The medical team that will be going to India is comprised of nurses, physicians,interpreters, social workers, safety engineers, and laboratory technichians. As the head nurse of this team, it is your responsibility to make sure that all members of the team have been vaccinated against polio. The villagers who are afflicted with polio will exhibit a variety of signs and symptoms, and it will be important for the health care team to assess and determine methods of treatment. Other nurses in your team will be assigned duties as you work to care for the villagers. All team members must be thorough and safety conscious. By the time you complete this web quest you will have learned to: 1)Delegate responsibilities to other members of the health care team, 2)Oversee the activites of each team to ensure that they are communicating well with each other and utilizing resources interchangeably, 3)Communicate well with health care team members and villagers, 4)Describe the signs, symptoms and treatment of the various forms of poliomyelitis, 5)Analyze the factors contributing to the resurgence of polio, 6)Formulate a treatment plan for those villagers affected by poliomyelitis, 7)Tabulate a list of those villagers requiring the polio vaccine, 8)Administer the polio vaccine, 9)Understand and discuss health care issues with the villagers through the aid of an interpreter, 10)Understand the culture of India and interact with the villagers based on their culture.
