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WHO IS HEALTH WORKER

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By healthupates

 A village health worker is a person who helps lead family and neighbors toward better health. Often he or she has been selected by the other villagers as someone who is especially able and kind.

Some village health workers receive training and help from an organized program, perhaps the ministry of health. 

In a simple sense, a village health worker is anyone who takes part in making his or her village a healthier place to Live.

This means almost everyone can and should be a health worker.

If you are a community health worker, an auxiliary nurse, or even a doctor, remember this website is not just for you.it is for all the people.          

 Share is a website to help and explain what you know to others.

Here are some suggestions that may help you serve your people's human needs as well as health needs.

1. BE KIND. A friendly word a smile, a hand on the shoulder, or some other sign of caring often means more than anything else you can do. Treat others as your equal. 

2. SHARE YOUR KNOWLEDGE. As a health worker, your first job is to teach. This means helping people learn more about how to keep from getting sick.it also means helping people learn how to recognize and manage their illnesses including the sensible use of home medicines.

3. RESPECT YOUR PEOPLE'S TRADITION AND IDEAS. Because you learn something about modern medicine does not mean you should no longer appreciate the customs and ways of healing of your people. Too often the human touch in the art of healing is lost when medical science moves in.

4.KNOW YOUR LIMITS. No matter how great or small your knowledge and skills, you can do a good job as long as you know and work within your limits. This means: Do what you know how to do. Do not try things you have not learned about or have not had enough experience doing if they might harm or endanger someone.

                  But use your judgment.

Often, what you decide to do or not do will depend on how far you have to go to get more expert help.

Know your limits but also use your head. Always do your best to protect the sick person rather than yourself.

5. KEEP LEARNING. Use every chance you have to learn more. study whatever books or information you can lay your hands on that will help you be a better worker, teacher, or person.

   Always be ready to ask questions of doctors, sanitation officers, agriculture experts, or anyone else you can learn from.

 Never pass up the chance to take refresher courses or get additional training.

   Your first job is to teach, and unless you keep learning more, soon you will not have anything new to teach others.

6. PRACTICE WHAT YOU TEACH. People are more likely to pay attention to what you do than what you say. As a health worker, you want to take special care in your personal life and habits, so as to get a good example for your neighbors.

  Before you ask people to make latrines, be sure your own family has one.

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