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- population or defined group
- aggregate
- nursing role that facilitates change in client or agency behavior to more readily achieve goals. This role stresses gathering and analyzing facts and implementing programs.
- change agent
- nursing role that facilitates change in the client or agency behavior to more readily achieve goals. This role includes the activities of serving as an enabler-caalyst, teaching problem-solving skills and activist advocate.
- change partner
- people and the relationships that emerge among them as they develop and use in common some agencies and institutions and a physical environment.
- community
- process of criticaly thinking about the community and getting to know and understand the community and getting to know and understand the community as a client. Assessments help identify community needs, clarify problems, and identify strengths and resou
- community assessment
- meeting collective needs by identifying problems and managing interactions within the community and larger society. The goal of community-oriented practice.
- community health
- Actual or potential difficulties within a target population with identifiable causes and consequences in the environment.
- community health problem
- resources available to meet a community health need.
- community health strength
- a clinical approach in which the nurse and community join in partnership and work together for healthful change.
- community-oriented practice
- collaborative decision-making process participated in by community members and professionals.
- community partnership
- information kept private, such as between health care provider and client
- confidentiality
- collection of gathered and generated data.
- database
- the process of acquiring existing information or developing new information.
- data collection
- teh process of obtaining existing, readily available data
- data gathering
- the development of data, frequently qualitative rather than numerical, by the data collector
- data generation
- provision of information through formal means, such as criteria, meausruement, and statistics, for making rational judgements necessary about outcomes of care.
- evaluation
- the end or terminal point toward which intervention efforts are directed
- goals
- carrying out a plan that is based on careful assesment of need
- implementation
- directed conversation with selected members of a community about community members or groups and events; a direct method of assessment.
- informant interviews
- the involvement among different groups or organizations within the community that are mutually reliant upon each other.
- interdependent
- means or strategies by which objectives are achieved and change is effected
- intervention activities
- a precise behavorial statement of the achievement that will accomplish partial or total realization of a goal; includes the date by which the acheivement is expected to be completed.
- objectives
- conscious and systematic sharing in the life activities and occasionally in the interests and activities of a group of persons; observational methods of assesment; a direct method of data collection.
- participant observation
- a relationship between individuals, groups, or organiztions in which the parties are working together to achieve a joint goal. Often used synonymously with coalitions and alliances, although partnerships usually have focused goals, such as jointly provid
- partnership
- process of identifying problem correlates and interrelationships an dsubstattiating them with relevant data.
- problem analysis
- evaluating problems and establishing priorities according to predetermined criteria
- problem prioritizing
- analysis using previously gathered data.
- secondary analysis
- the community
- setting for practice
- method of assessment in which data from a sample of persons are reported to the data collector.
- surveys
- population group for whom healthful change is sought.
- target of practice
- ideas of life, customs, and ways of behaving that membersof a society regard as desirable.
- value
- a community assessment, th emotorized equivalent of a physical assessment for and individual; windshield refers to looking through the car windshield as the nurse in community health drives through the commmunity collecting data.
- windshield survey