International Journal of Nursing

Weather-Health Nursing & Bio-Meteorological Pre-Symptom Time Markers NursingInnovations to Reduce Global Mortality/Morbidity
Patricia A. Sayers

Abstract
The purpose of this article is threefold. First, the need for and discovery of pre-symptom time markers for protective / preventative care associated with cardiac disease, stroke, respiratory disease, and diabetes are discussed. Secondly, a brief overview of the bio-meteorological research which discovered four concurrent pre-symptom time makers for each of these four populations is highlighted. Thirdly, a discussion of the why and how integration of bio-meteorological pre-symptom time markers into protective and preventative nursing care management can reduce global mortality and morbidity among cardiac, stroke, respiratory, and diabetic patients is emphasized. Application of this knowledge falls within the scope of professional nursing practice and will have its greatest impact potential if integrated within the practice of nursing. The proximity of nurses to cardiac, respiratory, and diabetic populations in homes, schools, clinics, occupational settings, hospitals, and tele health services enables timely interventions to fortify wellness prior to periods identified as having bio-meteorological vulnerability and risk. These bio-meteorological periods of vulnerability are repetitively seasonal and have real-time repetitive concurrency among cardiac, stroke, respiratory and diabetic populations residing in northern and southern hemisphere countries studied.

Full Text: PDF     DOI: 10.15640/ijn.v2n1a8