Nursing Process Steps
Community as Partner Process Steps
What is the major different step between community as partner and nursing process?
Analysis - in the community as partner process
Windshield Survey
Observations from driving through a community, collecting objective data (census, etc), interviewing social workers/mayor/health providers for subjective data
-This is for assessing the community aspect/ core of the assessment wheel
Assessment Components
Stressors
threaten the community
ex: economic, disasters, weakness in a component of the community
Lines of Resistance
keeps the community strong
>also called Protective Factors
ex: attitudes, belief systems, strengths in the components
What do you do in the analysis step of community as partner?
Community Diagnosis
collaborate with other people to make a diagnosis and plan to get more community members to uphold and buy in to the plans/interventions
Plan
collaboration with community members makes MEASUREABLE GOALS that you can measure and see for carrying out interventions and comparing pre/post
Primary Prevention examples
- ex: physical distancing and masks
Secondary Prevention examples
Tertiary Prevention examples
Prevention focus for COVID19?
primary prevention focus (secondary and tertiary is shakier and harder right now since the tests are new and potentially unreliable and invalid, and theres no real cure/treatment)
Evaluation step of Community as Partner Process
Did you reach your goal? how do you know?
- Your outcomes become part of your ongoing assessments as you work at continuing improvements in the community
Prevention
the detection and intervention into the cause, risk factors, and precursors of disease
Level of prevention more important and why?
Primary prevention since preventing disease is less costly than treating disease
Primary Prevention
- it is aimed at individuals who are susceptible but have no discernible disease/pathology
Examples of Primary Prevention
Secondary Prevention
-the goal is to detect disease in its early stages
- it involves activities detecting the disease in the early stages BEFORE clinical signs appear
- Reversing or reducing the severity of disease or providing a cure purpose
ex: screenings, immunoglobulin treatments
WE ARE LOOKING FOR DISEASE
Examples of Secondary Preventions
Tertiary Preventions
Examples of Tertiary Preventions
Type of prevention when no one is sick but we want to prevent disease?
Primary