My Nursing Diagnosis Of A Community

Register to read the introduction… In the beginning I thought that this may be a hard project, but I have since begun to see the community from a different perspective. My first diagnosis for the community is; Ineffective coping, related to increase of poverty/lack of education secondary to loss of jobs and inability to pay for food and housing. Interventions: Find ways for the community to get together and learn how to deal with their problems and make change for each individual for the betterment of the whole community, have meetings at the local library. Find ways for them to first be able to verbalize their feelings, make sure they understand what is happening, and find out their perceptions and fears. Address their education limitations/fears. Provide resources like GED programs, provide community fairs for local trade schools or community colleges to be present and counsel them to in the direction to fill out forms like applications and …show more content…
Interventions- Evaluate the community, have activities to get them involved to find out what their needs are, how they feel and offer them resources to get help. Second intervention-encourage community members and groups to become involved in problem solving activities. Since visually you can sense what some of their needs are have companies present that may offer them solutions. Debt counseling services, mortgage loan representatives, school counselors, Red Cross services, Catholic Charities, Neighborhood service centers, children and family services, city council members and the …show more content…
She further states “that addressing cultural diversity goes beyond knowing the values, beliefs, practices, and customs of diverse groups, other faces of cultural diversity include "religious affiliations, language, physical size, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability (both physical and mental), political orientation, socio-economic status, occupational status and geographical location". According to US Dept of Health and Human Services, in an online Cultural Diversity CEU, culturally competent service providers must take into account the full range of factors that influence how any one individual service recipient behaves and communicates, and further indicated that the two levels of influencing factors are: overall cultural differences between racial and ethnic groups, as well as individual-level differences (based on age, education, literacy, income, gender and geographic