Community assessment: an RN-BSN partnership with community.
Conducting a community assessment can be a vital aspect of a community health course for a baccalaureate nursing student. This experience can enable the student to use the nursing process in a basic community assessment as well as provide community decision makers with significant data and analysis about community health related needs and potential solutions. This paper describes use of the Community-as-Partner model by Anderson and McFarlane to do a class project to assess a local community.
Eshlemann
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Bethel College, Mishawaka, Indiana 46545, USA.
Davidhizar
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D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000193:education* / Q000379:methods*; D003153:Community Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004518:Education, Professional, Retraining / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D016294:Models, Nursing; D020380:Needs Assessment / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009730:Nursing Assessment / Q000379:methods*; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D009736:Nursing Process