GCU Geopolitical and Phenomenological Factors Discussion

Discuss how geopolitical and phenomenological place influence the context of a population or community assessment and intervention. Describe how the nursing process is utilized to assist in identifying health issues (local or global in nature) and in creating an appropriate intervention, including screenings, referrals, resources and spiritual support for the community or population. Describe how community resources can aid in the implementation process of an intervention. How could the Christian worldview influence one’s perspective of human value and dignity in an intervention?

Example 1 jarrett:

When assessing the overall public health of a community, it is very important to include a few key factors. Knowing about geopolitical and phenomenological factors specific to the community being assessed is an essential part of collecting data (Green, 2018). For instance, in the communities living on Native American Reservations, the governance and systems are mostly self-contained, but do to many of the reservations being in rural areas where access to High- Quality Healthcare is rare, phenomenological factors such as lack of sufficient screenings and health education, historically, have led to a higher prevalence of drug and alcohol abuse in the communities. The nursing process in use would guide the public health nurse to first collect data from the communities in order to find out where health disparities may lay. After data collection through use of Public Health Surveillance (Green, 2018), it is important to identify local agencies and resources in order assess the ability to appropriately care for the community members that are affected.

When the nurse has an adequate accounting of resources and agencies available, it is now possible to identify the gaps in care and plan interventions to fill those gaps. Initiating mental health screenings and dependency risk assessments, would be a great starting point in a community affected like a Reservation. In this setting it would also be beneficial to include Spiritual leaders in implementing care and facilitating community involvement.

The Christian Worldview can influence how how nurses interact with the community through a spiritual lens. Inclusivity without regard to another human beings religious leanings is in accordance with the view that we are all God’s children made in his image. The nurse should practice culturally-sensitive care and mold the interventions to those spiritual needs in the community being served. Community health through the Christian Worldview is akin to Christ leading by humility and a devotion to God and others (Paltzer, 2018).

Reference:

Green, S.Z. (2018). Populations as Client. Community and Public Health: The Future of Health Care. Grand Canyon University (Ed). https://lc.gcumedia.com/nrs427vn/community-and-public-health-the-future-of-health-care/v1.1/#/home

Paltzer, J. (2018). Training a Christian public health workforce: A qualitative study of Christian public health training programs. Christian Journal for Global Health, 5(3), 12–22. https://doi-org.lopes.idm.oclc.org/10.15566/cjgh.v5i3.228

Example 2 Carmille

Geopolitical and phenomenological factors have huge influences on the context of a population. According to Green, geopolitical factors can refer to environmental conditions, such as the weather and vegetation, or more man made influences, such as what ZIP code a person lives in (Green, 2018). One example why environmental factors are important is how different the weather is in many places. It is important for a nurse to educate on the signs of frostbite in areas that have snow, but not in places where it is sunny year round. What ZIP code a person lives in can also affect what resources and care they are allowed to access. Phenomenological places group people in a more abstract way, such as by culture and spiritual beliefs (Green, 2018). These factors also influence how we may need to alter our approach to treating these communities.

Orlando’s Nursing Process describes how we can use “assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation” as a structured way to deliver care for both the individual and communities (Green, 2018). For example, a community health nurse might try to address blood pressure problems in her community. First, she can assess how many people have high blood pressure in her community, and how many people are treating it. Next, she can plan and implement blood pressure education and screenings. Lastly, she can evaluate whether her screening and education worked by seeing if more people are now treating their blood pressure. The nurse can use community resources such as event centers and churches in order to spread their message more. The nurse can provide blood pressure screenings to places community members regularly go to, instead of making them go somewhere different like a clinic or hospital.

Having a Christian worldview is helpful to providing care, because it grounds us and reminds us that every human has dignity and equal value, regardless of how different they are from us. According to Raines, using Christian ethics allows us to reach common ground with everyone, including non Christians (2022). One of the most important principles Christians have is imago dei, which is the principle that we are made in God’s image. With this in mind, we should make sure to give care to others as we would to God.

References

Green, S. (2018). Community & Public Health: The Future of Health Care. Grand Canyon University. https://lc.gcumedia.com/nrs427vn/community-and-public-health-the-future-of-health-care/v1.1/#/chapter/1

Raines, J. C. (2022). One-anothering: A Christian approach to professional ethics. Social Work & Christianity, 49(2), 120–134. https://doi-org.lopes.idm.oclc.org/10.34043/swc.v4…

Example 3 mercy

Phenomenological place is a relational or psychological location such as a church, golf club, veteran group, animal shelter group or a library. When a nurse visits phenomenological places, they are able to collect subjective and objective data from the community member. Such data could be based on history, culture, economics, education, spiritual beliefs, values, common characteristics or similar goals. Geopolitical place consists of community boundaries, transportation infrastructure, geographic features, climate, vegetation, animals and human-made homes and facilities. Geopolitical places helps in determining the population and the location for assessment that tell the quantity and quality of life of a community (Green, 2018).

Nursing process in community health, starts with community assessment, nurse goes into community to gather primary and secondary information from geopolitical or phenomenological place for health needs and risks identification. Nursing diagnoses are based on the community findings like community strength, assets and resources for instance adequate housing or weakness, challenges, limitation and threats in the community for instance high rate of obesity observed among the young adults. Planning interventions: community health nursing interventions focuses on prevention of illness with health promotion interventions. Health needs and risks identified during assessments aids in planning for prevention interventions. Two public health frameworks prevention are used. Traditional preventive framework consists of primary prevention intervention such as use of immunization for disease occurrence prevention. Secondary: involves screening such as routine mammograms, routine colonoscopies or pap-smear or tertiary prevention interventions: reduces severity of disease and long term complications. A second framework is the continuum of care prevention model includes: universal, selected and indicated prevention interventions (Wisconsin Technical College Sytem, 2023). Implementation: community health nurse collaborate with individuals, community organizations, health facilities and local governments for successful implementation of community health initiatives. Evaluation: Community health nurses the established goals to determine if goals were achieved by asking questions such as: what additional changes are needed to improve the health of the community (Wisconsin Technical College Sytem, 2023). Demonstrating love and compassion for the community as Christ when implementing intervention promotes human value and dignity.

References:

Green, S.Z. (2018). Populations as Client. Community and Public Health: The Future of Health Care. Grand Canyon University (Ed). https://lc.gcumedia.com/nrs427vn/community-and-public-health-the-future-of-health-care/v1.1/#/home

Wisconsin Technical College Sytem. (2023). Applying the nursing process to community health.https://wtcs.pressbooks.pub/nursingmhcc/chapter/16…