NCM 113/A: COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING 2 (RLE) MODULE 4: COMMUNITY DIAGNOSIS AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRESS REP
This first part of the module asks you to reflect the phases of nursing process which is crucial in identifying the health needs and addressing health problem of the community.
Drawing on your clinical experience identify the methods of collecting data similarly in conducting community assessment. View the provided video 1 about community needs assessment attached to your flash drive. Make a summary of the different methods used in assessment. Formative activity, ungraded. Check your answers in the appendix.
The process of assessment in community health nursing incudes intensive fact finding, the application of professional judgement in estimating the meaning and importance of this facts to the family and the community, the availability of nursing resources that can be provided, and the degree of change which nursing intervention can be expected.
Activity 1: If collecting data for the nursing diagnosis uses the nursing assessment tool by interview, how different would that be for collecting data for a community nursing diagnosis?
This part of the module discusses community health nursing process, identify the phases of the nursing process and the basic information that needs to be collected on four clients such as individual, family, population group and community.
Community health nursing process is a logical and systematic way of processing information gathered from different sources and translating intentions into meaningful actions or interventions.
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