Community Nursing-Windshield Survey

Windshield Survey  Assignment Guidelines   (Turnitin Assignment)

A. Windshield Survey

The Windshield Survey is comprised of general qualitative observations that give you a snapshot of the community that you can capture as you drive/walk through the community. The demographic data can be obtained online, through the public library, county or township administration buildings. Please address the following in a narrative format following APA guidelines:

1.  Geographical description

• Boundaries, geographical, political, or economic, how is it seen.

• Housing an zoning

• Sign of decay

2. Health Resources

a. Type of services available: health department, private MD, dentist, hospital clinic.

b. Pharmacy, health promotion, mental health

c. School and occupational health services

d. Official and voluntary services

e. Self help and support groups

f. Service organizations, faith-based programs

g. Stores (grocery, retail, drug, dry cleaning, etc.

h. Transportation

3. Citizen safety and protective services

a. Police and fire

b. Shelters for victims of abuse

c. Others: neighborhood watch etc.

4. Services provided by senior citizens senior centers, meals on wheels, transportation, day care, long term care.

a. Parks and recreational areas

5. Community welfare services beyond city/state aid as provisions for emergency food, shelter and clothing.

– Assignment must be presented in an essay style using APA format in the required Arial 12 font with minimum of 1000 words.

– (3) References

– Turnitin Assignment

Community Nursing – Windshield Survey Assignment

Nurses frequently encounter patients who face potentially harmful exposures as a result of environmental agents or because of personal behaviors or characteristics. Providing useful information to patients about such harms and how best to avoid them depends on the availability of accurate evidence about health risks. Moreover, it can be difficult to prevent harms if we do not know what causes them. For example, there would be no smoking cessation programs if research had not provided firm evidence that smoking cigarettes causes or contributes to a wide range of health problems. Thus, identifying factors that affect or cause illness, mortality, or morbidity is an important purpose of many nursing studies.