Community Assessment 2: Scan Outcomes Analyze health/illness, beliefs, values, a

Community Assessment 2: Scan
Outcomes
Analyze health/illness, beliefs, values, attitudes and practices of individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations.
Analyze the health and healthcare, needs of populations.
Integrate professional values, knowledge and competencies into the role of the community health nursing.
Overview
Review all parts of your project, Community Assessment.
The second part of your project requires you to complete a community scan. Before you begin, review the following resources:
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) offers a number of tools for community health assessment and managing the community change process. https://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpao/state-local-programs/change-tool/index.html (Links to an external site.)
Robert Wood Johnson County Health Rankings and Roadmap (Links to an external site.)
County-specific data (Links to an external site.)
For this assignment, you will write a paper comprised of three parts: a community scan, the project scope, and key questions.
What is a community scan?
The community scan prepares you to complete the community assessment. During this phase you will gather information about the community as a whole, and the target population of your project, and determine what the threats and/or issues are.
What does “define the scope” mean?
During this phase you will analyze the threats and/or issues you identified during the scan in order to decide which threats/issues should be addressed. This requires you to apply critical thinking skills.
You want write your scope clearly and concisely.
What are key questions?
Your key questions guide and direct your assessment. Before you begin the assessment you must know what questions you want to have answered, or your assessment will not accomplish what you set out to do.
Action Items
Complete your required reading.
Read the rubric for this assignment.
Review all parts of the project. It is strongly recommended that you use your rubric as you work through this assignment.
Part 1: The community scan:
Complete a 1-2 page community scan by following the steps outlined below.
Identify the community you have selected (i.e. city, county). Write a one-paragraph complete description of the community. Include the numbers, any health concerns as an aggregate of the community.
Identify the population you selected. Write a one-paragraph complete description of the population. Include the numbers, and any health concerns specific to this population.
Describe the role of the community nurse. Write one paragraph describing what the role of the community nurse should be when working with this population. What does the community health nurse need to know about this particular population? What are the common needs for teaching or health promotion and management?
Identify and explain any threats and/or issues. Write 1-2 paragraphs identifying and explaining threats and/or issues that are currently having an impact on the community and that would impact your selected population. For example, does this community have a high incidence of cancer or communicable disease such as HIV or Ebola? The following questions will guide your thinking. You are NOT to answer the questions. You are to write a narrative that identifies and explains threats and/or issues.
Are there any environmental health issues and/or infectious/communicable diseases?
Is there a pending or likely disaster for which this group should prepare?
Is there a significant cultural impact on this population? If so describe it and explain how you know that there are health concerns specific to this population. Support your answer with information gained from the required reading and/or your research about this population.
Part 2: Define the scope
Now that you have identified an issue and/or threat to the community and to your selected population, you are to define the scope (or focus) of your assessment.
Define the scope, or focus of your community assessment. Write a 1-2 paragraph description or definition of the scope (or focus) of your assessment.
Part 3: Write key questions
Identify at least two key questions that will focus your assessment. Select at least two of the questions listed here that will apply to your selected population:
Who are the faith-based and community organizations serving people in my community? What services are they providing and to whom?
What do local residents see as the primary needs for this community?
What are the various intervention strategies being used in my community to address the issues? Are these practices demonstrating any clear outcomes?
Who are the people in my community who care about the issue?
What community organizations focus on the issue? Are they delivering services in a meaningful way?
What are the gaps in service to people in the community? What would a complete system look like?
How would one conduct an evaluation of developing programs?
State at least two key questions of your own that you will use to focus your assessment and that you will answer at the conclusion of your assessment.
Compile Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 into one document. Your document is to include:
Header with NURS445, your first and last name, the assignment title and page number
Community scan (1-2 pages)
Scope (1-2 two paragraphs)
Key questions (one or two questions)
https://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpao/state-local-programs/change-tool/index.html
Robert Wood Johnson County Health Rankings and Roadmap
(Links to an external site.)
County-specific data