Role of Public Health Nurses in Preventing and Managing Communicable Diseases
Infectious disease is one of the kinds that spread from one individual to another through various forms. The may include contact with body fluids or blood. Coronavirus enveloped into positive-strand RNA viruses (Paules et al. 2020), which can divide into four generations; alpha, beta, delta, and gamma. Among the four, the one responsible for infecting humans is alpha and beta.
Transmission
Coronavirus can be transmitted in the following ways
- a) Person-to-person spread
The virus can quickly spread from one person to the other. That is people who are in a closer range of approximately six feet. When an infected person sneezes or coughs, the droplets can easily be move in the air to the nearby person. When it comes into contact with either the mouth or the nose, it can quickly transfer to the lungs.
- b) Spread through contact with infected surfaces or objects
A person can get coronavirus through touching either the objects or the surfaces that have the virus on it. The infections tend to remain on the hand, and later on, when they feel either the mouth or the nose, the spread is inevitable.
Prevention Measures
The nurses have not yet come up with the vaccine that can prevent the coronavirus. They suggest the best way to avoid it is to avoid at all costs of exposure to the disease. Some of the methods may include;
- Avoiding close contact with the people who already infected with the virus
- Regular cleaning and disinfecting, especially the regularly touched surfaces and objects, by using cleaning detergents.
- Washing the hands regularly with clean water and soap, especially before eating, after visiting the toilets, blowing the nose, sneezing, or coughing.
Conclusion
Coronavirus is a deadly and hazardous virus infection. The number of deaths is quickly rising (Huang et al., 2020). Hence there is a need for more specialists who should work more swiftly to prevent more loss of lives.