Community Assessment

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A Community Assessment of Rose City Park, NE Portland
Lori Annis, Danielle Thompson, Ben Kostenko, and Neveen Ismail
Linfield College

A Community Assessment of Rose City Park, NE Portland
According to Wilkinson and Treas (2011) Community health nurses function as client advocates, educators, collaborators, counselors, and case managers. In order to perform these roles with full relevancy and functionality, it is important for the nurse to be familiar with the community at hand. Community assessments are thus important to conduct. Rose City Park neighborhood was assessed via a windshield survey by student nurses using
This school was also a brick building occupying a full city block. Similar to Roseway Heights Elementary, the school grounds, including the play area, were mostly covered with pavement and enclosed with a chain-linked fence. A small statue of a woman with loose garb was set to the side of the entrance. There were a few designated crosswalks located on the front two corners of the school grounds. Overall the school was clean in appearance.
Religion
There were several churches present in the area that were of different denominations. Southwest Asian Vicariate was the largest religious establishment in the neighborhood that comprised almost three city blocks. The fence that was seen at an entrance was entirely wood and appeared to be influenced by Asian architecture. Other churches noticed were Rose City Park United Methodist, Friendship Masonic Church, and Lighthouse Mission Church. There was no apparent evident of community involvement observed from the outside of these churches.
Establishing goals and arranging interventions are needed to promote and preserve the health of individuals, aggregates, and communities, as stated in Wilkinson and Treas (2011). The results of Rose City Park neighborhood will be elaborated and analyzed in individual Community Analysis’.

So, what did all this mean? What have you learned about community assessments and the health of communities? Include a citation from your text or Healthy People 2010 that helps underscore the usefulness of a community assessment. For example:
According to Wilkinson and Treas (2011), a community assessment can enable the nurse to make a relevant analysis of an area’s health needs in order to develop interventions to promote, improve, and maintain the health of individuals, families, and groups. or: As pointed out in Healthy People 2010, a healthy community values the belief that health is not just the absence of disease, but also fosters a high quality of life for its residents (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, 2001).
Then offer some kind of transition so that the reader understands that an anlysis of the community assessment will