...Mental Health Community Experience- Nursing-3 Humble Civic Center Christie Curtis, 09/20/05 Curtis_11@yahoo.com Demographics and Purpose of the Selected Community Mental Health Site. The Humble Civic center, located in Humble Texas, hosted a health fair. The settings feature booths from various organizations with the main focus being healthcare. North Harris College was invited to feature a booth on blood pressure and depression screening. Rationale for Selecting the Community Mental health Site This community (what) was selected to give awareness to members of the community about their health and healthcare need which often go unattended. Date and Time of Community Mental Health Site Visit This site was visited on September 20, 2005 from 9am until 5pm. Community Mental Health Site Physical (Layout) The Humble Civic center is a convention arena that can cater to a large number of people. Clients and vendors were greeted and presented with a name tag. The clients were also given a packet that included the different areas that were offered in the center. The booths were laid out adjacent to each other with huge floor spacing between rows. Each organization had banners depicting the themes they were presenting. Several vendors offered items such as pens, glucometer as well as other items or services they provided. Topic(s) of Discussion(s) at the Community Mental Health Site Topics that were offered included blood sugar, blood pressure...
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...Community assessment and analysis Presentation Red group Interview with Community health Nurse Essex County New Jersey Demographic of Essex County Essex County is located in the North eastern part of new jersey. The history of Essex county dates back to 1666 when 30 families from Connecticut established settlement along the banks of Passaic river. Essex County was officially established in 1682 by east jersey legislature. Essex County is 129.631 square miles. The Geopolitical communities are designed by natural or human made boundaries (Maurer and Smith, 2009). It holds community safer for the residents and the governing body. Essex County is bordered by human made boundaries. The weather of the community fluctuates according to the seasons. The usual temperature throughout winter stays within 24 to 42 degrees Fahrenheit. In the summer, it hikes up, and ranges between at 68 to 85 Fahrenheit. Natural disasters like flood, blizzards, snowstorms, heavy rains hurricanes, power outrage, water shortage common here. Essex county is the second most densely populated county in new jersey As of 2010 census population was 783969. The county is made up of 22 municipalities which are widely diverse encompassing large inner-city communities. Essex’s county’s economic wealth is not distributed uniformly across all...
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...Introduction 03 Conclusion 04 Anisa Abbas 22 July 2015 Student no 3618 863 8 Community & Health Psychology PYC4811 Assignment 02 657832 Introduction Community! “A group or network of people who are connected to each other by relatively durable social relations that extend beyond immediate genealogical ties and who mutually define that relationship as important to their social identity and social practice. They are a selforganized network of people with a common agenda or interest who come together by sharing ideas, information and other resources.” Trichardt, a pocket sized town which claims a mere 25 square kilometers in the Gert Sibande district of the Mpumalanga Province has a total of four thousand residents. Our small town has a mixed racial make-up with more than half of the residents being of the white race group. Recently a substantial amount of Asian/Indian families have settled into Trichardt. A possible reason for the influx would be that the location of the Masjid is easily accessible to the Muslim families. The Masjid is a point of gathering for the youth and male folk which also introduces and welcomes any new members into the community. In the past ten years of residing in Trichardt, I have witnessed dozens of caring, sharing and selfless behaviors within our community. There are a few senior members of the community who take on a leadership role who drive projects for funding, feeding and assisting the less fortunate...
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...Community Health and Population-Focused Nursing Joanna Carreon Western Governors University The town of Colma is located in San Mateo County within the state of California. Colma was established on August 5, 1924. It has an elevation of 100 feet above sea level, and measures 1.91 square miles. Population Economic Status Assessment The Population Economic Status Assessment tool assisted in obtaining statistical facts about the population of this community. According to the US Census Bureau, Colma has a population size of 1,837, which includes 848 males and 989 females. The percentage of High School graduates or higher is 86.3%. The average household income is $88,438. The percentage of households at or below poverty level is 10.3%, with unemployment rate of 3.0%, and 9.6% of the total population has health insurance. Racial or ethnic backgrounds include Caucasians, Asians, Hispanics, and African Americans. Neighborhood/Community Safety Inventory The Neighborhood/Community Safety inventory assisted in obtaining information that showed which various hazards are a threat to this community. Colma has a very high earthquake potential as it neighbors the San Andreas Fault, giving it a 735% chance of an earthquake more than the US average. Fog is the typical weather condition that poses a health hazard, as it affects visibility of pedestrians and those in motorized vehicles. There have been 15 fatal traffic incidents...
