Windshield Survey Bay Ridge is an interesting neighborhood with quiet residential areas, plenty of recreational activities, shops, and restaurants. The homes in Bay Ridge cover a wide spectrum of styles and prices. The housing here is mostly made up of single family homes on tree-lined streets, but there are also a lot of co-ops and some apartments. It's very safe; the neighbors in Bay Ridge are friendly and look out for each other. The population is mainly Italian, Greek, and Irish, but there are
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Windshield Survey Hayden Idaho Geographic Assessment My community is Hayden Lake Idaho, zip code 83835. Hayden Lake is in Kootenai County and located in the northern part of the state about 90 miles from the Canadian border. Hayden Lake shares the same zip code as the city of Hayden located next door to it. Size is 0.68 square miles. Elevation: 2,239 feet and there is 40 miles of shore line (City-Data.com, n.d.). The shore line is heavily populated with homes and has little public access. Hayden
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Windshield Survey Summary and Reflection Mary Lou Lamer NUR/405 January 25, 2013 Dawn Warner Windshield Survey Summary and Reflection Introduction “Although it is necessary to identify health risk factors among individuals and groups in the community, it is of paramount importance that nurses learn to identify and work with health problems of a defined population or the total community”. (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2012, pg. 395). The “windshield survey” is one method that the nurse can
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Quantitative Research Article Critique Frances Vitek Winston-Salem State University NUR 3303 Nursing Research Introduction Nurse residency programs are important in the desire for nursing recruitment and retention. New graduate hires face many stressful challenges transitioning from student to professional RN in the workforce. Loss of a new graduate nurse leads to a great financial loss and ultimately increase in the shortage that in turn can lead to patient safety issues. The leaders
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Image and Voice of Nursing Mary Wilcox Thomas Edison State College Leadership and Management in Nursing NUR428 Mary Wombwell November 27, 2011 Historical image of nursing Florence Nightingale is known to many as the historical image of nursing. She came to prominence for her pioneering work in nursing during the Crimean War where she tended to wounded soldiers rounding at night holding a small lamp. Nightingale was a strong-willed advocate for the field of nursing. Her advocacy was for
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Community Boundaries Boundaries Describe the boundaries of the area being surveyed. Is the area a named neighborhood? Are the boundaries determined by geography, or economic status? Housing Describe the houses in the area including: age of the houses, overall condition of the houses, types of housing (single family, multiple family), how many are for sale or vacant, etc. From the housing, what could be assumed about the economic status of the area?
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5 Practical Methods Direct Observations and Windshield Surveys 50 Practical Methods D irect observations allow one to better understand the environment in which people interact and to see the things some residents may not be aware of, or to better understand a phenomenon. Direct observation may help distill useful information that may not be apparent from your other data collection methods. This type of data collection allows you, the observer, to choose a location
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Windshield survey is the process of walking/driving around a community to abreast with firsthand information or the characteristics of the population and infrastructure as well as well as potential health risks of the population in a defined area. Stanhope and Landcaster (2013) explained windshield survey as “equivalent of a community head-to-toe assessment” (p.220). In this study, I drove through this community understudy three times, days and night, because of its’ large area size. The following
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Windshield survey is primarily performed by driving around a community and taking notes of observations and dynamics of the community resulting in a basic description of the community, its members, and identification of the strengths and weaknesses of the particular community. According to Harkness and DeMarco, (2012), the basis of a windshield survey is to acquire knowledge about a client’s community by conducting an appraisal of the environment in pursuance of comprehending more about where the
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Running Head: Windshield Survey Summary and Reflection Windshield Survey Summary and Reflection Leonard Larino University of Phoenix – Professor Bonnie Schoettle April 27, 2015 Windshield Survey Summary and Reflection Public health nursing involves a community and the overall health of the community. A community is a group within an area or region. These groups vary through various areas. According to Stanhope & Lancaster, they cited the World Health Organization’s definition of
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