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1
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What is community?

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people and the relationships that emerge among them as they develop and use in common some agencies and institutions and a physical environment

2
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Community: People

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The community residents

3
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Community: Place

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Both the geographical and time dimensions

4
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Community: Function

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The aims and activities of the community

5
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A community practice setting is an insufficient reason for saying that

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Practice is oriented toward the community client.
(When the location of the practice is in the community but the focus of practice is the individual or mainly, the nursing client remains the individual or family, NOT the whole community)

6
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Community as client requires the overall goal of nursing intervention to be

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the improved health of the community

7
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Community as Client and Partner in Nursing Practice

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  • Direct clinical care and be a part of population-focused community health practice.
  • Improved health of the community remains the overall goal of nursing intervention.
  • Change occurs at several levels.
8
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Community as Client and Parter in Nursing Practice: Two key concepts

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  1. Community Health

2. Partnership for community health

9
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Goals of Community-Oriented Practice

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Nurse and community seek healthful change together

10
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Community health has three common characteristics

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Status
Structure
Process

11
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Community Health: Status

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involves physical (i.e., morbidity and mortality rates), emotional (i.e., client satisfaction), and social (i.e., crime rates) components

12
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Community Health: Structure

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Services and resources in a community

13
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Community Health: Process

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Effective community functioning or problem solving

14
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Goals and Means of Community-Oriented Practice

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Healthy People 2020
Community Partnerships
Strategies to improve community health

15
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Strategies to improve community health

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Multiple originations working together
Guidelines:
APEXPH
PATCH
MAPP
CHANGE
Community Guide
16
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Community Partnerships

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the active participation and involvement of the community or its representatives in healthful change

17
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Most changes aimed at improving community health involve

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partnerships among community residents and health workers from a variety of disciplines

18
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Assessing Community Health Includes

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  • Data collection and interpretation
  • Data gathering
  • Data generation
  • Composite database analysis
  • Data collection methods
  • Community reconnaissance
  • Assessment issues
19
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Data Collection Methods include

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Informant  interviews
Participant observation
Windshield survey
Secondary analysis of existing data
Surveys
20
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Community-Focused Nursing Process: From Assessment to Evaluation Steps

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  1. Assessing Community Health
  2. Identifying Community Problems
  3. Planning the Community Health
  4. Implementing for Community Health
  5. Evaluating the Intervention for Community Health
21
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Planning the Community Health includes

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Analyzing problems
Problem priorities: Criteria
Establishing goals and objectives
Identifying intervention activities

22
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Implementing for Community Health Includes

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Factors influencing implementation

Nurse’s role: Social change process

23
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Evaluating the Intervention for Community Health

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Role of outcomes in the evaluation phase

24
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Personal safety in Community Practice

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  • A prerequisite for effective community-oriented practice

- Should be a consideration throughout the process.

25
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The best to guidelines for judgment in the community are

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An awareness of the community

Common Sense

26
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Three sources of information about a community includes

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  • Other nurse, social workers, or health care providers who are familiar with the dynamics of a given community
  • Community members
  • Your own observations