Windshield Survey Summary and Reflection Mary Lou Lamer NUR/405 January 25, 2013 Dawn Warner Windshield Survey Summary and Reflection Introduction “Although it is necessary to identify health risk factors among individuals and groups in the community, it is of paramount importance that nurses learn to identify and work with health problems of a defined population or the total community”. (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2012, pg. 395). The “windshield survey” is one method that the nurse can use to collect data about a particular community, however, understanding the meaning of community, community health, community as a client, and partnership, as they relay to nursing in the public setting, is important to successful data assessment. Community “Community is a locality – based entity, composed of systems of formal organizations reflecting society’s institutions, informal groups, and aggregates”.
One nursing intervention that could have a positive impact the community is organizing specific programs for the members of the community with neighborhood resources. Neighborhood meetings could be held monthly so that the members can get together to make resolutions to problems within the community. Here is where they can evaluate community resources and discuss ways in which they may become politically active in requesting much needed services for their community. There are some community health partnerships that can assist organizing neighborhood health functions. The American Heart Association can set up a free health screening program in the local Safeway or Rite Aid stores in the neighborhoods.
Community health offers services that protect and promote the health of its residents. What is more, community as a client is based on the assumption that community-nursing practice is community-oriented, seeking healthful change for the whole community (Ardys McNaughton Dunn, 1990). Additionally, allowing a group to pursue health changes for the benefit of the entire group and referring to the concept of community-wide groups of people as the focus of nursing services. Several factors could affect the health of a community. Poor housing conditions, lack of health care services, and lack of education could affect the health of a community.
The primary focus is on performing health screenings, making referrals, and teaching healthy living practices. Schools, camps, work sites, churches, prisons, homeless shelters, shopping malls, organized health fairs, and college campuses are sites where community health nurses meet clients in their own environment (Stanhope & Lancaster,
This broad definition of community health includes the dimensions of process, status, and structure. Assessing community health requires the collection of existing data, generation of missing data, and an analysis of the resulted compilation of data. The community is the client when the nursing effort is concentrated on the joint welfare of the population instead of just on the health of a single individual. The goal of population-centered healthcare is to accomplish helpful change intended to increase the benefit of the entire community as a collective whole. My impression of my participating family’s community and environment is extremely positive.
This county has a behavioral health department. The budget has been cut and cut again but there are still programs available to those who need it that will address their depression. Because it is my findings that some of the pregnant people from the neighborhood are more likely to become depressed, the community health partners would have to take that into consideration when it comes to a treatment plan. These women would need to be educated on birth control, which could be a second diagnosis: knowledge deficit. Some women do not realize that birth control is available to them for free in some cases.
Chiquela Banks November 30, 2013 EBT Task 1 Peer Review: The Effectiveness of Handwashing in Community Health Selected Article The article I chose to review is entitled “The effectiveness of hand hygiene procedures in reducing the risks of infections in home and community settings including handwashing and alcohol-based hand sanitizers”. The following table offers a visual representation of the areas the article addresses. Table A1. Article: | Sally F. Bloomfield, B. P., Allison E. Aiello, P. M., Barry Cookson, F. F., & Carol O’Boyle, P. R. (December 2007). The effectiveness of hand hygiene.
Assignment 1 SUMMARY OF MY CONTRIBUTIONS TO ASYNCHRONOUS ONLINE DISCUSSION REGARDING COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS IN THE MURPHY CASE. My initial statement in the small group online discussion of the Murphy case file was: In relation to the Murphy case, I perceive that the feelings of grief, depression, stress and loss are strongly apparent in the words of Jim and Jean Murphy, feelings that are often felt by the person with dementia as well as family caregivers (Andrews and Scurfield, 2002). Providing care for a loved one can be a very difficult and demanding task, and can have serious effects on the health and well-being of the caregiver (Dunham & Cannon, 2007). In my opinion these feelings, have taken their tole on Jean Murphy and she unintentionally uses malignant social psychology (Kitwood, 1997) in her care giving practice. Baxter (2000) tell us that a separate assessment should be carried out on the main caregiver, to ensure that care for the carer is incorporated into a holistic family plan, unfortunately Mrs Murphy declined the assessment.
However, it is especially appropriate to nursing because it directs the study of community health for community action. The term community health as used in this chapter is the meeting of collective needs by identifying problems and managing behaviors within the community itself and between the community and the larger society. Healthy People 2020 The health indicator that I picked was that applies to my specialty area I would say is the use of tobacco. Tobacco use is the single, most preventable use cause of death in Americans today. I work at a local hospital within the community
Heritage assessment offers an affirmative holistic structure for measurement and provision for racially proficient care. Health tradition evaluation form visualizes health as “the state of equilibrium inside the body, mind, and spirit, and with the family, community, and the powers of the natural world (Spector, 2004b). It helps nurses detect one’s classification with hereditary traditions. At first, nurses need to understand their own beliefs in order to respect each individual’s wishes to facilitate communication that can lead to healing process. Nurses intermingle with people from diverse branch of the world with a mixture of civilizing practices, so cultural alertness seems essential in creating a patient-nurse relationship during the interview phase of the health assessment, initial step of the nursing process.