...Windshield Survey of Lake Worth, Florida NUR 405 June 10, 2013 Windshield Survey of Lake Worth Florida As nurses we know medical professionals more than ever are responsible for treating large diverse populations. Understanding cultural differences in various populations is crucial to produce positive outcomes. Nurses have a major role in health care promotion. Nurses should be treating the patient as a whole in mind, body, and spirit. This should be included in community treatment too. Individual, family, environment, and community assessments are necessary to provide the care and improve health care outcomes in the community as a whole. The World Health Organization’ s (WHO) definition of community is “a group of people, often living in a defined geographical area, who share a common culture, values and norms which have been developed by the community in the past and modified in the future” (p. 397). For me this means these people generally have the same of similar beliefs and values. Community health is described as “the meeting of collective needs by identifying problems and managing behaviors within the community itself and between the community and larger society” (p. 401). My understanding of community as the client is the care given has the potential to affect the whole community not just one family. Nurses can provide education and treatment in the community in settings such as schools, parks, civil centers, the workplace, and home. The result...
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...Windshield Survey Housing and Zoning During our drive around the community of Panthersville, we were amazed to see several well-kept communities or subdivisions. This community has a mixture of older homes dating back to the 1950’s and more modern homes being built in the 2000’s. Most of the older homes seen on Kelly Drive and other older streets were build in the 1950’s to 1960’s with a concrete foundation. These homes were similar in sizes, slightly different in shape. These homes were built with car porches (detached and undetached from house) instead of a garage. These homes seen in our survey were clean with well-maintained lawns (no uncut grass due to season). Window air conditioners and outside propane tanks for heating were common with most of these homes. Surveying the area around Clifton Springs Road, Clifton Church Road and Panthersville Road, the houses were newer and modern in structure. Various architectural styles and each house having its own identity were seen in these different subdivisions. The newer homes seen are built with various siding materials and small amounts of brick or concrete material. Each house had either one to two car garages or a paved driveway. The lots were much smaller than those of the older homes. There were no signs of decay around the homes; each home appeared to be well maintained and secured. There were privacy fences and home alarms signs around the majority of the homes. During our survey, there were less than 10 homes seen...
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...Windshield Survey Bronx District 11 Morris Park A windshield survey is assessment tool used in community nursing that helps the community nurse become familiar with a certain area. This identifies the health needs of a particular community focusing on the exclusive needs of a certain community. This involves driving and walking through the targeted community to observe the communities characteristics. The observed neighborhood was the Bronx, district 11 of Morris Park. Morris Park borders Pelham Parkway at the north and on the east and south borders is Amtrak railroad tracks. To the east is the Hutchinson Parkway. Morris Park is comprised of both commercial and residential buildings. The residential buildings are mostly found on the smaller streets. The commercial buildings are on the outskirts of the neighborhood. Housing and Zoning The zoning regulations are a mixture of commercial and residential properties mostly made up of medium to low density occupancy. The residential area is mainly three family houses which accounts for approximately 90% of the buildings. These units are detached, semi-detached and attached houses. Some of the houses are as old as 70 years old with some as young as 10 years old. Most are kept in good condition. All of the homes are equipped with plumbing, heating and some with air conditioners. Open Space While evaluating the community it was found not to have a lot of green or open spaces. On the outskirts of Morris Park there are some...
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...N492 WINDSHIELD SURVEY 2 D ATE OF S URVEY : November 6, 2013 C OMMUNITY N AME AND L OCATION A SSIGNED IN C LINICAL : Zip code 11219 – Borough Park P LACE : Borough Park , as a community , ha s man made borders [see diagram to the right (Olson, Van Wye, Kerker, & Frieden, 2006) ] with Maimonides Medical Center , located at 4802 Tenth Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11219 , serving as the main acute care health facility . On the whole, h ealth care facilities, including a hospital, doctors, dentists, and even specialists, are all available within the borders of the Boro ugh Park community , and all health facilities are all accessible by car and public transportation, including subways and buses. I noted limited garden landscaping and very few animals while walking through the community . The lack of space for landscapin g lessens the threat of poisonous plant availability or soil to threaten children and animals with plant or soil borne disease. Similarly, I saw only a few stray cats, and no dogs or rats limiting the possibility of disease spread through animals. The re are numerous private schools in, and surrounding, zip code 11219 but only a few public schools. I found no reports of overcrowding in the public school system, though World Media Group, LLC (2013) reports that the public school system in zip code 11219 is ranked above average. All school buildings, private and public, appeared...