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...Community Health and Population-Focused Nursing Hillsborough County, Florida is the 4th largest county in Florida. It is comprised of 1,048 square miles of land and 24 square miles of inland water area for a total of 1,072 square miles located midway along the west coast of Florida. It has a diverse culture of people cohabitating in a large community. Assessing the community allows you to see a broader picture of diversity and layers of multicultural issues that affect the community as a whole. Population Economic Status Assessment Hillsborough County is an average sized county for all intents and purposes with a population of approximately 1,316,298 people. The county is also average in income levels with the average household income of $49,596 and only 16.8% of this population being at or below poverty level and 83.2% above the poverty level. Isolating ethnicity, it is the Native Americans with the highest percentage of “poor” individuals 29.8% and African Americans second at 27.7%. Approximately 3% of the population is receiving public assistance in various forms. are receiving assistance in one way or another. According to the Tampa Hillsborough Homeless Initiative there are approximately, 1,931 people living without a fixed residence in the county. This number is slightly down from 2014 numbers of 1,944. The majority race in Hillsborough County is Caucasian at 75.6%, followed by Hispanic or Latino at 26% and African...
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...RN Community Health Nursing Course Project Milestone #2 Small Town USA INTRODUCTION A small town that doesn't have that big city element can be referred to as suburbia, or is predominantly white, with low crime rates. Small Town USA is more predominant than realized. Although the town of Mayberry was a fictional small town that was featured in "The Andy Griffith Show" where almost all the residents are white with little or no minorities it sets a particularly accurate setting and description to the village of Roscoe, Illinois. As with the show, there are very few black residents in the village and those who reside in the village openly acknowledge this. This brief paper will allow a community concern to the use of alcohol in the Village of Roscoe, IL versus the abuse by young adults just over the border in Wisconsin; just a mere 10 minute drive to the North. Because crime is at a minimum in this village, protecting their young is what the elders do. In addition, disease and its prevalence in Illinois is to be addressed as it is a concern that residents in the village recognize and desire to prevent. COMMUNITY At hand is the discussion of a small town that most in the Midwest would desire to live in, the small village of Roscoe IL that is housed in Winnebago County Illinois. The village is mostly set in rural Illinois, however there is the small part of town that even feels like a protected big town. Winnebago County is located...
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...rural communities in the rural areas are faced with serious problems especially on the medical frontline. Inflated medical costs, under insurance and an overstretched health infrastructure. The larger population of the rural set up is of aged people some who are not even insured and are beyond employment age. The rural community comprising of an older and poorer population some in low skilled jobs relying on the government for the provision of healthcare insurance programs and yet some do not even qualify for them. Much of the healthcare infrastructure comprises of a web of clinics, nursing homes and small hospitals that in constant financial struggle and they work with very low financial margins limiting their investment in technology vital for better healthcare provision. More of the rural population suffer from chronic illnesses; arthritis, diabetes, hypertension, mental disorders and heart problems. Some of these preexisting medical conditions are not covered by insurance or the families have to pay higher premiums to be covered. The larger population in rural America does not access good nutrition issues because less population is engaged in agriculture due to their age. This with a sedentary lifestyle brings obese elderly people with lifestyle diseases. The nurses can assist the rural communities by educating them on ways to live and eat healthily. The people need to be advised on following a good balanced diet to promote good health and avoid diet related health problems...
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...Community Health Paper C228/VWT Task 1 By: Ericka Barrera November 20, 2015 A.) Identification of Community Depending on how you drive around, LA County can look very different in various parts of the community. As California’s largest county, with 10,116,705 people in the county, it is not hard to imagine that there are vast differences in even a localized area (U.S. Census Bureau, 2000-2013). With Hispanics making up almost half the population, the remaining Whites, Asians and African Americans, as well as other cultures, lend to a very diverse community. You can be in a very affluent area and drive only a few short miles and be now surrounded by run-down buildings, homeless people on the streets and poverty-stricken neighborhoods. Because of this, our community has many different health concerns that will be addressed in this paper. B.) Assessment of Needs and Risks B1. Population Economic Status In Los Angeles County, of the 10 million residents, 18.9% of households are at or below the poverty level (Los Angeles County, 2015). With the national average being 14.8%, LA County is a community that has to take care of a greater amount of people that are in need (U.S. Census Bureau, 2015). The average household income sits at $54,529 with African Americans being at the lowest median, around $36,609. Concurrently, they are also the population who has the highest percentage of poor, 38.1% (U.S. Census Bureau, 2000-2013). LA County also has a high rate of...
