Capstone Project
Roseland Community Project NURS. 4251: Nursing Care of Populations Community
Brenda Jepkoech, Tamika Johnson, Rosa Sanchez, Tiowanna Wilder, & Yohanna Ysabel
Theoretical Foundations ● Florence Nightingale's Environmental Theory,
drove the need for an assessment of the Roseland
Community.
● The question is why is Roseland afflicted with
high incidence of violence, disease, and poverty?
● The Environmental Theory's focus is to alter the
client's environment to promote health and
healing.
● Florence Nightingale stated that environmental
factors either helped or hindered a person's
recovery.
● Roseland has been stricken by violence, disease,
and poverty.
● The environment in Roseland breeds disease such
as heart disease, diabetes, and obesity due to the
lack of fresh, healthy food and water.
Community Nursing Diagnosis
● Imbalanced nutrition more than body requirements
related to poor dietary habits, AEB high incidence
of heart disease, obesity, cancer and diabetes.
● Risk for contact transmission exposure related to
multiple sexual partners, unprotected sexual
intercourse subsequent to STIs as AEB to outbreak
of syphilis in the Roseland Community.
● Risk for injury related to violence AEB the number
of fatalities, self-harm, suicide and act of violence.
Conclusions
● As a community, Roseland has been labeled unsafe and
unhealthy, but it is a community health nurse's responsibility to
provide care and advocate for the people of the community.
● The role of the community health nurse is to improve the quality
of life by working to prevent diseases by providing education to
the community about prevalent diseases, providing routine
screenings and wellness visits, by treating disease, and improving
the aggregate health outcome which will yield a greater quality of
life.
Evaluation Plan of Nursing Intervention
● In evaluating Roseland Community, the social and environmental determinants of health that
diminished the quality of health violence, lack of access to nutritional food, and lack of affordable
health insurance.
● On account of increased health competence, the members who reside in this poverty-stricken food
desert can report a reduction in risk factors that can provoke patterns of healthier behaviors.
● In 2021, September 9, through November 4, Chicago Public Health found that there were five
confirmed cases of a syphilis outbreak in the Roseland community.
● The CHN will direct their focus on preventing the progression of Syphilis within the community
by setting up mobile clinical sites for the testing of STIs and passing out protective barriers due to
early screening, testing, and protective barriers, the community has shown a decrease in STIs.
Demographics
● The community of Roseland is located on the far south side of
Chicago, IL. The population is made up of 96% African Americans,
1% Hispanic/Latino and 1% Caucasian & 1% Asian.
● The median household income is $38,562 with a 26%
unemployment rate.
Analysis of data and Community Needs
● After assessing the data, it is concluded that Roseland has a higher violence incident rate
than the rest of the Chicagoland area.
● The poverty rate is also higher in Roseland and, therefore, a possible contributing factor
to the increased violence rate.
● The residents of Roseland are predominantly of a minority group and low income.
● Without the opportunity of quality education, the youth become a part of their
environment and drop out of school
● Provide education to the youths on gun violence.
● Have a nurse on site to provide health and mental
screening.
● Provide education for low cholesterol food.
● Provide information on fresh food pantries in the
community.
Intervention Plan