Nr442 Week 2 Community Research Paper

Lucanus Developmental Center
Chamberlain College of Nursing
NR442: Community Health
Spring 2014

Lucanus Developmental Center
Community health nurses are known to focus on a specific population, advocate, educate, and collaborate with members from a community to promote better health. According to Nies, A. M. & McEwen, M.(2011), “The major goal of community health nursing is to preserve the health of the community and surrounding populations by focusing on health promotion and health maintenance of individuals, families, and groups within the community. Lucanus Developmental Center is a non-profit organization, located in Hollywood, Florida, for individuals with intellectual disabilities, Dementia, and Down Syndrome. The
They will help and support the community to achieve those goals. Their purpose is to provide as many communities as possible a place that they can learn about healthy living and social responsibilities. This is a nonprofit organization that depends on volunteers and contributors in order to operate. The community needs to get involve and each individual will teach others on how chose healthier way of living. This specific agency was selected because we wanted to point out the excellent job that the volunteers of this center do in order to help the community. The students are making sure that the selected population stays fit, healthy and taking care of. They are making a difference in the community by pushing each of these consumers to be able to keep their mobility and independence. They take the consumers to the YMCA to perform multiple activities. The location we chose was YMCA that is located in Hollywood, Florida. Their office hours are Monday-Friday 5:00 AM – 9:30 PM. At this facility they offer programs in Health and Fitness, Aquatics, Camping, Family, childcare, community development, sports, and teens. Since this is a nonprofit organization, Chamberlain College of Nursing supplies nursing students to Lucanus Disability Center in order to help with quality patient education to their consumers. The nurses’ role is to assess the individuals, teach them about better choices for them to improve in
Every individual that attends this center are given effective and quality care. The elderly consumers who attend Lucanus are exposed to little or no exercise at home. Therefore, the work done by Lucanus’s staff, Chamberlain nursing students and other volunteers to keep them active is very important. Their progress is recorded from week to week and we were able to see improvement in all the participants as evidence by increased repetitions and compliance. We also saw a significant improvement in the individual’s endurance. Being able to identify the issues with this population and creating a plan to help them has been very