COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT and ANALYSIS SURVEY
In population health nursing, nurses promote the health of population. Nurses and other members of the health team assess community needs and resources as a basis for planning, health promotion, and disease/injury prevention programs for aggregates within the population. This community assessment helps build the knowledge and skills needed to plan, implement, and evaluate a population health intervention (for this course teaching).
Evidence from the survey and analysis will establish an aggregate diagnosis of a teaching/learning need. A literature review of previous programs/interventions will be completed to guide the proposed teaching learning intervention.
The student is required to read Chapters: 11, 12, & 15 in:
Rector, C. (2022). Community & public health nursing: Promoting the public’s health (10th ed.). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Make sure you use Table 15.1, 15.2, & 15.3 to help you understand what data you are responsible for gathering during your community profile survey. Table 15.3 talks about a windshield survey.
The survey is not to be written in a formal style, but proper grammar, spelling, sentence structure, and punctuation is required. The Community Assessment Survey is a Word document, so you can download and complete the document. Please use this document only.
However, the literature review at the end of the document will be summarized in paragraph form utilizing APA (7th ed.) format for the text and references. You must include three scholarly- peer reviewed journal articles (dated within the last 5 years). See Module on APA information on How to Write a Lit Review. List references on a separate page in APA format.
Rubric for the Community Assessment and Analysis
Define Population 10 %
Characteristics of Population 10%
Healthcare Planning 24 %
Analysis 26 %
Literature Review 30 %
See page 2 for the start of the Community Assessment Survey.
Community Assessment & Analysis Survey
Define the vulnerable population (aggregate) you have chosen (Do Not identify name of the agency):
A. Location, population served, an organizational outline, private or
volunteer? Where does funding come from (federal/state, foundations/
grants/private). What is the role of the nurse & his/her credentials?
B. Interview key informants (minimum of at least the 3 listed): preceptor,
administrator, a patient etc. and ask their perception of needs. List what
each informant prioritizes.
Identify characteristics of the vulnerable population (aggregate) you are working with See tables in the textbook (chapter 15) to help with this:
A. Demographics:
age-range
gender
3. race
4. culture and religion
5. socioeconomic status (rate of unemployment, education level, and
income level)
III. Healthcare Planning:
What types of primary (e.g. health promotion and education), secondary (e.g. early diagnosis and treatment), and tertiary (rehabilitation) levels of prevention are available to the vulnerable population? (Develop a levels of prevention pyramid using the format from the example found on Box 15-6 page 440).
Summarize what you saw that would influence health care needs of the vulnerable population. (Review the Windshield survey- page. 432, Box 15-3 (Rector, 2022 and in CoursePoint+ under Real-World Experiences Module 1: Windshield Survey-A Community Assessment Strategy.
IV. Analysis:
Identify three strengths & three weaknesses of vulnerable population related to healthcare needs based on the data collected.
B. Prioritize one need: Make a community/vulnerable population diagnosis-
See pages 438-439 (Rector, 2022)
Set a goal for the vulnerable population. (Correlate it with Healthy People
2030).
List three objectives of the desired outcomes for meeting the goal for the
vulnerable population.
V. Literature Review, total 3 articles:
Summarize two scholarly-peer reviewed journal articles that relate to the
diagnosis-teaching need that was identified in the analysis survey of your
population.
Summarize one scholarly peer-reviewed journal article addressing the
levels of prevention in healthcare. See what other scholars have found in research
and practice in programs/interventions to address this need/problem. There should
be no more than one page per article summary. APA format for text and
references will be required. List references on separate page.
