Propose two realistic and achievable initiatives within the scope of nursing science that could help to mitigate this crisis. Provide examples and relevant literature to support your response.

Propose two realistic and achievable initiatives within the scope of nursing science that could help to mitigate this crisis. Provide examples and relevant literature to support your response.

Two initiatives within the scope of nursing can help to mitigate the risk of addictive behavior. First, creating awareness of addictive behavior as a concern through identifying the problem, and exploring responses and resources to help address the problem. Creating awareness helps to motivate communities to come together for action. In addition, it can help in reaching high-risk groups like adolescent populations. Creating awareness helps in educating the audience about the topic that could be new to them and encouraging them to bring change. For instance, discussion forums can be held and adolescent populations engaged to improve their awareness of how gaming would affect them negatively thus motivating them to avoid addictive behaviors (Ervin & Kulbok, 2018). Second, involvement in policy development and advocating for changes in response. This can galvanize action away from only treatment and rehabilitation of addicts to prevention, thus shifting from expensive action (treatment) to cheaper action that can reach more people (prevention) (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2020).

References

Ervin, N. E., & Kulbok, P. A. (2018). Advanced Public and Community Health Nursing Practice: Population Assessment, Program Planning, and Evaluation (2nd ed.). Springer Publishing Company.

Stanhope, M., & Lancaster, J. (2020). Public Health Nursing: Population-Centered Health Care in the Community. Elsevier, Inc.

World Health Organization (2023). Addictive Behavior. https://www.who.int/health-topics/addictive-behaviour#tab=tab_1