RIMS Nursing Officer - 2022
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What was the goal of National Policy For Persons With Disabilities, 2006?

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Explanation

  • The National Policy for Persons with Disabilities (2006) is built on a three-pronged approach to empower individuals with disabilities.
  • Physical Rehabilitation: This involves medical care, therapies, and providing assistive devices to restore or improve physical functioning.
  • Educational Rehabilitation: This pillar focuses on ensuring access to education through inclusive schooling, special education programs, and financial support like scholarships.
  • Economic Rehabilitation: This aims to foster financial independence through vocational training, promoting self-employment, and creating job opportunities.

Why Other Options Were Wrong

  • Option B: This option includes 'mental and social' rehabilitation. While social integration is an ultimate goal and mental health is important, the 2006 policy's primary, stated mechanisms were education and economic empowerment, not direct 'mental health' programs in the same vein.
  • Option C: This option includes 'psychological and spiritual' rehabilitation. 'Spiritual' well-being is a personal domain and not a stated objective of a national government policy. 'Psychological' support is a part of rehabilitation but not a primary pillar of this specific policy document.
  • Option D: This option substitutes the crucial 'educational' pillar with 'psychological'. The 2006 policy strongly emphasizes education as the foundational pathway to achieving economic independence and full societal participation.

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Clinical Relevance
  • Nursing practice connection: This is primarily an exam-oriented knowledge point with limited direct bedside application, so retain Goals of the National Policy for Persons with Disabilities, 2006 as background academic context rather than a clinical decision trigger.
  • Nurses play a vital role in implementing this policy at the grassroots level by identifying persons with disabilities and connecting them to relevant services.
  • Knowledge of this policy empowers nurses to advocate for their patients' rights, ensuring they receive benefits like disability certificates, assistive devices (ADIP scheme), and access to educational and vocational programs.
  • Nurses can guide families on navigating the system to access scholarships for children with disabilities or financial aid for self-employment for adults.
How to Approach the Question
  • First, identify the core subject of the question: the 'goal' of the 'National Policy For Persons With Disabilities, 2006'.
  • This is a factual recall question. Access your knowledge about major national health and welfare policies in India.
  • Recall the main purpose of this policy, which was to move from a charity-based model to a rights-based model, focusing on empowerment and inclusion.
  • Analyze the options by breaking them down into their components. Look for the triad of goals that best represents a structured, rights-based approach.
  • Evaluate the terms. 'Physical', 'educational', and 'economic' represent concrete, measurable areas of government intervention (healthcare, schools, jobs).
  • Eliminate options with terms that are less specific to a policy framework, such as 'spiritual', or those that are components but not the main pillars, like 'psychological' or 'social' in this context.
Concept Tested & Keywords
  • Concept Tested: Goals of the National Policy for Persons with Disabilities, 2006
  • Stem keywords: National Policy For Persons With Disabilities, 2006, goal
  • Lead-in keywords: What was

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Reference Book

E6 Text Book Of Pediatric Nursing 3rd Panchali Pal — Part 3 (pp 477-702 of 713) p. 141-143

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