NR443_ CARING FOR THE POPULATION Milestone 1 Community Windshield Survey Form.

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150 points. Caring for Populations: Milestone1: Community Windshield Survey Form Directions: Please refer to the Milestone 1: Community Windshield Survey Guidelines and grading rubric for specific i... nstructions in order to complete the information below. This assignment is worth Type your name, date, and observations directly on this form. Click Save as and save the file with the assignment name and your last name; for example, NR443 Windshield Survey Form_Smith. When you are finished, submit the form to the Week 2 Caring for Populations: Windshield Survey Dropbox by the deadline indicated in your guidelines. Your Name: Date: Criteria Your response 1. Introduction of Community (20 points) Identify the city and state of your community and briefly describe the community you will be using for this assignment. It should be the area where you live or the area surrounding your work setting but must include a residential area. Demographic data are not needed. 2. Windshield Survey (75 points) a. Vitality: Use a majority of the questions from Box 6-2 in your text to describe your observations about the 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? • What is the general appearance of those you observed? Do they appear healthy? Do you notice any people with obvious disabilities, such as those using walkers or wheelchairs, or those with mental or emotional disabilities? Where do they live? • Do you notice residents who are well nourished or malnourished, thin or obese, vigorous or frail, unkempt or scantily dressed, or well dressed and clean? • 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? b. Indicators of social and economic conditions: Use a majority of the questions from Box 6-2 in your text to describe your observations about the 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? • What forms of transportation do people seem to be using? Is there public transit? Are there adequate bus stops with benches and shade? Is transportation to health care resources available? • Are there any indicators of the kinds of work available to residents? Are there job opportunities nearby, such as factories, small businesses, or military installations? Are there unemployed people visible, such as homeless people? • Do you see men congregating in groups on the street? What do they look like, and what are they doing? • Is this a rural area? Are there farms or agricultural businesses? • Do you note any seasonal workers, such as migrant or day laborers? • Do you see any women hanging out along the streets? What are they doing? • Do you observe any children or adolescents out of school during the daytime? • Do you observe any interest in political campaigns or issues, such as campaign signs? • Do you see any evidence of health education on billboards, advertisements, signs, radio stations, or television stations? Do these methods seem appropriate for the people you observed? • What kinds of schools and day care centers are available? c. Health Resources: Use a majority of the Do you notice any hospitals? What kind are they? Where are they located? questions from Box 6-2 in your text to describe your observations • Are there any clinics? Whom do they serve? Are there any family planning services? about the health resources. • Are there doctors’ and dentists’ offices? Are they specialists or generalists? • Do you notice any nursing homes, rehabilitation centers, mental health clinics, alcohol or drug treatment centers, homeless or abused shelters, wellness clinics, health department facilities, urgent care centers, mobile health vehicles, blood donation centers, or pharmacies? • Are these resources appropriate and sufficient to address the kinds of problems that exist in this community? d. Environmental conditions related to health: Use a majority of the questions from Box 6-2 in your text to describe your observations about the environmental conditions. • Do you see evidence of anything that might make you suspicious of ground, water, or air pollutants? • What is the sanitary condition of the housing? Is housing overcrowded, dirty, or in need of repair? Are windows screened? • What is the condition of the roads? Are potholes present? Are drainage systems in place? Are there low water crossings, and do they have warning signals? Are there adequate traffic lights, signs, sidewalks, and curbs? Are railroad crossings fitted with warnings and barriers? Are streets and parking lots well lit? Is this a heavily trafficked area, or are roads rural? Are there curves or features that make the roads hazardous? • Is there handicapped access to buildings, sidewalks, and streets? • Do you observe recreational facilities and playgrounds? Are they being used? Is there a YMCA/YWCA or community center? Are there any day care facilities or preschools? e. Social functioning: • Do you observe any families in the neighborhoods? Can you observe their structure or functioning? Who is caring for the children? What kind of supervision do they have? Is more than one generation present? • Are there any identifiable subgroups related to one another either socially or geographically? Use a majority of the questions from Box 6-2 in your text to describe your observations about the social functioning. NR443 Windshield Survey Form 1/31/16 LS • What evidence of a sense of neighborliness can you observe? • What evidence of community cohesiveness can you observe? Are there any group efforts in the neighborhood to improve the living conditions or the neighborhood? Is there a neighborhood watch? Do community groups post signs for neighborhood meetings? • How many and what type of churches, synagogues, and other places of worship are there? • Can you observe anything that would make you suspicious of social problems, such as gang activity, juvenile delinquency, drug or alcohol abuse, and adolescent pregnancy? f. Attitude toward healthcare: Use a majority of the questions from Box 6-2 in your text to describe your observations about the attitudes toward healthcare. • Do you observe any evidence of folk medicine practice, such as a botanical or herbal medicine shop? Are there any alternative medicine practitioners? • Do you observe that health resources are well utilized or underutilized? • Is there evidence of preventive or wellness care? • Do you observe any efforts to improve the neighborhood’s health? Planned health fairs? Do you see advertisements for health-related events, clinics, or lectures? 3. Vulnerable population (20 points) Describe a vulnerable population or aggregate that you identified during your survey. What did you observe about this group such as their appearance and actions? 4. Conclusion (20 points) Provide a summary of your findings and your conclusion. What potential problems did you identify? 5. References: References are not NR443 Windshield Survey Form 1/31/16 LS required for this survey: If you used references, they must be listed in APA format. If you include any references here, you must also include an in-text citation (author, year) in the body of the form. NR443 Windshield Survey Form 1/31/16 LS [Show More]

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