PHASES OF NURSING PROCESS IN THE
COMMUNITY
IMPLEMENTATION EVALUATION
ASSESSMENT DIAGNOSIS PLANNING
and ANALYSIS (Selected Intervention * Includes both process
Examples) and outcomes
* Include
community * Identify health * Involve * Health Education *Community members
members in issues and community
* Screening contribute to evaluation
process problems leaders
* Direct health services process
COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING
Planning
A continuous social process by which data about clients are collected and analyzed for the purpose of developing a plan to generate new ideas,
meet identified client needs, solve health problems, and guide changes in health care delivery.
Can be proactive and reactive.
primary level of prevention secondary level of
prevention tertiary level of prevention
It often takes multidisciplinary approach, which requires excellent team work and thorough communication. The roles of collaborator,
coordinator, and facilitator are important when working with the community as clients.
• TARGET POPULATION
Persons whom you desire change to occur. Planning care for groups or population results in programs. Therefore,
program planning is used when planning care at the community level.
According to Mercado (1993)
1. Planning is futuristic.
2. Planning is change oriented.
3. Planning is a continuous and dynamic process.
Planning is flexible. Priority Setting W.H.O. SOCIO-DRAMA
Consideration • From the word “socio” meaning society, and
1. Identifying interventions “drama” which means one’s circumstances or
events experienced by people, nature and
2. Finding evidence
behavior, the relationship of a person’s
3. Making decision relationship with others and so on.
4. Making appeals • Used to explore people’s attitude, feelings and
How to plan programs at the community level: behavior. They often focus on social or political
The nurse must understand the following: concerns, how some people affect the lives of
1. How the community works. others. Their main purpose is to increase
people’s awareness of underlying human
2. How it is organized.
problems, and to explore possibilities for action
3. Who are its key leaders. and change.
4. How the community has approached similar
problems. How other programs have been “IF WE FAIL TO PLAN, WE PLAN TO FAIL.”
introduced in the past.
The Planning Cycle (Mercado)
SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS
> Gather health data
> Tabulate, analyze and interpret data
> Identify health problem
> Set Priority
GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
EVALUATION
> Define program goals and objectives
> Determine outcomes
> Assign priorities
> Specify criteria and standards
STRATEGY/Activity Setting
> Design CHN programs
> Ascertain resources
>Analyze constraints and limitations
Priority Setting W.H.O. Consideration
SOCIO-DRAMA
5. Identifying interventions
• From the word “socio” meaning society,
6. Finding evidence and “drama” which means one’s
7. Making decision circumstances or events experienced by
8. Making appeals people, nature and behavior, the
How to plan programs at the community relationship of a person’s relationship with
others and so on.
level:
The nurse must understand the following: • Used to explore people’s attitude, feelings
and behavior. They often focus on social or
5. How the community works.
political concerns, how some people affect
6. How it is organized. the lives of others. Their main purpose is to
7. Who are its key leaders. increase people’s awareness of underlying
human problems, and to explore
8. How the community has approached
possibilities for action and change.
similar problems.
“IF WE FAIL TO PLAN, WE PLAN TO FAIL.”
9. How other programs have been
introduced in the past.
IF WE FAIL TO PLAN, WE PLAN TO FAIL.”
-Anonymous-
