Community Diagnosis Essay

CHAPTER IINTRODUCTIONA company is a group of organisms or populations living and interacting with one another in a particular environment. People with common agenda, interest, or cause, who collaborate by sharing ideas, in bodaton, and other resources. In communty health nursing, biotic community of interests is the client who needs forward motion and preservation of the health of the population.Community diagnosis is a means of examining aggregate and social statistics in addition to the knowledge of the local situation, in order to happen the heath needs of the community. It is a tool to disclose the hidden problems that ar not visible to the community people but are being modify by them. This tool is important and has helped many communities in improving their health status.The main purpose of community health and nursing services is to improve and stimulate the health situation of the community that doesnt have access to basic health care services and to help individuals w ho need help to promote tint care for the whole community.This study will mainly benefit the people in Barangay 842, dominion VI of manilla paper. The researchers were optimistic that through this study they will be competent to assist the community in ontogenesis measures that will en qualified the local residents to identify and manage their own health related problems and be able to achieve good health.Read moreHow to write a diagnostic essay of my self.RationaleThis study aims to present the nature of the community of Barangay 842, District VI, Pandaca Manila thus aiding the nursing students to practice their knowledge and skills with discipline accuracy and in logical manner like contributing to the improvement of the condition of the locality. The community as the center of this study provides them to do their role in the field of health care as a responsible health nurse. It can produce selective information and information that can help to determine and identify needs, interest and problems of the community through joint efforts and cooperation among students and the people affected. Recognizing their needs, interest and problems of the community will enable them to picture the action needed, offer proposals, alternatives and solution and solve these problems with unity and coherence to have a better community setting. Community diagnosis provides the students exposure to the real-life situations, thus developing their decision-making skill and learn on how to deal on different people and situations in a right and ethical manner that we will encounter spot conducting this study. It also helps them develop our knowledge, skill, attitude, cooperation, and participation on improving the condition and organizing a community and learn how to deal on a chaotic situation effectively. In addition, nursing practice in the community The community diagnosis helps raise the level of health dissemination of the community. This will also help students to max imize our effectiveness and to render the potential on preventing diseases, promoting health and organize and participate on the development of health plan that will benefit the community to attain optimal health to individuals, families and communities.STATEMENT OF OBJECTIVESGENERAL OBJECTIVESAfter two hebdomads of gathering information at Barangay 842, Pandacan Manila BSN level Group 1 will be able to identify their communitys health concerns and make actions towards acquiring of health resources and services. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES1. To assess the health condition and needs of the community and identify actual health programs and resources available. 2. To identify the health conditions that requires the highest priority and needs to be addressed. 3. To plan with the barangay officials and health care personnel a program that will help result the health concerns and needs of the barangay.Scope and LimitationThe prioritization of the problems observed and stated by our group focu sed more on the gathitherd data from the families interviewed residingfrom Barangay 842. The content of the data ga in that locationd from the random sample may not be reliable enough to represent the whole community of Barangay 842. However, the study may post signification in the sense that it may be useful in determining the problems of the community.Methodology/Tools UsedThere are 110 family respondents which compromises of 496 individuals in Barangay 621 partition off 62, District VI,, Sta. Mesa, Manila for our Community Diagnosis. This family represents the people we interviewed. This vision will serve as the representation of the community. The main method we used to assess the problem of the community is survey by means of survey forms. We assess the community by asking questions through interviewing that is clear and specific that can gather exact and specific answers. In addition, we gathered data through observing to complete the data needed in the survey form. The sur vey form was adapted from the Municipal Health division and was modified by Mr. Kenneth Joe Lovely RN, faculty member College of Nursing of Universidad De Manila. We used a spot-map to locate the area for our community diagnosis.Data Gathering ProcedureThe community assessment was conducted over the entire Barangay 621 Zone 61, Sta. Mesa, Manila. Only 110 families are surveyed to represent the entire community. All the questions are restricted in the survey form that is made by the Municipal Health Department and modified by Mr. Kenneth Joe Lovely RN, faculty member College of Nursing of the Universidad De Manila. All the data gathered was accord to what the researchers see and hear. The history of the barangay is available at the barangay hall of the community.SETTING OF THE COMMUNITYDESCRIPTIONThe barangay 621 is one of the Barangay at Sta. Mesa, Manila. It has a total number of populations of six thousands quartet hundred forty. Juan Philip P. Manabat is the current Barangay Chairman. It is bounded at the CordilleraStreet.Tagalog is their medium of communication, but as we observed there are also other languages that present in the community such as Bisaya, Cebuano, Ilocano, etc. the Barangay boundaries are 590 north, 603 east, 611 west, and 630 southwestward. Approximate land area of more or less 6.5 hectares. Covering the streets of Jacinto Zamora Link and Valenzuela Street. The existing facilities in the community are * Water pumps* Half courtsThe most common means of transportation in their street are pedicabs but some of the people that live there also use motorcycles and cars. The road of the streets are fully cemented, there are also parts of the roads that are rough roads.HISTORY OF THE COMMUNITYThe Barangay 621, Zone 62, District VI of Manila was created around 1970s through the effort of their ancestors. Their Barangay Patron is Saint Labrado which is the Patron Saint of Farmers which they celebrate every 3rd week of May in commemoration of their ancestors.COMMUNITY PROFILEThe Barangay 621, Zone 62, District VI of Manila is the 2nd Barangay that can be seen when entering the Bacood Area. The best corner of this Barangay is the Bacood Park which is within the jurisdiction of this Barangay. Barangay 621 has an estimated land area of more or less than 6.5 hectares. Covering the streets of Jacinto Zamora Link and Valenzuela Street.The boundary of the community is a river at the south near the Pandacan Bridge (Zamora Bridge). The certain spots of the Barangay started from a house near the river.Consequently, the houses were mostly were wood type houses and some are concretes. A lot of lay out dogs and cats can be seen in the streets. During anytime, its an extreme hotness while as nighttime approaches, a little bitbreeze of coldness can be felt. Polluted air can be inhaled due to the cars passing by.The nearest schools in the Barangay are Regina Apostolorum Academy, Tzu Chi Great Love Campus which is near some basketball courts and near the Pandacan Bridge (Zamora Bridge). Some children go to the Bacood Elementary School which is in the other Barangay near Barangay 621.Utilization of their own resources was one of the main factors in their livelihood. Sari-sari stores are the primary livelihood in the Barangay. Others also exists such as junk shops, karinderyas, pedicabs are rented for transportation purposes. The Barangay hall is just near the houses and there are Barangay tanods in yhe community, which provides safety and security.SPOT MAP*Chapter IIThe Community and Population GroupPopulation of the Barangay6440Total Families Surveyed110 FamiliesTotal Population of Individuals Surveyed496 finish Ratio (SR)Sex Ratio= MaleX 100Female= 251 Males / 245 Females X 100= 102 Males per 100 FemalesThe Families surveyed in Old Sta. Mesa St. Brgy. 621 zone 62 accounts for 110 families in whom individuals are 496, there are 251 Males and 245 Females. Using the above formula, the computed sex ratio is 102 Mal es per 100 Females. The sex ratio of individuals who is