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...Populations: Milestone1: Community Windshield Survey Form Directions: Please refer to the Milestone 1: Community Windshield Survey Guidelines and grading rubric found in Doc Sharing for specific instructions in order to complete the information below. This assignment is worth 150 points. Type your name above and your answers below directly on this form. Click Save as and save the file with the assignment name and your last name (e.g., “NR443 Windshield Survey Form_Smith”). When you are finished, submit the form to the Week 2 Caring for Populations: Windshield Survey Dropbox by the deadline indicated in your guidelines. Your Name: Jessica Cunningham Date: 5/15/2014 Your Instructor’s Name: Instructor Murray Criteria | Your response | 1. Community introduction: Identify the community you will be using for this assignment. It should be the area where you live or the area surrounding your work setting. | The community being observed is Greensburg, Pennsylvania. The population is around 5,000 with the majority race being Caucasian. Within the community there is a local hospital, two different school districts, and a court house. On any given day many of people are seen either walking or riding bikes within the community. The hospital is located right in the middle of the community within a residential area. The community offers shuttles that take people without transportation around the area and within 30 miles outside the area. | 2. Windshield surveya. vitality | The community...
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...Windshield survey Name: Institution: Course: Tutor: Date: Introduction The community I have chosen to consider in my survey is Kiryas Joel, a village in Monroe, New York where I reside. Majority of the residents in this town are Hasidic Jews, who are strictly bound to the Torah commandments. Yiddish is the language that most of the people in this village speak. The people in this area usually have large families, which makes its economy poor as compared to other communities in the US (Citydata.com, 2013). The village was reported to have the highest poverty rate in the United States, in a survey conducted in 2008. More than 30% of the residents survive below the federal poverty line, with 40% receiving relief food (Citydata.com, 2013). The village has experienced growth in its population in the last few years. The population was at 7, 400 people in 1990, which had increased to 13, 100 in 2000. In 2005, the population of this village had gone up to 18, 300 (Citydata.com, 2013). Community vitality ` The community encompasses black, white, and Indian residents. The estimated number of the various groups interacting in this village is: majority white, and other minority groups, including blacks, Asians, and Latino (Citydata.com, 2013). The number of individuals who have attained higher education to Bachelor’s degree level is approximated to 6.9%, which is comparatively lower than that of New York City; 32.8% (Citydata.com, 2013). The people in this community portray a...
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...Windshield Survey: Hallsville, Missouri Central Methodist University Adaption Nursing in the Community February 16, 2013 Sharon A. Ogle Hallsville, Missouri Community Windshield Survey Hallsville, Missouri is a small town approximately 15 miles north of Columbia, Missouri, within Boone County. The population of Hallsville is approximately 1500 people. People over the age of 65 years old account for 12.9% of the population. Elements & Descriptions of Community Observations Boundaries The boundaries of the community are mainly physical. The physical boundaries include highway B and highway 124. The economic boundaries in this community are very distinct. The area west of highway 124 includes newer larger single family homes. The area east of highway 124 includes older smaller single family homes. The commercial area lies through the middle of the town along highway B. Located in the central portion of the town are handicap accessible low income apartment housing with 16 units. The higher income neighborhoods have adequate sidewalks and the older low income area of town have inadequate or no sidewalks. A small trailer park neighborhood exists on the north side of the town. Sidewalks connecting neighborhoods to commercial areas and to other neighborhoods are inadequate. Housing and Zoning The age of the housing ranges from early 1900’s to recent construction. The more newly constructed homes include attached garages and the older homes have detached. The...
