Community Health Assessment 1 / Windshield Survey
Community Health Assessment / Windshield Survey
Community Assessment
A community health assessment (sometimes called a CHA), also known as community health needs assessment (sometimes called a CHNA), refers to a state, tribal, local, or territorial health assessment that identifies key health needs and issues through systematic, comprehensive data collection and analysis. Community health assessments use such principles as
- Multisector collaborations that support shared ownership of all phases of community health improvement, including assessment, planning, investment, implementation, and evaluation
- Proactive, broad, and diverse community engagement to improve results
- A definition of community that encompasses both a significant enough area to allow for population-wide interventions and measurable results, and includes a targeted focus to address disparities among subpopulations
- Maximum transparency to improve community engagement and accountability
- Use of evidence-based interventions and encouragement of innovative practices with a thorough evaluation
- Evaluation to inform a continuous improvement process
- Use of the highest quality data pooled from and shared among, diverse public and private sources
(Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/publichealthgateway/cha/plan.html)
Windshield Survey:
“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.
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As stated in the syllabus please present your assignment in an APA format word document, Arial 12 font attached to the forum in the discussion board title “Week 1 discussion questions”. A minimum of 2 evidence-based references is required (not counting the class textbook) no older than 5 years. A minimum of 1000 words are required. Make sure the assessment is based in the community where you live. I don’t want community health assessment from other communities, once again it must be from the community you live. Please mention the zip code of your community on the first page of the assignment.
Please follow the instructions given in the syllabus Discussion Question (DQ) Participation Guidelines” and “Discussion Question (DQ) Submission Guidelines.
RN-BSN PROGRAM
NURSING DEPARTMENT
NUR4636 – COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING
COMMUNITY HEALTH ASSESSMENT/WINSHIELD SURVEY
PROF. EDDIE CRUZ, RN MSN
GUIDELINES:
1. Community description.
2. Community health status (can be obtain from the department of health).
3. The role of the community as a client.
4. Healthy people 2020, lading health indictors in your community.
5. Conclusion.
Also, you must present a table as an appendix with the following topics and description;
Housing
Transportation
Race and ethnicity
Open space
Service centers
Religion and politics
You are going to follow the posting instructions in the syllabus. The assignment will be posted in both the discussion tab of the blackboard under the forum title “Community assessment” and in the SafeAssign exercise in the assignment tab. The assignment is due on January 26, 2020 @ 11:59 and then I will open for you to review your peers and post two replies about their assessment. The value of the replies is 20 points (10 points for each reply).
This assignment has a total of 80 points and the replies 20 points. I will be monitoring plagiarism very closely.
If you have any question you can contact me via FNU email.
