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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

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