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...Windshield Survey Summary and Reflection I have lived in the neighborhood of Fruitridge Manor in Sacramento for the past three years. Being able to enjoy the proximity to downtown and Tahoe Park has been a perk, because the housing in this area is affordable. When I decided to interview one of my neighbors for this project, I came to the realization that I have not taken the time to enjoy what we have around us. By conducting this windshield survey, I was able to understand why most of the neighbors that live in this area have stayed through the years. Some of the areas that would be covered in this document are the family’s community and their environment, as well as the diversity in community. I will also be defining the following terms; community, community health, community as client, and partnerships. Family’s Community and Environment A community can be defined as the interaction of individuals in a social network, usually focused in a defined territory according to our textbook (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2014, p.190). When interviewing the Doe’s family, it was evident the closeness of their community. Mr. Doe was able to point out each neighbor in the street he lives on and how long they have been living in the community. The pride of ownership is apparent by how the streets are free of clutter, trash and the maintenance of a their front yards. Although the neighborhood has changed through the years, the most visible changed one can see is the aging of members...
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...Community health nurses treat communities through the application of the nursing process. The process is community focused rather than treating the individual. Phase one begins with identifying a community. Phase two is the assessment phase consisting of data collection, interpretation, and analysis. The collection of direct data may be done through focus groups, interviews, observation, and windshield surveys. Denver, Colorado was the focus of my windshield survey, and I saw more in one day than I ever noticed as a resident for four years. I recognized that drug use is prevalent, there are a large number of medical marijuana dispensaries, and the homeless population is greater than I thought previously. Each of these issues in Denver warrants their own community nursing diagnosis. Three priority nursing diagnoses, based solely on the windshield survey, are risk of violence among the businesses of Denver related to neighboring medical marijuana dispensaries, risk of crime among the residents of Denver related to prevalent drug use and sales, and risk of malnutrition among the homeless population of Denver related to lack of access to adequate nutrition. Medical marijuana dispensaries are popping up in every neighborhood of Colorado, but in Denver alone there are sometimes two dispensaries per block. This puts people in the area at risk for increased violence, such as beatings, murder, and violent burglary. If the state regulators limited the number of dispensaries per...
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...Survey Reflection Community health nurses treat communities through the application of the nursing process. The process is community focused rather than treating the individual. Phase one begins with identifying a community. Phase two is the assessment phase consisting of data collection, interpretation, and analysis. The collection of direct data may be done through focus groups, interviews, observation, and windshield surveys. Drug sales and use is visible throughout the Denver area, and the types of illicit drugs used goes well beyond medical marijuana. As I drove around performing my windshield survey, I witnessed people on the street handing money to another person and orally taking what they were given in exchange, and others would put what they were given into their pockets. Marijuana is openly used and rarely questioned. According to the National Drug Intelligence Center (2007), much of the drug-related crime consists of “assaults, home invasions, homicides, and robberies” (para. 1). The community health nurse could decrease the amount of drug use and sales in the area by educating the residents of the area and organizing neighborhood watch groups. This can empower the residents of the area to take a stand and work with law enforcement to decrease the drug activity in the area. The homeless rate in Denver is increasing because of loss of jobs, and the moderate weather draws homeless people from other areas to reside in Denver. There are shelters and food resources...
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...Windshield Survey for Zip Code 77004 Eugene Harris NUR/405 Healthy Communities: Theory And Practice November 28th, 2011 Beth Meadows Community health nursing has become a focal point in healthcare since the 1960s-70s when the civil right movement shifted the goal from a charitable concept to a political commitment in order to rectify racial injustices of the past (Stanhope and Lancaster, 2008). Many programs came about with the goal of addressing inequalities in the delivery of healthcare based upon social-economical status. Nurse practitioners then became an important factor in the delivery of healthcare, thereby affecting services offered in community health clinics which improved local accessibility to healthcare. (Stanhope and Lancaster, 2008). Many dynamic changes occurred since then with nurses making important contributions in disease prevention and health promotion in the community which countered the escalating costs of acute hospital care. The definition of a community, in simplicity, is a group of people who live in the same area, or the area in which they live. Unfortunately, this definition does not completely explain what a community is. A community would be individuals who share the same space and interact with each other either directly or indirectly via mechanisms or environment. A community is more than a cluster of individuals, it also will be constructed of families and aggregates (persons with many commonalities) that are interdependent or whose...