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...the Measles is spread easily from person to person through sneezing and coughing. The virus lives in the throat or nose mucus of an infected individual, and can thrive in the air space where it left the body for as long as two hours (“Measles (Rubeola) Topic-Overview,” 2015). Therefore, an individual who may have had zero contact with an infected person may still contract the disease from that person by simply crossing paths. Obsolete to Outbreak-Health and Vaccination Trends After Rubeola vaccine became available in the U.S. in 1963, reported cases of the measles plummeted, with any reported case being considered extremely rare today. Individuals born before 1957 were at a very high risk of contracting the disease before age 15, resulting in four hundred to five hundred deaths each year. An increased risk is simply not today’s climate, with the disease even reported “eliminated” in 2000. Therefore, the spike of over one hundred cases the first quarter of the year in 2014 raised a lot of questions in the health community (“Measles (Rubeola) Topic-Overview,” 2015). A close look at the Philippines through a socio-economic lens is necessary to understand the beginnings of this outbreak. Twenty five percent of the Filipino population...
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...Data Analysis-Why? A. To study and examine data collected 1 Synthesis of data B. Identify community strengths C. Identify community health needs D. Determine need for further data collection: 1. find if research has been done. 2. Data gaps: determine need for further data collection. Make sure you can support data gaps with information from assessment. E. Look for trends/patterns; how often do you see a recurrent theme? F. Discovery of causative relationships: the R/T portion. I. Basic Steps of Data Analysis(4) 2 Categorize-e.g. by demographics, commonalities. E.g. intra/extra community for health and social services 3 Summarize 4 Compare 5 Inference/Interpretation II. Categorize Data 6 There are many ways to sort and categorize data e.g. demographically by age groups, by problem type 7 Geographic approaches may be used 8 Use of model; we are using the wheel from Neuman’s model. 9 Look for data convergence when categorizing-e.g. how many times do we see data converging in different categories? 10 Look for commonalties, health resources that are available. SEC, age, etc. III. Data Summary 11 Summary statements-summarize each table. 12 Summary statistics-put data into percentages and rates so that different areas/communities can be compared. Raw numbers will not work to compare different areas. 13 Graphic methods of data summary: 14 Remember that tables need concise summary data. P. 222, can put population...
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...Community Health Nursing Case Study Mr. Evans is a new patient to this nurse. This is the first home visit and upon presentation the patient has tachycardia and presumably newly diagnosed Atrial fibrillation, for which he takes Digoxin. According to records last Digoxin level was two months ago. Respiration are increased and adventitious breath sounds are noted. Patient states that this is his baseline. Patient has COPD and takes Proventil PRN and Theo-Dur twice a day. Patient reports he had a hospitalization for “congestion in his heart” and is currently on Lasix 40 BID. Patent denies any acute distress, home health aid reports recent weight loss, loose stools and complaint of nausea. This nurse in the field would interview the patient and his wife after the clinical assessment. I would ask about any anorexia, loose stools, nausea and or vomiting. Patient does take a stool softener daily. After assessing attend skin turgor and sign if dehydration, this nurse would investigate when the patient takes his medication, and if he has been missing any doses of meds. This nurse would ask when his next cardiology follow up is and when he is due for any labs including a BMP since 40 mg of Lasix twice a day is a higher dose, and for a current digoxin level. This nurse would ask how the patient is sleeping and how often he is using his rescue inhaler for shortness of breath and wheezing. This nurse would ask when his next follow up with oncology is and how long...
