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NR 443 Week 4 Milestone 2, Caring for People, Assessment and Diagnosis

A community health nurse must be effective in targeting the population as a whole. The nurse will determine the needs for the community by using the data compiled from a windshield survey. As stated in the text, “A population focus also involves a scientific approach to community health nursing: an assessment of the community or population is necessary and basic to planning, intervention, and evaluation for the individual, family, aggregate, and population levels” (Nies & McEwen, 2011). The purpose of this paper is to establish a priority health problem of the community of Harlingen. Based on demographic, epidemiological data and a windshield survey of the area………