Chapter 16 Community Diagnosis, Planning, and Intervention
Sergio Osegueda Acuna MSN-FNP-BC
MRC
Nursing Process with communities
Population-focused health planning
Health planning is 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.
To date, you have been responsible primarily for developing a plan of care for the individual client.
History of U.S. Health Planning
The history of health planning in the United States has alternated between the federal and state governments.
Before the 1960s, health planning occurred primarily at the state level.
In the 1960s, health planning became a federal effort.
In 1966, the Comprehensive Health Planning and Public Health Service Amendment was passed to enable states and local communities to plan for better health resources.
In the 1980s, President Reagan aimed to reduce both the size of the federal government and the influence the federal government had on states. His administration eliminated the federal budget and planning requirements while encouraging states to make their own planning decisions.
History of U.S. Health Planning
In 1980, the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act encouraged the use of noninstitutional services, such as home health care, to fight escalating costs.
In 1983 the Prospective Payment System drastically changed hospital reimbursement, resulted in shorter hospital stays for patients, shifted care into the community, and placed greater responsibilities for care of relatives on family members
The federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Affordable Care Act) of 2010 requires access to health care for most Americans.
Rationale for Nursing Involvement in the Health Planning Process
Florence Nightingale and Lillian Wald pioneered health planning based on an assessment of the health needs of the communities they served
Both the American Nurses Association (ANA) (2007) and the American Public Health Association (APHA) (1996) state that the primary responsibility of community/public health nurses is to the community or population as a whole and that nurses must acknowledge the need for comprehensive health planning to implement this responsibility.
Nurses spend a greater amount of time in direct contact with their clients than do any other health care professionals.
Nursing Role in Program Planning
Planning for change at the community level is more complex than at the individual level.
Components to the client system have been increased, and more people and more complex organizations are involved.
Baccalaureate-prepared community/public nurses are expected to apply the nursing process with subpopulations or aggregates with limited supervision (American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 1986; ANA, 2007)
Planning for community change
To plan and implement programs at a commu ...
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1. Chapter 16 Community Diagnosis, Planning, and Intervention
Sergio Osegueda Acuna MSN-FNP-BC
MRC
Nursing Process with communities
Population-focused health planning
Health planning is 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.
To date, you have been responsible primarily for developing a
plan of care for the individual client.
History of U.S. Health Planning
The history of health planning in the United States has
alternated between the federal and state governments.
Before the 1960s, health planning occurred primarily at the
state level.
In the 1960s, health planning became a federal effort.
In 1966, the Comprehensive Health Planning and Public Health
Service Amendment was passed to enable states and local
communities to plan for better health resources.
In the 1980s, President Reagan aimed to reduce both the size of
the federal government and the influence the federal
government had on states. His administration eliminated the
federal budget and planning requirements while encouraging
states to make their own planning decisions.
2. History of U.S. Health Planning
In 1980, the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act encouraged the
use of noninstitutional services, such as home health care, to
fight escalating costs.
In 1983 the Prospective Payment System drastically changed
hospital reimbursement, resulted in shorter hospital stays for
patients, shifted care into the community, and placed greater
responsibilities for care of relatives on family members
The federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
(Affordable Care Act) of 2010 requires access to health care for
most Americans.
Rationale for Nursing Involvement in the Health Planning
Process
Florence Nightingale and Lillian Wald pioneered health
planning based on an assessment of the health needs of the
communities they served
Both the American Nurses Association (ANA) (2007) and the
American Public Health Association (APHA) (1996) state that
the primary responsibility of community/public health nurses is
to the community or population as a whole and that nurses must
acknowledge the need for comprehensive health planning to
implement this responsibility.
Nurses spend a greater amount of time in direct contact with
their clients than do any other health care professionals.
Nursing Role in Program Planning
Planning for change at the community level is more complex
than at the individual level.
Components to the client system have been increased, and more
people and more complex organizations are involved.