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...Community Health and PopulationFocused Nursing Task 2 Laurie Webster 000515728 January 3, 2016 Requirements: A. Analyze the selected communicable disease outbreak ( suggested length of 2–3 pages) by doing the following: Measles Measles are a highly contagious disease and the first documented case was in the 9th century. According to the History of Vaccine website measles were first discovered in the US in 1657 in Boston, Massachusetts. ( http://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/timelines/measles ). It is caused by the paramyxovirus family. This virus affects the mucous membranes then spreads to the rest of the body. Before vaccinations measles cause 2.6 million deaths. ( http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs286/en/ ) The spread of measles is highly contagious and is transmitted from one person to the next through coughing and sneezing. In 2014, there was an outbreak of measles in the US caused by travelers from the Philippines. Measles crosses the borders when one infected person travels over the border and transmits the disease. ( http://www.cdc.gov/measles/about/history.html ) Epidemiological Determinants Measles are highly contagious in the unvaccinated person and is spread through contact of nasal and throat secretions. This could be from coughing or sneezing, also through direct contact. The virus remains contagious for up to 2 hours on surfaces and in the air...
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...Health care system is changing, and some of these changes will contribute to raise patient's education and preventive care. In our country an estimated of 26 million adults have Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD). Most of the CKD patients ignore their kidney conditions and the real reasons behind their illness or health problems (Healthy People 2020). The community nurse is focused on preventing complication, in addition to provide and promote healthy lifestyles. Poor control over diabetes and high blood pressure are the main causes that lead to Chronic Kidney Disease (Simons, 2009). It is indispensable to raise the knowledge and information of this disease among families and communities to lower the incidence of Chronic Kidney Disease and End Stages Renal Disease (ESRD). There are a number of actions that can be made to fight this disease. Simple laboratory tests can help to detect any problems affecting the proper function of the kidneys. Patients suffering from diabetes or hypertension should be equipped with several essential tools to successfully face the disease. Other significant actions are promoting and teaching healthy eating habits, raising awareness on weight control, increasing physical activities, getting informed about their conditions by reading related articles. Sometimes patients do not know about these healthy tips which are essential for the enjoyment a better quality life. Below are some related questions: How to prevent complication in our kidney...
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...Community Health Nursing C229 WGU Community Health C229 One of the more serious problems that the Southeast Queens Community is facing is obesity. Obesity has led to many other health concerns in this community such as Type 2 diabetes , heart disease, stroke, and even certain cancers. This presentation looks into who is at risk, and why? And what can be done to help this community. B1. Description of Community The Southeast section of Queens, NY is 1.802 square miles with a population of 34,929 people. (U.S Census Queens County Quick Facts, 2010, para. 2) The population density is 19,388 people per square mile. The community is a very diverse community and home to many foreign born natives mainly from the Caribbean. The neighborhoods are made up of lower to middle class people. The homes are mostly consist of single one and two family detached dwellings and semi attached homes. 75% of the homes observed were well maintained, 25% were in need of repair. The average age of the homes were approximately 50- 60 years old. There are many indicators of ethnicity in the community for example the West Indian restaurants, (Bodegas) which are usually Spanish or Arabic owned corner stores that are mini supermarket. Dominican beauty parlors, Churches on almost every other block, many liquor stores, laundry mats, and dollar stores. B2. Discussion of Health Concern The health concern I discussed during my field project was obesity. The...
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...Functional Health Patterns Community Assessment Guide * Functional Health Pattern (FHP) Template Directions: This FHP template is to be used for organizing community assessment data in preparation for completion of your collaborative learning community (CLC) assignment. Address every bulleted statement in each section with data or rationale for deferral. You may also add additional bullet points if applicable to your community. Value/Belief Pattern Predominant ethnic and cultural groups along with beliefs related to health. * Caucasian 69.9% * Hispanic 17% * Black 5.8% Predominant spiritual beliefs in the community that may influence health. * Christian (several mega churches in the community) * Catholic * New Age, Wiccan ( Predominantly in the Old Colorado City and Manitou areas) Availability of spiritual resources within or near the community (churches/chapels, synagogues, chaplains, Bible studies, sacraments, self-help groups, support groups, etc.). * New Life Church (Mega Church) * Focus on the Family ( church and Christian Publishing company) * St. Mary’s (Parish and school) * Corpus Christi (Catholic church and school) * Colorado Christian School and Church * Temple Shalom (Jewish Synagogue and Community Center) * MADD * Al-Anon * AA * Penrose- St. Francis Health System offers health clinics, support group for cancer pt’s and family, breastfeeding and anti-natal education. Do the community members...
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