Using a variety of instruments (Windshield Survey, Community Assessment Tool, Screening interviews, etc.) while in your community, you will assess the community location. This will lead to a list of identified, prioritized health needs and your recommendations for intervention.
You will complete a windshield survey of your community. The objective of a windshield survey is to assess a community in a short, simple way, compiling data to help form an analysis of that community. Simply put, a windshield survey is the equivalent of a community head-to-toe assessment. There are 6 elements that should be included in your windshield survey (See Community Assessment Template Download Community Assessment Template). You will drive through your community and document your findings on a PowerPoint presentation. Take pictures of your community to enhance your PowerPoint presentation.
Module 3 Assignment
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Submitting an external tool
Community Assessment
Using a variety of instruments (Windshield Survey, Community Assessment Tool, Screening interviews, etc.) while in your community, you will assess the community location. This will lead to a list of identified, prioritized health needs and your recommendations for intervention.
You will complete a windshield survey of your community. The objective of a windshield survey is to assess a community in a short, simple way, compiling data to help form an analysis of that community. Simply put, a windshield survey is the equivalent of a community head-to-toe assessment. There are 6 elements that should be included in your windshield survey (See
Community Assessment Template
Download Community Assessment Template
). You will drive through your community and document your findings on a PowerPoint presentation. Take pictures of your community to enhance your PowerPoint presentation.
A. After studying
Module 3: Lecture Materials & Resources
, familiarize yourself with the instruments for:
· A Windshield Survey (Website Resource 15C, p. 425).
· The Community Assessment Tool applied to Phenomenological Communities (Website Resource 15A, p. 425).
· You may also wish to review Chapter 13, Box 13-1 (p. 343) for examples of assessments that may be appropriate for your community population, since the Community Assessment Tool includes some screening data and information from clients.
B. Plan how you will obtain the information for the assessments.
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· Conduct a Windshield Survey assessment.
· Drive around your community and take pictures.
· Create a PowerPoint presentation No more than 10 slides addressing each area of the windshield study.
Submission Instructions:
· The presentation is to be clear and concise and students will lose points for improper grammar, punctuation and misspelling.
· Incorporate a minimum of 3 current (published within the last five years) scholarly journal articles or primary legal sources (statutes, court opinions) within your work. Journal articles and books should be referenced according to APA style (the library has a copy of the APA Manual).
· Your power
Title
Introduction
Provide background and history of the community
Instructions for the following slides:
The slides have questions that can help compile the data needed for your windshield survey.
Emphasize and elaborate your answers.
Provide pictures of the community to enhance your PowerPoint slides.
Community Vitality
Are people visible in the community? What are they doing?
Who are the people living in the neighborhood? What is their age range? What is the predominant age (e.g., elderly, preschoolers, young mothers, or school-aged children)?
What ethnicity or race is most common?
Do you notice tourists or visitors to the community?
Do you observe any people who appear to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol?
Do you see any pregnant women? Do you see women with strollers and young children?
(This can be more than one slide due to all the information it entails)
Indicators of Social and Economic Conditions:
What is the general condition of the homes you observe? Are these single-family homes or multifamily structures? Is there any evidence of dilapidated housing or of areas undergoing urban renewal? Is there public housing? What is its condition?
How do people get from place to another? Is public transportation available? If so, what kind and how effective? How timely? Personal autos? Bikes, etc.? Are there any indicators of the kinds of work available to the residents? Are there job opportunities nearby, such as factories, small business, or military installations? Are there unemployed people visible, such as homeless people?
Do you observe any interest in political campaigns or issues, such as campaign signs?
What kinds of schools and day care centers are available?
(This can be more than one slide due to all the information it entails)
Health Resources:
Do you see evidence of clinics, hospitals, mental illness, substance abuse centers?
Do you see evidence of office of doctors and dentists, health department facilities, urgent care centers, and pharmacies?
Are these resources appropriate and sufficient to address the kinds of problems that exist in this community?
(This can be more than one slide due to all the information it entails)
Environmental Conditions Related to Health:
Do you observe recreational facilities and playgrounds?
Do you see preschools and daycare facilities?
Do you see any restaurants? Is there food being sold on the streets?
What evidence of nuisances like ants, mosquitoes, flies, or rodents do you observe?
Description of the clinical manifestations and assessments.
(This can be more than one slide
Website Resources 15C-2
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Copyright © 2013, 2009, 2005, 2000, 1995 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier Inc.
Maurer: Community/Public Health Nursing Practice, 5th Edition
Windshield Survey
Website Resource 15C
Use the following topics to guide your observational assessment of the community. Be sure to note the condition of facilities and the presence or absence of services, facilities, housing, and population.
Area: Urban or rural, boundaries, densely or sparsely populated, and general condition of the area (i.e., well or poorly maintained)
Demographics: Observations about the people, including sex (mixed or heavily skewed to one sex), ages (i.e., young, old, mix), homogeneous or culturally mixed, and racial and ethnic characteristics
Amenities and Open Spaces: Parks, tennis courts, swimming pools, recreation areas, movie theaters, skating rinks, sports arenas, or lack thereof
Transportation:
Public: Visible transportation such as buses, cabs, street cars, and subways
Private: Cars, motorcycles, bikes, sport utility vehicles (SUVs), and other vehicles, and the condition of the vehicles (i.e., new or old, well or poorly maintained)
Safety: Active or inactive neighborhoods and retail areas, pedestrians, people mingling, children playing, presence of police, presence of gangs, and homes fortified or not (i.e., having safety bars on the windows)
Commercial Buildings and Areas: Type of retail stores and other services such as shopping malls, strip malls, small neighborhood stores, liquor stores, check-cashing establishments, grocery stores, and evidence of industry (i.e., factories in use or abandoned)
Government Offices: Town hall, police station, fire station, court house, human service facilities, and other types of government buildings
Health Services: Drug stores, public clinics, private clinics, hospitals, physicians’ offices, counseling services, drug and alcohol treatment facilities, or other types of health-related buildings and services
Schools Public elementary, middle, or high schools, private schools and types, colleges, and technical schools (e.g., industrial, auto mechanic, beauty schools)
Residential Areas: Types of residences (e.g., apartments, condominiums, row houses, single-family dwellings) and condition (i.e., new or old, well or poorly maintained), condition of lawns or common are
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