Baccalaureate-prepared community/public nurses are expected
3. to apply the nursing process with subpopulations or aggregates
with limited supervision (American Association of Colleges of
Nursing, 1986; ANA, 2007)
Planning for community change
To plan and implement programs at a community level
effectively, the community/public health nurse must understand
how the community works, how it is organized, who its key
leaders are, how the community has approached similar
problems, and how other programs have been introduced in the
past.
The health care professional who is facilitating the community
organization process with regard to a specific health need or
problem must work with the community members.
Community Organization Models
Rothman (1978, 2008) identifies three community organization
models designed to facilitate change in a community:
community development (now called empowerment), social
planning, and social action.
Social planning was the model most used by community health
nurses and other public health care practitioners between the
1970s and the early 1990s.
Community organization approaches used by Lillian Wald and
others during the nineteenth century, as well as during the
1960s, are reemerging as models for community empowerment.
Models
Community empowerment model is an approach designed to
create conditions of economic and social progress for the whole
community and involves the community in active participation.
Social planning approach emphasizes a process of rational,
4. deliberate problem solving to bring about controlled change for
social problems. This method is an expert approach in which
knowledgeable people (experts) take responsibility for solving
problems.
Social action approach is a process in which a direct, often
confrontational, action mode seeks redistribution of power,
resources, or decision making in the community or a change in
the basic policies of formal organizations, or both.
Change Theory
Each of the community organization models involves change.
Change can be threatening and stressful or it can be exciting
and rewarding.
Understanding some theory about planned change will provide a
guide to use in the planning process
Lewin (cited in Dever, 1991) describes change as being a three-
stage process: unfreezing, moving, and refreezing.
Steps of program planning
Assessment
Diagnosis
Validation
Prioritization of needs
Identification of the target population
Identification of the planning group
Establishment of the program goal
8.Identification of possible solutions
9.Matching solutions with at-risk aggregates
10.Identification of resources
11.Selection of the best intervention strategy
12.Delineation of expected outcomes
13.Delineation of the intervention work plan
14.Planning for program evaluation
5. Analysis of Data
A systematic analysis of the data collected is necessary to
identify the problems, needs, strengths, and trends in the
community.
Categorizing the data first is always helpful to identify the
inferences that are descriptive of actual or potential health
problems.
In addition to illustrating the community's strengths and
weaknesses, an analysis will provide information about
demographic and personal characteristics, which are important
to consider when planning and implementing health programs.
Data Gaps:Assessment sometimes reveals areas in which all the
information is not available. This lack of information is called a
data gap.
Diagnosis
After analyzing the data, the next step is to make a definitive
statement (diagnosis) identifying what the problem is or the
needs are. Nursing diagnoses for communities may be
formulated regarding the following issues:
Inaccessible and unavailable services
Mortality and morbidity rates
Communicable disease rates
Specific populations at risk for physical or emotional problems
Health-promotion needs for specific populations
Community dysfunction
Environmental hazards
Diagnoses
Newer NANDA diagnoses may also apply to communities;
examples include the diagnoses impaired home maintenance and
6. impaired social interaction.
Other classification systems have been developed in an attempt
to address the community. One example is the Omaha System,
written by community/public health nurses for
community/public health nursing practice (Martin, 2005). The
system was designed by the Omaha Visiting Nurse Association
and has been used in home care, public health, and school
health practice settings, among others.
Because of the multiple nursing diagnostic and classification
systems, the NNN Alliance has formed to develop a consistent
classification system. The NNN Alliance is a collaboration of
NANDA and the Center for Nursing Classification and Clinical
Effectiveness (CNC).
Validation
Validating data and nursing diagnoses with the community is
important. Do community members really see this as a problem?
If so, do they desire a solution? Have they adjusted to the
problem and therefore may be resistant to change?
Many programs have failed because the professionals planned
care based on their own values and perceptions of the problem
and did not validate clients' perceptions of the problem and
their desire for change.
Prioritization of Needs
The APHA (1961) identified the first five of the following six
factors to consider when determining priority of health needs at
the community level:
Degree of community concern
Extent of existing resources for dealing with the problem (e.g.,
time, money, equipment, supplies, facilities, human resources)
Solubility of the problem
7. Need for special education or training measures
Extent of additional resources and policies needed
Degree to which community/public health nursing can
contribute to the planning process
Identification of the Target Population
Target population: the identified group or aggregate in which
change is desired as the result of a program or intervention.
