How to promote community health using nursing and health planning processes.

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The goal of this paper is to promote community health using nursing and health planning processes. Students will assess a community of their choosing (COMMUNITY WILL BE ALGONQUIN , IL) using the provided tool. Data collected will be interpreted and used to identify health problems in the community. Students will develop community nursing diagnoses, plan interventions to reduce the identified health problems, and discuss how they would evaluate if the chosen interventions were effective/successful. Students should plan interventions as if they had unlimited resources available to them; whether that be time, money, personnel, etc.

7th Edition APA format and references are required

It is expected that all aspects of the project are thoroughly discussed in the paper. However, there is not a set page count for the paper.

There are two items that must be submitted during the semester before the final paper submission. The Windshield survey tool and the community diagnosis.

-  all content areas must be addressed.

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1. Windshield Survey Tool

- Students will select a community of their choice ( ALGONQUIN, IL) . The community can be one that the student lives in or one that is nearby. A windshield survey will need to be performed in order to gather data on the community that was selected. (See second attachment named “Windshield Survey Tool” that includes data to be gathered while completing a windshield survey). Remember, primary and secondary data can be collected for the windshield survey and for the purpose of this clinical project. It is imperative that you also walk around or drive around the community to gather the information that is needed.

2. Clinical Paper

The content that should be addressed in your paper is listed below.

1.     Windshield Survey- discuss your findings from your completed Windshield survey

2.     Statistical Data- Information you want to address in statistical data include the following.

statics on population:

age, ethnicity, education level, employment, prevalent disease, poverty levels, religion

*You can write this in paragraph form, you can list statistics, and you can also use graphs. Make sure to cite your references.

  3.     Environmental- information you want to address includes the following.

Is there anything that contributes to pollution or even hazardous chemicals to the community? Ie. Smokestacks, factories, high traffic areas?

Is your community over-populated or heavily populated where it would have a negative impact on the community?

Age of homes in your community? Is there a lot of lead exposure?

Are there any green spaces in your community?

Other things you could include are there lakes or rivers in your community? Farming? Any positive or negative impacts from these things?

4.     Community Diagnosis- Once you have completed your Windshield survey, statistical data and gathered your environmental data, you will have enough information to analyze to determine what your community diagnosis will be. What problems do you see that you want to try to improve?  Create your community diagnosis from that.

For your community diagnosis, you want to identify problems based off your community assessment. Your community diagnosis should incorporate information from the community assessment, general nursing knowledge, and epidemiological concepts. They are typically written in the format below. Make sure whatever diagnosis you come up with for a problem you chose, that you have a plan that you can implement to try to improve that problem.

For example,

“Risk of (a specific problem or risk in the community) among (the specific population that is affected by the problem or risk) related to (strengths and weaknesses in the community that influence the problem or risk)”.

Risk of low birth weight among adolescents who are pregnant in the downtown district related to low income, lack of availability of nutritious food, and tobacco use as evidenced by lack of secure housing, food bank use, increased rates of unemployment and smoking among pregnant adolescents.

What is your community diagnosis? Ie. Does it have to do with sex trafficking in the area or educational level of children in your community? It could be any health issue that the student has identified.

5.     Focus/Purpose

a.     What do you want your program to accomplish?

b.     What is your priority problem?

c.      In your focus – the narrower, the better chance of affect

d.     What are the key questions you want to answer?

e.     What is the client need you are attempting to meet/affect?

6.     Personnel, resources, timetable

-Discuss personnel and resources you would need for your plan to be successful. Remember, assume you would have access to any resources you would need. Include a proposed timetable of the length of time the plan would take to implement.

7.     Plan

a.     In your plan development consider whether there are other programs addressing the same need

b.     Show that you involved your population in the plan; if not possible state why it was not possible

c.      Include a back- up plan if something in your plan fails

8.     Objectives

a.     Make sure they are specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time-bound

b.     Use 2020 Healthy People objectives

c.      Make sure you write a percent in the objective so that you can measure whether it has been achieved.

9.     Evaluation

a.     Discuss relevance, adequacy, progress made?, efficiency (were resources wasted?), effectiveness, impact on short and long term change, sustainability

*Your final paper should include all the information from sections 1-9 listed above. *