More than 11 percent of Mexicans living outside Mexico. This has made the country have the highest number of emigrants in the world. Moreover, the highest number of these emigrants, live in the United States. That is why between 50% and 90% of U.S. emigrants have a Hispanic origin (Bean, 1997).
It is significant to note that 90% of the Hispanics in Durham, for example, were low-skilled residents. Durham city had a lot of employment opportunities because of the large number of hospitals, universities, and companies like GlaxoSmithKline Kline (Bean, 1997). As a result of racial inequality, the natives were employed at the top, managerial positions while the Hispanics were employed as low-wage casual workers. This made their lives miserable in a foreign land. Moreover, the already overpopulated Hispanics lived in slums under unhygienic conditions such as poor drainage, poor sanitation, and poor ventilated houses (Bean, 1997). This led to regular outbreaks of water-borne diseases like diarrhea in the slums. There was also a frequent outbreak of tuberculosis that would claim the lives of most Hispanics whenever it happened. Consequently, there was a migration stream in which the majority of men emigrated. Men were highly demanded construction work. This led to an unequal sex ratio among Hispanics. For instance, Bean (1997) analyze that more than two men shared one woman. This led to increased HIV/AIDs infections. Sometimes, men opted to go for sex workers and made the situation worse. Apart from HIV/AIDs, other STDs like gonorrhea and syphilis were common among the Hispanic population.
Barriers: What are potential barriers that may arise during teaching and how will those be handled?
Language barrier
Language barrier occurs when the person sending a message and the person receiving it cannot communicate because of language differences. When handling the topic of ‘unsanitary living conditions’ language barriers can arise. This is likely to occur if the teacher and the student do not have a common language instruction (Lundy & Janes, 2009). If this occurs, it will be important for the teacher to hire a translator to act as a bridge between the teacher and the learners. This way, the message will be delivered.
Disability
Disability is not limited to blindness and deafness. If the educator has a blind or deaf learner, it will be difficult to deliver the message (Lundy & Janes, 2009). For instance, if the educator is demonstrating how a fire extinguisher is used to put off the fire, a blind learner will miss the demonstration part. This situation can be handled by referring the disabled student to special tutors trained to deliver special lessons in a way they can understand (Lundy & Janes, 2009). For instance, a blind person can be taught using braille while deaf can be taught using sign language. Other potential barriers include cultural barriers, inflexible curriculum, and lack of supportive learning materials.
Nursing Diagnosis: unsanitary living conditions
Nursing diagnosis is a clinical judgment on an individual or group of individuals regarding their response to the actual health problem at hand. The diagnosis gives a basis for selecting the best nursing intervention for effective treatment results (Brokel & Heath, 2009).
As for the case of unsanitary living conditions, there are various nursing diagnoses. For instance, if a patient has diarrhea, the nurse is likely to judge the patient to have drunk unclean water or contaminated food. If a patient has a skin disease like scabies, the nurse could quickly judge that the patient is not observing proper personal hygiene.
References
Bean, F. D. (1997). At the Crossroads: Mexico and U.S. Immigration Policy. New York: Lanham, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Brokel, J., & Heath C. (2009). The value of nursing diagnoses in electronic health records. Wiley-Blackwell: Singapore
Lundy, K. S., & Janes, S. (2009). Community health nursing: Caring for the public’s health (2nd ed). Sundbury, MA: Jones and Barlett.