NAME: _____Thao Nguyen________________________________________________ 1. For the community health nurse, what is the process of data collection in the community? Give 2 examples from textbook, lectures, and your community assessment project.
Course Objectives 2,3,4,5: Chapter 15 and your community health assessment project (20 points or 10 pts. for each example and the written description of the example)
Be sure to include two of the following: Observing the community; Interviewing people in the community; Reviewing records (what type of records); Reading local news/Media; Professional literature; Conduct surveys; Governing body or policy changes (CDC recommendations)
The process of data collection starts with assessing the community. For my community health project at the AFLAC Children’s Hospital, I and Alyssa went up there to observe the community and it was in the middle of downtown Atlanta. We got lost for an hour on the road and the community was over-populated, there was no more parking space on the deck by the hospital, so I and Alyssa had to get Valet parking. Windshield survey is an observation of the community, it was a clean hospital but the location was hectic and unsafe. We interviewed the Nurse Educator at the hospital named Elizabeth Holtzshaw and she gave us a tour of the hospital and explained the different specialty teams for chemotherapy, lymphoma, and leukemia. The rooms had video games and PlayStation for the kids to play and a playground outside for recreation. Interviewing someone in the community is essential to get the information because they are essential to the community as we know more by someone who lives and experiences that part of the community since I am 2 hours away from that community, I do not know what happens around in that community. We reviewed community records on-line for morbidity and mortality statistics and the