Community Health Models

Paper Summary:

The paper explains that the purpose of most community health nursing models includes addressing the specific needs of vulnerable populations and aggregates of communities. The paper notes that nursing models often arise as the need for systematic methods for collecting data regarding patient behaviors and outcomes become apparent. Among these is the precede-proceed model which the paper discuses in detail. The paper describes how this model arose from a need to further develop and enhance the nursing process to ensure that systematic methods are used to help diagnose, treat and evaluate community health problems and initiatives geared toward resolving those problems.

Outline:
Introduction
Define Model and Relate Three Concepts or Ideas of the Model
Model Application to Nursing Process: A Comparison
Applying The Community Health Model
Explain Importance of Community Partnership in Community Health Projects

From the Paper:

"The underlying concepts of the model include providing the basis for planning, implementing and evaluating health educational campaigns with respect to community health nursing (Maltby, H.J. & Robinson, S., 1998). The model involves addressing specific topics during nursing rotation and focuses on the outcomes and causes of patient outcomes with specific emphasis on patient's quality of life first, then planning, implementing and evaluation (Maltby & Robinson, 1998)."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Crichton, A., Farrant, W., Gordon, C. & Robertson, A. (1997). Health care: A community concern? Calgary: University of Calgary Press.
• Ervin, N.E. (2002). Advanced community health nursing practice. New York: Pearson Education Inc.
• Green, L.W. & Kreuter, M.W. (1999). Health promotion planning; An educational and ecological approach (3rd ed). Mountain View: Mayfield.
• Kozier, B., Erb, G., Blais, K., Wilkinson, J., and Van Leuven, K. (1998). Fundamentals of nursing: Concepts, process, and practice. (5th ed.) Redwood City, CA: Addison-Wesley.
• Maltby, H.J. & Robinson, S. (1998). "The role of baccalaureate nursing students in the Matrix of Health Promotion." Journal of Community Health Nursing, 15(3): 136.

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