Winshield Survey and Data Paper

Description

1. Community Data Assessment Project (TWO PARTS)

You will develop a proposed public health nursing intervention to meet an identified need and/ or gap in your own community. This must be within the scope of the staff level public health/ community health nurse.(Note: you cannot propose building facilities, developing a large program, expanding mental health care, or purchasing a mobile health van).

The intervention should demonstrate your application of previous learning in the program related to process improvement and evidence-based nursing practice. Quality peer reviewed references are required to support the need as well as the structure, elements, and evaluation of the intervention. This assignment has 2 parts – WINDSHIELD SURVEY/data collection paper and the project paper.

1. PART I – Windshield Survey/ Community Data Collection Process – (100 points) Collect relevant data about your community covering the required areas in the survey tool. References are required to support the data. The final part of the Survey is your summary of the identified gap/ need that will be the focus of a targeted public health nursing intervention in your Community Assessment Project. The Data Assessment Form is in Course Resources in Modules. The form is a tool to assist you collect your data and information. This is a scholarly paper with appropriate use of tables (see APA Manual for how to format and label tables). Utilize the resources and web sites located in Course Resources in Canvas. In addition, Community Health Assessments are usually published by your county and/ city with relevant information. The data is usually based on county and/ city information. You can also look at Robert Wood Johnson Foundation information on public health issues that may be applicable to your area. Many resources are provided in Course Resources as a starting point for your data
4. These were the instructions above, I wrote some of the paper, however,it has to be revised. The statistics have to be for Pold County , Florida. The professor said that the use of tables is only for data collection, the content of the tables have to be summaried in writing.

PAPER CONTENT:

A. Community Being Assessed

B. Vital Statistics

• Births
  • Deaths
  • Causes of mortality and morbidity
  • Leading infectious diseases
  • Number of healthy days

C. Social Determinants of Health

• • Access to health care
  • Housing
  • Employment
  • Environment -Water and Air quality, pollution
  • Safety- police, fire
  • Education systems
  • Recreation
  • Government role in health access/ provision

D. Identification of health gap or need in your community – this gap/ need must be something at the STAFF level (Tier 1 in Quad Council Competencies document) can address. This need/ gap is the basis to be developed in the Part II paper.