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...Windshield Survey Summary and Reflection Valerie Kwiecien Healthy Communities: Theory and Practice Nur 405 Karen Harriman March 18, 2013 Windshield Survey Summary and Reflection Define Community Community is defined as an organization of individuals whom live in a geographical area that has boundaries. These individuals may share the same culture and values. The individuals are arranged in a social structure as related to relationships, which the community has developed over a length of time. Common beliefs are shared and by doing this the members of the community acquire their own personal and identity within the society. The beliefs and values that have been developed by the community previously may be modified in the future (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2012). Define Community Health Community health is defined as an ongoing series of changes that promote health (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2012). The changes occur within the community between the nurse and the community. Community health has three components. The status of the community, the structure, and the process of the community. The status of the community includes morbidity and mortality rates as well as risk factor profiles. The structure of community health is the services and resources within the community. The process of community health looks at how the communities solve problems. Define Community as a Client The community as a client is defined as a situation...
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...Windshield Survey NUR/405 December 3, 2012 Pamela Smith Abstract Windshield Survey A community is a group of people who live in the same area, interact with each other, and share certain norms and values. A community is defined as a locality-based entity, composed of systems of formal organizations reflecting societal institutions, informal groups, and aggregates that are interdependent and whose function or expressed intent is to meet a wide variety of collective needs (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2012). Community health is the process or characteristics that allow a community’s population and economy to survive. Community health is defined as the meeting of collective needs through identification of problems and management of behaviors within the community itself and between the community and the larger society (Stanhope, & Lancaster, 2012). The community is the client if a nurse works towards helping the community even when this is accomplished by helping one individual at a time. The community is the client only when the nursing focus is on the collective or common good of the population instead of on individual health. Although the nurse may work with individuals, families or other interacting groups, aggregates, or institutions, or within a population, the resulting changes are intended to affect the whole community (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2012). The Community Health Partnership (CHP) is a community development process that engages communities...
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...Statement and Introduction Understanding the relationship between health outcomes to the environment is part of the foundation of modern nursing (Nightingale, 1969). A windshield survey is an informal method used by community health nurses to obtain basic knowledge about a given community. It provides a subjective view of the various physical characteristics of a communal area as observed while driving or walking through a neighborhood. Community assessment is an essential function of community nursing. Understanding the various types of community will help clarify the process. The first type of community described is a “geopolitical community” (Harkness & DeMarco, 2012, p. 177). It is an aggregate of people living or working in a defined geographic area. The second is “phenomenological community” (Harkness & DeMarco, 2012, p. 177), which is a collection of people sharing common interests, or philosophies and inter/intra personal connections. Borders for this type of community are not as clear as a geopolitical community. A phenomenological community can exist within a geopolitical community. An example of this is the homeless. The third is a broader view, encompassing a society, a nation, or the international community of the world as we know it. The Community Assessment: Windshield Survey (Cut and paste the complete table in here. This will add at least 3 pages to the length of your final Essay 2. Read the APA manual to format the table name etc.) Stakeholders ...
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...Community and Population Health Windshield Survey Directions: This assessment is a foundational exercise for you to learn about your environment and explore where you live. Take some time to intentionally explore your county. Look at your county as the home and the place of work for the county residents. While driving through your community, stop for coffee or have lunch in a neighborhood. Find a place to eat where you can sit down as part of the community. You may want to walk around your community as well so that you can explore it from both a driving perspective and a walking perspective. Once you have observed the area, write about your impressions of the county in your notes. Reflect on any surprises and whether the county looks different to you now after taking the time to note the various elements. What would you like to learn more about related to your topic and population of interest? You may want to sketch a map related to your topic area for future reference when writing your community description. Take notes on the county using the following questions as a guide. These questions are only to provide guidance; you may discover other areas that you want to note. Include your findings in the community description section of your paper. You will use this information to complete task 1 for your “Community Health and Population-Focused Nursing” course. Collecting this data will help you define your population of interest and prepare for your practicum...
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