What data is gathered for socioeconomic status?
Subjective: what is their income? client will provide this info
What data is gathered for employment and working conditions?
Subjective: Occupation and employment history
Work related hazards/benefits
Occupational stressors, environment, morale
Roles, responsibilities, status
Objective: Physical work environment
Nursing Interventions:
-Assistance with finding a job
-Addressing unsafe working conditions
What data is gathered for social support networks and social environments?
Subjective: Who do they have to help them? Do they have friends and family they could rely on? Who is going to help them get through their situation?
objective: who calls them? who visits?
genogram and ecomaps can be used for understanding their support network and social environment
What data is gathered for education and literacy?
Subjective: what is their highest level of education? Where did they go to school?
Objective: can they fill out their own medical forms, meal plans, do they have books around the room?
What can you recommend for clients who do not have access to social support networks?
- Community programs such as school lunch programs, recreational activities, collective kitchens, and support groups.
- Government sectors responsible for housing and employment pertaining to affordable housing, job creation, child care, income security, and financially accessible health services.
-On a societal level, nurses can advocate for policies that can decrease poverty.
Social workers, church groups, hobby groups (hiking, biking)
What program can you recommend for adult clients who are not literate ?
Alberta learning information service (ALIS)
National Adult Literacy Database (NALD)
For people who do not speak english as first language?
- EAL programs
- Immigrant Services Canada
- University of Calgary, CPL, Bow Valley, YWCA
What community resources can a nurse recommend to a person who is unemployed?
- Adult Learning Information Services (ALIS): offers information about career planning, post secondary education and training, educational funding, job searches.
- Calgary community gardens: free produce
- Calgary community kitchens program: helps to provide nutritious food and food classes for people on a budget
- Calgary john howard society: helps people to find jobs as an alternative to crime
-Kerby Centre: provides affordable housing to seniors
Calgary urban Projects society: can offer crisis support and housing subsidies
What community resources can a nurse recommend to a person who is in an unsafe working environment?
Union
Worksafe Alberta
Canadian Center for Occupational Health and Safety
What community resources can a nurse recommend to a person experiencing poverty?
Social worker, speak to city services 311
