1. Completed Windshield Survey “The Hammocks”, Miami, FL This will be an ind

1. Completed Windshield Survey “The Hammocks”, Miami, FL
This
will be an individual assignment. Each
student will choose from one of the following cities/community (“The Hammocks”,
Miami, FL)
inIn community health nursing, the client is frequently a
community. A windshield survey (which you have done virtually) is
the motorized equivalent of a physical assessment for an individual patient.
But in this case the community is the client. Just as a nurse in a hospital
setting can assess each system in the human body (e.g., listening to heart
sounds), community health nurses can assess various “systems” in the community
by driving or walking through neighborhoods in the community. The observations
made during a windshield survey provide important first steps that can inform
the public health nurse about “systems” in the community that need more
thorough assessment. For example, if, during the windshield survey, a nurse
observes many overweight people, he or she may hypothesize that proper
nutrition and exercise are areas of weakness for the community. This could lead
to an examination of the availability and usability of parks, sidewalks or
other areas for exercise, etc. Of course, the nurse is visiting only a limited
section of the neighborhood during a specified time, so it is a given that the
perceptions performed in a windshield survey are subjective.