This document contains excerpts from multiple chapters of a nursing textbook that discuss community health nursing. It covers topics such as defining the community as a client, levels of community health practice, the nursing process applied at the community level, community assessment, health promotion and risk reduction strategies. It provides examples of how nurses can work with communities to identify health needs and priorities, plan and implement interventions, and evaluate outcomes.
2. Involvement
Individual Lisa McDonald Individual with various
needs
Individual strengths,
problems, and needs
Client-nurse interaction
Family Moniz family Family system with
individual and group
needs
Individual and family
strengths, problems, and
needs
Interactions with
individuals and the family
group
Group Boy Scout
troop
Alzheimer’s
3. support group
Common interests,
problems, and needs
Interdependency
Group dynamics
Fulfillment of goals
Group member and
leader
Population
group
AIDS patients
in a given state
Pregnant
adolescents in
a school
district
Large, unorganized
group with common
4. interests, problems, and
needs
Assessment of common
problems, needs, and
vital statistics
Application of nursing
process to identified
needs
Organization A workplace
A school
Organized group in a
common location with
shared governance and
goals
Relationship of goals,
structure,
communication, patterns
of organization to its
5. strengths, problems and
needs
Consultant and/or
employee application of
nursing process to
identified needs
Community Italian
neighborhood
Anytown, USA
An aggregate of people
in a common location
with organized social
systems
Analysis of systems,
strengths,
characteristics,
problems, and needs
Community leader,
42. Issue Downstream Upstream
Approach
Critical
Interactionism
Clients:
Obesity rates
Individual
behavior
strategies to
reduce weight.
Lifestyle changes
Bariatric surgery
nursing care.
Health policy
changes.
Vending
machines in
school with
healthier choices.
School lunch
program
modifications.
Target
corporations that
profit from obesity.
45. Focus on
individual: root
cause analysis
that has individual
as focus.
Change behavior
of individual
nurse.
Reeducation of
nurse with
workplace error.
System changes
needed.
What system level
factors lead to
workplace errors?
What
organizational
structures
perpetuate
workplace errors?
A dual approach.
Providers need
changes in
knowledge and
skills to address
root causes of
workplace errors
that move from
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