Defined your community in Brooklyn, New Your:

Veteran Community, Jewish Community, Russian Americans

Share a summary of your Population Assessment.

• Discuss how you could use the steps of the Nursing Process to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate interventions for an identified need or health risk within your own community.
• Use the Public Health Intervention Wheel found on page 14 in your text to develop the intervention(s) you would use.

Your first post in this discussion must be 450 words.

Recourses:

Community Assessment Using the Nursing Process

In Week 4, the focus is on learning how to perform a community assessment with the community as the client. The nursing process can be used to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate nursing interventions in the same way that the nurse performs these functions in the acute care setting. The first step in the assessment of a community is to clearly define the population/community. That process was discussed in Week 3.

The next step in the assessment process is to gather data from which health care needs can be determined. In a community assessment, there are two types of data (existing data and new data) that are important for a complete picture of the designated community/population.

Existing Data

This type of data includes census information, vital statistics, reports available from the Department of Public Health, data from the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC), etc. The community health nurse needs to become proficient in ways to search for existing data that will support the specific population/community that he/she is working with. One of the most helpful websites for collecting important demographic information as well as data such as income levels, education levels, homes with single parent, percentage of children receiving free school lunches, etc. is the following:

demographic information

Other helpful sites include:

• America’s Health Rankings
• Healthy People
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) – National Center for Health Statistics