Community (Week 3)

•The _______ is a systematic way of determining a client health status, isolating health concern and problems, developing the plans to remediate them, initiating actions to implement the plan, and finally evaluating the adequacy of the plan in promoting wellness and problem resolution.

• nursing process

• nursing assessment

• nursing skills

• nursing health status

 The nursing process commonly consists of five phases:

• Community assessment

• Community diagnosis

• Planning and evaluation

• Implementation

• Individual diagnosis

is employed to respond and address the health needs of the community when the community is the client.

• nursing process

• nursing assessment

• nursing skills

• nursing health status

•Is the process of searching for and validating relevant community based data according to a specified method, to learn about the interaction among the people, resources and environment.

• Community assessment

• Community diagnosis

• Planning

• Implementation

• evaluation

 Community assessment includes:

• Collecting pertinent community data.

• Analyzing and interpreting the collected data.

• Assessing patients individually

Is the process of determining the real or perceived needs of a defined community of people.

• Community needs assessment

• Community diagnosis

Assessing a Community - Where to begin?

• Identify the community of interest

• Determine purpose of the assessment

• Select assessment strategies

• Assess, document and report findings

• Document patients data in pediatrics wards

Purposes of Community Health Assessment?

• Identify extent & kinds of needs

• Identify community strengths

• Evaluate existing programs

• Determine need for new programs

• Identify community weaknesses

Just as physical examination is important to individual patients, so is examination of the community __________.

• Physical environment

• Health and social services

• Economics

Five senses are used in physical assessment:

• inspection and auscultation

• diagnostic tests

• vital signs

• system review

• laboratory studies.