Nursing Assessment of Blood Donation Practices

Running head:   COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT

A Community Assessment of Erie County Volunteer Firefighters and Blood Donation

Department of Nursing

Table of Contents


  I. Background Information on Affiliating Agency……………….

II. Definition of Community ………………………………………………..

III. Approaches Used to Assess Community ………………………………..

IV. Description of Survey ………………………………..

  V. Assessment of Community …………………………………………….

A. People …………………………………………………………………

1.   Age and Gender Distribution ………………………………………

2. Ethnicity …………………………………………………………

3. Educational Levels …………………………………………………

4. Language …………………………………………………………

5. Religion …………………………………………………………….

6. Income ……………………………………………………………

7. Occupations ……………………………………………………..

8. Housing ……………………………………………………………

B. Community Structures

1. Government or Management ……………………………………..

2. Educational Agencies …………………………………………....

3. Agents of Social Control ………………………………………..

4. Informal Power Structures ………………………………………..

5. Production, Consumption & Distribution
        of Goods and Services …………………………………….

6. Family Structures ………………………………………………

C. Other Aspects ………………………………………………………

1. Geography ………………………………………………………

2. Transportation …………………………………………………...

3. Recreation ………………………………………………………

4. Communication ………………………………………………..

D. Health Risk Factors ………………………………………………..

E. Resources for Dealing with Risk Factors …………………………

1. Social Changes Needed to Combat Risk Factors………….

F. Stressors …………………………………………………………

G. Analysis of Data …………………………………………………..

  VI.   Summary …………………………………………………………

  VII.   Conclusions …………………………………………………………

VIII.   Recommendations …………………………………………………..

  IX.   References ……………………………………………………………

    X.   Appendices

A.   American Red Cross Web Site Home Page

B. Neumans Community Assessment Model... [continues]

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