the
goal is to ensure development is a right with particular emphasis on marginalized groups which
comprises mostly of women and children. In many regions of the world especially in impoverished
nations, women do not have basic education or any form of training which could have helped them
improve their economic status. Also, most youths are unemployed. According to a Department for
International Development (DFID) report, young people make up 25 per cent of the working population
worldwide but 47 per cent of the unemployed. In attaining the goals of reducing child mortality,
improving maternal health, and combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases, community nurses
play an integral part in order to make a world of difference in the lives of people and populations. This
they do by

Many resources are spent on recruiting foreign nurses. It is a fast-growing private sector
business. If the United States and other industrial nations put their resources into fixing
the problems that lead to this shortage of nurses, would the need to recruit foreign
nurses decrease? Why or why not?

How do you feel about the MDG initiatives? Discuss ways a community nurse can help with the
goals.

Expert Answer

As U.S. health care facilities struggle to fill current registered nurse staffing vacancies, a more
critical nurse undersupply is predicted over the next twenty years. In response, many institutions
are doubling their efforts to attract and retain nu... view the full answer