A community assessment provides the nurse knowledge of the community of interest. The characteristics of the community and relevant public health data provide valuable information related to the health and well-being of the population who live within it. A community assessment is the equivalent of a head-to-toe assessment, but instead of assessing an individual, you are looking at characteristics that define a community. The Community Tool Box website (Section 21; Windshield and Walking Surveys) will guide you as you conduct a modified community assessment.
Directions
Find a friend or someone to drive you through the community. As you travel through your community, take note of features that highlight the community’s unique characteristics.
As you explore your community, you will observe the influence of multiple factors that influence the health of the community’s population.
Aspects to observe in a modified community assessment can include:
Physical environment
Education
Safety and transportation
Politics and government
Health and social services
Recreation
Communication
Economics
Differences among neighborhoods or areas of the community that reflect socioeconomic status, culture, and ethnicity
Prepare a 15-slide (excluding title and reference slides) PowerPoint® presentation that addresses the characteristics of the community that you assessed. The final content slide should highlight key indicators that reflect the health of the community.
***Preferably a location in upstate New York ***
The PowerPoint presentation should include photographs, illustrations, and bullet points. Speaker’s notes must accompany each slide and be at least 100 words in length. You must include at least three scholarly, supporting references, cited within the speaker’s notes and included on the reference slide.
Submit your Assignment to the Assignment Dropbox before midnight on the last day of the unit. Note: Dropbox file size is limited to 1 GB.
Minimum Submission Requirements
This Assessment should be a PowerPoint Ⓡ presentation (minimum 15 slides, excluding reference and title slides).
Respond to the identified areas in a thorough manner, providing specific examples of concepts, topics, definitions, and other elements asked for in the questions. Your presentation and speaker notes should be highly organized, logical, and focused.
Your speaker notes must be written in Standard English and demonstrate exceptional content, organization, style, and grammar and mechanics.
Your presentation should provide a clearly established and sustained viewpoint and purpose.
Your presentation should be well ordered, logical and unified, as well as original and insightful.
A separate slide at the end of your PowerPoint should contain a list of references, in APA format. Use your textbook, the Library, and the internet for research.
Be sure to cite both in-text and reference list citations where appropriate and reference all sources. Your sources and content should follow proper APA citation style. Review the APA formatting and citation style found in the Writing Center. The Writing Center can be found within the Academic Support Center under Academic Tools in the left navigation of your course.
