Continue with Community Nursing Care Plan Related to Alief Community

Alief, TX

NR442: COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING September, 2022

CARE OF POPULATION Ashleigh Nguyen, Nataliya Barros, Lolo Napo- Wokoma, Sofia Herrera

WINDSHIELD SURVEY (pictured of the community)

WINDSHIELD SURVEY (PICTURES OF THE COMMUNITY)

WINDSHIELD SURVEY (PICTURES OF THE COMMUNITY)

COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT

● Alief, TX located in South West Area of Houston. ● Surrounded by major highways: Hwy 59, Westpark Tollway,

Beltway 8, and Hwy 6. ● No major hospital within 11-15 miles radius. ● One major food store (HEB) within 7 miles. ● Fast food chain restaurants with less than a mile distance

between each other. ● Heavy traffic and no public transportation. ● No community parks in surrounding area.

COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT (DEMOGRAPHICS DATA)

● Population: 113,459 ● Land Area: 14.13 sq miles ● Male population: 57,615 (50.78%) ● Female Population: 55,844 (49.22%) ● Median age:33 years old (3.1%) ● Median household income: $43,880 (7.0%) ● Family poverty%: (-1.3% below; 2.6% above) ● Race and Ethnicity: 47% Hispanic, 26% African American, 19% Asian, and 6%

whites.

AGGREGATE POPULATION

Alief residence is a working-class families.

It’s population is 113, 459 people and population density of 2900/km2.

Predominantly hispanic community with low income and increasing rate of unemployment.

The district median household income is $37,353 with median family income of $40,326.

4% of population with master’s degree, 12% - bachelor’s, and 29% some college courses.

AGGREGATE POPULATION

COMMUNITY HEALTH DIAGNOSIS 1. Increase the accidents of cardiac diseases among Alief residents related to inadequate access to

health care professionals and lack of community resources to promote a healthy living. 2. Increased rates of diabetes in population aged 18 years and older due to obesity and physical

inactivity as evidenced by increased percentage from 16.3 to 18.6.

1. Ineffective health maintenance among Hispanic male adults related to inadequate access to health care professionals and lack of community resources as evidence by poor physical inactivity shown through high percentage rate obesity increasing 23% from 2016-2019.

2. Deficit knowledge among older adults related to poor health literacy associated with cardiac diseases as evidence by high hospitals admission for cardiac related emergencies.

Wellness Diagnosis

Residents of Alief have potential for improving physical well-being among teenagers and male adults related to the incidence of diabetes and cardiac diseases as evidenced by dietary and lifestyle changes, and increased physical activities.

Sofia’s wellness dx:

Deficient community health related to lack of physical activity resources and lack of motivation to improve health and stress management as evidence by increase crime rates and lack of safe public parks to perform physical activities.

PRIORITY HEALTH ISSUE

➢ Short term goal - Clients will show that they know how to properly administer insulin injections in a

return demonstration and monitor their blood glucose levels within the next 30 days.

➢ Long term goal - One year from now, the number of people diagnosed with diabetes will be 10% lower

than it was the year before.

INTERVENTIONS FOR PRIORITY DIAGNOSIS

e. Interventions for Priority Diagnosis - 10 points/10%

• Proposed interventions are specific to the identified priority diagnosis and assist in meeting the identified

goals.

• Proposed interventions are supported by scholarly, evidence based sources.

• Identifies the level of prevention for proposed interventions.

• Identifies the category and level of practice (community, systems, or individual/family) that best describes

the proposed interventions from the Public Health Intervention Wheel (Nies, 2019, p. 14).

EVALUATION FOR PRIORITY DIAGNOSIS

● Outcome Criteria: ○

● Data Collection:

Evaluation Plan

Questions in relations to desired outcomes:

● Who will be evaluated? ○

● When will it be assessed? ○

● How will it be assessed? ○

Community Resources ● Community Agencies

○ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ○ Texas Department of State Health Services

● Evidence-Based Rationale ○ The CDC

● Resources at Agency used by Community

REFERENCES