NURS-4015-01 Population and Community Health Nursing

One mechanism of beginning to gain familiarity with determinants of health within a community is to perform a windshield survey.  This can be accomplished by either driving or walking through your community of interest (My community of interest for practicum setting is People with developmental disability that lives in a group home. They also attend day program), optionally spending some time in public spaces in observation, and assessing services related to health, economics, and social structure of the environment. 

Rector and Stanley (2022) provide guidelines for a Community Familiarization (Windshield) Survey (Figure 15-3, p. 433) that should be used as the outline for your assessment.  Please become acquainted with the survey categories prior to conducting the assessment. You will notice that the guidelines also asks at several points for information that you may need to research outside of your observation ( e.g. rates of unemployment).
 

Directions:
 

Compose a scholarly paper to summarize your windshield survey.  Write the paper in APA style, using the windshield survey guidelines on p 433 of our textbook and the following guidelines for structure of the paper. Note that there a specific points that should be addressed in the analysis/conclusion. Include a properly formatted title page and reference page, in addition to 4-6 pages of content. Support your content with at least five scholarly references. Primary sources of community data ( e.g., US Census) will be considered as scholarly references for this assignment. 

Components of the Paper:

Title Page –      create a page header with the page number in the upper right corner; omit      the running head

Body of the      paper

Use       the Title of the Paper as a level 1 heading for your       introductory paragraph. This heading is centered, in title case,       with a bold font.

Physical       Environment (Level       1 heading)

Economic       Considerations (Level       1 heading)

Services (Level 1 heading)

Social       Structure (Level       1 heading)

Analysis       and Conclusion (Level       1 heading)

From your        observations: what community level determinants stand out to you as        potential contributors to population health, community and /or public        health. How so? (please choose 3) Do these determinants have the        potential to affect health equity? How so? Do these determinants have        the ability to affect preparation or impact for disaster or public        health emergency*? How so?