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| Community health nurse role in assessing community needs |
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Definition
- interacting with community partners serving the community at large
- witnessing the interaction between com programs and the response of the client to the services
- identifying future services based on visible needs of the community members and pop groups |
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| Components of Community Assessment |
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Definition
1. People
- demographic, biological factors, social factors, cultural factors
2. Place or Environment
- Physical factors, environmental factors
3. Social Systems |
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| direct discussion with community members for purposes of obtaining ideas and opinions from key informants |
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| Pro/con of informant interviews |
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Definition
Pro:
minimal cost, future supporters, offer insight into beliefs/attitudes, read/write not required, more detailed
Con:
built in bias, meeting time and place |
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| open public meeting to collect data |
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| pro/con of community forum |
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Definition
Pro:
opportunity for community input, minimal cost
Con:
convenient time/place, potential drifting, adequate participation, less vocal reluctant to speak |
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| use of existing data (death statistics, birth statistics, census data, mortality, morbidity, health records, minutes from meetings, prior health surveys) to assess problems |
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| Pro/Con of secondary data |
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Definition
Pro:
database of prior concerns/needs
ability to trend issues over time
Con:
data may not represent current situation
time consuming |
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| Participant observation with pro/con |
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Definition
observation of formal or informal community activities
Pro:
indication of community priorities
environmental profile
ID of power structures
Con:
bias
time consuming
inability to ask questions |
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| Windshield survey pro/con |
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Definition
Pro:
provides descriptive overview of community
Con:
driver to visualize and document
time consuming
no input from community |
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| Focus groups with pro/con |
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Definition
directed talk with representative sample
Pro:
potential supporters
insight into community support
read/write not required
Con:
possible irrelevant issues discussion
getting people
need strong facilitator
difficult to ensure sample is representative
time consuming to transcribe discussion |
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Definition
specific questions in written formal
Pro:
data on population/problem
random sampling
written or online
no contact needed
Con:
low response
expensive
time consuming
possible superficial data
read/write ability |
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1. gathering collected data into composite database
2. assessing completeness
3. ID and generate missing data
4. synthesize and ID themes
5. ID needs/problems
6. ID strengths/resources
problem analysis for each ID'd problem |
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| Community Health Diagnosis |
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Definition
Problems identified by community assessments that incorporate information from community assessment, general nursing knowledge and epidemiological concepts
Risk of (specific problem or risk in the community) among (specific pop) related to (strengths/weaknesses of community) |
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| Preplanning - Community health program |
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Definition
brainstorm ideas
- gain entry into community and establish trust
- community awareness, support, involvement
- coordinate collaborations that have similar interests in addressing problems |
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| Assessment - community health program |
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Definition
collect data about the community and its members.
- needs assessment and ID strengths/weaknesses
- assess availability of resources
- evaluation secondary health data |
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| Diagnosis - community health program |
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Definition
ID/prioritize health needs of community
- analyze data to determine health needs
- work with community, local health pro and administrators to develop priorities and establish outcomes |
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| Planning - community health program |
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Definition
Develop interventions to meet identified outcomes
- possible solutions to meet the health need and select the best option
- establish goals/objectives with data
- select strategies/interventions to meet objectives
- timeline
- responsibility for each intervention
- funding
- plan evaluation |
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| Implementation - community health program |
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Definition
carry out the plan
- initiate interventions to achieve goals and objectives by plan
- monitor intervention process and response of community |
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| Evaluation - community health program |
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Definition
Examine success of interventions.
- strengths/weaknesses of program
- determine achievement of desired outcome
- adequacy, efficiency, appropriateness, cost
- recommend and implement modifications to better meet needs
- share findings, keep evaluating |
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