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LP 2: Community Assessment Flashcards

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Asset-based Assessment

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Attention is directed to community strengths and resources as a primary approach to community assessment

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Collaborative Models

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Assessment approach that begins with planning that includes representative parties of a population, including service organizations, corporations, and government officials

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Community

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A group of people sharing common:
Interests
Needs
Resources
Environment 
And interrelating and interacting group of people with shared needs and interests
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Community as a Partner

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Within the process of community assessment, considering the expertise of community dwellers as central to the task of understanding the health and wellbeing of the community

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Developmental Model

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A retrospective, historical analysis of system parameters such as: physical environment, education, safety and transportation, politics and government, health and social services, communication, economics, and recreation in a community

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Epidemiological Model

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A process used to assess a community using data collected from descriptions and statistical relationships to evaluate the level of health and wellbeing within a community to address identified healthcare needs

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Framework

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A model/road map that assists the direction towards a goal

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Functional Health Pattern

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A systematic and deliberate approach to community assessment, evaluating patterns of behavior of community dwellers that occur sequentially across time

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Geopolitical Community

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Group of people who live within identified boundaries and governmental systems

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Phenomenolic Community

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A group of people who have interpersonal and intrapersonal connections

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Windshield Survey

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Observations of a community while driving a car or riding public transportation to collect data for a community assessment

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Community Assessment

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A comprehensive evaluation of the status of a community
Identifies: vulnerable populations, determines unmet needs, and documents community resources

A process of critically thinking about a community and getting to know it

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Aggregate

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Population or a defined group

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Data collection

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The process of obtaining information or developing new information based on evidence

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Survey

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Method of data collection from a sample of persons

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Participant Observation

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Conscious Sharon g of activities with a group as an observational method of assessment

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Community

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Social groups determined by geographic boundaries or common interests and values

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Formal Groups

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Have a purpose and a defined beginning and end

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Informal groups

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Formed to meet a defined need with members of the group able to come in and out of the group as they choose (ex: book club)

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Status

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Physical component such as morbidity or mortality statistics

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Emotional Status

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Member satisfaction

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Community structure

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The services and resources of a community

Demographics
Education level
Racial distribution

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Process

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How well a community functions/ solves problems

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Caregiver burden

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Fatigue or frustration expressed by persons who care for convalescing or chronically ill persons on a daily basis

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Convalescing

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Recovering one’s health and strength over a period of time after an illness or operation.
Recuperating

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Ecomap

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A diagram used to identify the direction and intensity of family relationships between members and/or community institutions of importance to the family

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Family

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Two or more persons who share emotional closeness and identify themselves as members of a family

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Family Assessment

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The process community health nurses make to appraise family healthcare need…
Holistic examination of: cultural, spiritual, and developmental needs along with biopsychosocial needs

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Family Risk Reduction

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Family health protection and promotion behaviors directed to health risks that family members can and cannot control

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Framework

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A loose organization of concepts used to explain a phenomenon in nursing

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Genogram

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A diagram of family relationships between blood relatives that can span two or more generations. Life events such as marriage, divorces, births, and deaths are included. Used to identify relationships and possible patterns of disease

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Grand Nursing Theory

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A nursing theory used as a broad explanation of human experience or environment

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Health Appraisal

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The process families use to perceive the health status of its members (ex: use of selected measures of specific dimensions of health)

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Health Disparities

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Differences or inconsistencies in healthcare delivery that frequently occur with families with low economic status

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Informant

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Person who provides information for either themselves or for someone who is unable to do so (ex parent with infant or an adult child who’s parent has dementia)

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System

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A group that works on the principle that each part contributes to the way the whole functions

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Intergenerational Family

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The differences expressed between people of different generations.
Includes: individual work and lifestyles; affects relationships between family members

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Spillover

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Permeability between two boundaries (work and home)

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Intrafamily Strain

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The effects of stressors on families that make members less sensitive and loving to each other

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Marital Strain

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Effects of stressors on a couple in a relationship that make them less sensitive and loving to each other

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Odds Ratio

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The number of persons likely to have an identifies disorder in a defined group versus the number of persons likely to have the identifies disorder in a control group.
Number found in the first group divided by the number found in the second group

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Theory

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A system of interrelated statements that is used to: explain, predict, control, or understand a phenomenon

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