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