Intervention can also target one segment of the population. For
example, city X has a high rate of gonorrhea.
Can the target population and the community ever be one and
the same? Even though they are listed separately in the
previously mentioned examples, the community and the target
population may be one and the same.
Establishment of the Program Goal
The program goal is a comprehensive statement of intent or
purpose. A difference exists between the program goal and the
desired outcomes (objectives). The goal is stated in general
terms and gives no indication of possible means of achieving
the desirable outcome (McKenzie et al., 2009).
Objectives are stated in terms of a specific outcome that
contributes in some way to the achievement of the goal.
The following are two examples of program goals:
To improve health knowledge regarding HIV/AIDS
To decrease infant mortality rate
Identification of Resources
Discussing the possible solutions in relation to the identified
resources is an important part of planning.
The nurse should identify the resources within the community,
as well as outside the community, that can be used to help solve
the problem.
8. These sources include both human and nonhuman resources.
Human resources can provide expertise and people.
Nonhuman resources include funding, facilities, supplies, and
equipment
Selection of the Best Intervention Strategy
The nurse should select the best strategy for the population
within the context of resources and time available.
A problem can almost always be solved in more than one way.
The key in this step of the planning process is selecting the best
strategy for the population within the context of available
resources.
The best intervention strategies are culturally appropriate and
personalized to the preferences of the target population.
Work Plan
A good plan will have the following questions answered before
any intervention:
WHAT actions are to be done?
HOW are the actions to be accomplished?
WHAT resources (equipment, space, money) are needed?
WHO is responsible for the accomplishment of each action?
WHEN will each action occur?
HOW MUCH TIME will be required to accomplish the action?
WHERE will the actions take place? This question includes
obtaining the place and determining how much space is needed.
Planning for Program Evaluation
Although evaluation is the last step of the nursing process,
evaluation planning should begin as soon as goals are
established.
All too often, evaluation is not even considered until the end.
However, plans must also be made for evaluation.
9. Evaluation is needed throughout the program to measure
progress, as well as at the end to measure the overall value,
adequacy, efficiency, outcomes, and effectiveness.
Evaluation is a continuous feedback process that provides the
stimulus for changes in the system.
Tools Used to Present and Monitor Program Progress
Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)
PERT involves the following three steps
1.Identifying specific program activities
2.Identifying resources to accomplish these activities
3.Determining the sequence of activities for accomplishment
Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System (PPBS)
The three components of the PPBS are as follows:
1.Planning: formulation of objectives and identification of
alternatives and methods for accomplishing the objectives
2.Programming: delineation of resources for each identified
alternative
3.Budgeting: assignment of dollar values to the resources
required for the program implementation
Although designed by the U.S. Department of Defense to plan
broad-scale programs, the PPBS can be used as a framework to
plan programs for smaller organizations and population groups.
Implementation
Implementation is the action portion of the plan; in other words,
the plan states what will occur in the implementation.
Mobilizing people and resources to activate the plan of action is
a challenging task for the community/public health nurse.
10. The role of the nurse during implementation varies based on the
type of program, the community, and the community
organization methods used.
Throughout the implementation phase, the nurse continues to
collaborate, coordinate, and consult with others.
Implementation results in change that can be stressful and
threatening. Resistance to change is natural and inevitable,
because every system attempts to maintain dynamic equilibrium.
Types of Interventions
Health education programs
Screening programs
Establishing services
Policy setting and implementation
Increasing community self-help and competence
Increasing power among disenfranchised individuals
Strategies for Implementing Programs
Single Action In the single-action approach, programs are
implemented one time for a specific purpose.
Phasing Phasing in programs over a period is sometimes
necessary or advantageous.
Collaboration and Networks Collaborative efforts between
disciplines and agencies can be effective and efficient when
planning care at the community level. A partnership between
agencies and personnel results in better use of resources and
often a much stronger program.
Coalitions A coalition is a temporary union for a common
purpose.