Teaching Project

Demographics

• Describe the people that you see.

• What races, ethnicities, ages, elderly, children, etc.

• Hispanic, Blacks, and Africans

• Ages ranges from 2-adolescense @ around 1400 I saw a few elders walking in the community. At 1545 you can see many school buses dropping kids off at different destinations.

Physical Environment

• What are the natural boundaries of the community?

• What types of businesses do you see?

• What type of housing is present?

• Are the buildings in good repair?

• Is there access for the disabled?

• Are there any grocery stores in the community?

(Hint: talk to the people)

• I have not seen any natural boundaries in my community

• Some of the businesses I see are food truck, Mexican restaurant, Salvation Army thrift store and two corner stores on either end of the street.

• There are multifamily, apartment complexes, townhouses and single family homes.

• Most of the homes I saw were newly constructed and are in good conditions. Apartments were in various forms of renovation. Most apartments I saw have signs offering move in specials. One of the specials I saw was the first month rent would be free provide you move in by February 1st.

• In some of the apartment complex that I could gain assess has multiple wheel-chair ramps.

• Two grocery stores are located in the community they are, Kroger and Fiesta.

Health and Social Services

• Are there any hospitals or clinics in the community? How many?

• If not, how far away are they?

• What kinds of services are available?

• One major hospital and I have counted 10 clinics 6 urgent cares and 2 emergency rooms.

• All the medical facilities are within 5 minutes of each other.

• The services that are offered in the hospital ranges from family medicine, labs X-rays specialist(ENT, Cardiologist, plastic surgery, OBGYN )

• Clinics all offer well visits, vaccinations, labs, and pregnancy test.

Transportation

• What kinds of public transportation do you see?

• How are people generally moving around the community?

• What are the conditions of the roads?

• Public transportation I saw was the bus system which appears at various bus stops every 15 minutes.

• In the morning I see mostly children and adolescence waiting on transportation. While a few middle age and adolescence walking and riding bikes.

• The conditions of the main roads are good but some of the side roads have cracks and pothole that’s in need of repair.

Safety

• What type of law enforcement do you see in the community?

• Are there any police or fire stations?

• Do you see any hazards in the community?

• The type of law enforcement seen is 1 police station. No fire stations seen.

• I have not seen any hazard in my community.

Communication

• How is information communicated?

• Describe newspapers, billboards, signage, banners, etc. present.

• Information that is used to communicate that I have seen in my community are a few billboards, and a lot of banners, like some stating business open dates.

Education

• What kinds of schools do you see?

• If there are none in the community, how far away are they?

There are two high school 1 middle school and around 4 daycare/school/early childhood.

Recreation

• What types of recreational areas do you see?

• Are there any parks or playgrounds?

• Who is using them?

• Describe their condition.

• The types of recreation area I see are clean parks two to be exact with a basketball court and a track, plus a playing field. At different times you can find adults and adolescence playing basketball or running around the tracks.

Strengths and Weaknesses

If it is safe to do so, get out of your car and ask a few people the following basic questions:

• What are the strengths of the community?

• What are the weaknesses?

• Are there any interesting historical facts about the community? Sum up their responses.

• I have spoken to an elderly lady that has been in the community for some time, and she stated one of the strength of the community was monthly meeting that was held at different Indi duals home. At this meeting they would discuss how to keep the neighborhood safety.

• The weakness of the community at this time is more younger adults are moving in and there is no sense of pride about their community.

No historical facts reported the only thing she stated was that they could walk the streets any time of night without be bother by anyone.

• What do you perceive as the strengths of this community?

• The thing I see about this community is the transportation is good.

• What do you perceive as the weaknesses of this community?

• The weakness I see is adolescent hanging out at the corner store being loud and using foul languages in their conversation, showing little to no respect to shoppers going in the store.

• Consider the differences between assessing a community and a single person and note them down here.

The difference I saw between assessing the community is that I can survey a large area and see a different aspect of the community. With a single person you can encourage them to speak freely and give spontaneous answers.

References:

Anderson, E. T., & McFarlane, J. (2003). Community as partner: Theory and practice in nursing. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott.

Lundy, K. (2016). Community health nursing: Caring for the public's health (Third ed.). Sudbury, MA : Jones and Bartlett