Community health clinical objectives

First, what are your thoughts?

Tell us what you have in mind and we can help refine it, but what you're doing now is asking that we do your homework for you, which is not to your benefit.

Very interesting! A clinical at a blood drive! We never did anything past blood pressure checks when I did community clinicals. How many people do they generally try to accept as donors on any given drive? Whatever the amount, I'm sure it's never enough because people generally just have a fear of contracting HIV, and the mere mention of blood sends folks running for the hills, when the only thing they really need to worry about is passing out afterwards. It's so sad that no matter how many times you tell them that they cannot contract HIV by donating blood, that just never seem to understand that fact.

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Some things that I came up with are:

Collaborate with clients, significant support persons and members of the health care team.

Demonstrate individual professionalism through personal behaviors and appearance.

Employ analytical reasoning and critical thinking skills when providing care to individuals in the community setting.

But they're no exactly measurable, and I'm not sure how well they fit into my clinical setting

I don't think any of these will work. Have you had to develop care plans? These folks donating blood will need a plan of care as well. What would you expect YOUR experience to be like, should you find yourself as a donor? Think of it like that. You would first need to know what is expected....what process of donation entails. Then you can figure out what you, as the nurse, would need to do for the patient and how many times you hope to have that particular outcome after the donation process is concluded.

Are you already a RN (in an RN-BSN program)? If not you can't have RN in your username as it's against (as well as a legally protected name).

By the end of my community clinical, I will have a better knowledge as to why some patients are not a candidate for donation.

Suggest you know the basics about this before entering the placement. Maybe give some thought to the 'excluding men who have sex with other men controversy', what are the blood banks stance on regional, state and national levels on this matter? Is it science based? Is it based on stereotypes? If based on stereotypes is that harmful to marginalized communities? Does the practice reflect social justice? Focus on applying the community health concepts and competencies.

Very interesting! A clinical at a blood drive! We never did anything past blood pressure checks when I did community clinicals. How many people do they generally try to accept as donors on any given drive? Whatever the amount, I'm sure it's never enough because people generally just have a fear of contracting HIV, and the mere mention of blood sends folks running for the hills, when the only thing they really need to worry about is passing out afterwards. It's so sad that no matter how many times you tell them that they cannot contract HIV by donating blood, that just never seem to understand that fact.

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Example: Perhaps you would be able to identify just how much evidence-based education and effort is required by the nurse, (i.e., the level of difficulty), before an average resident of the community is convinced that it is safe to be a blood donor.

...just an example without really knowing what you're looking for.

The decision to donate blood is not mainly dependent on how much education the donor has about the donation process and the need for donations. If adequate knowledge about the donation process is the main facilitator to increased donations, what is stopping professionals such as health care providers, EMTs, police and other first responders from being regular blood donors? They are all knowledgeable about the process and the need, but if you check with other nurses and nursing students in your area, you probably will find those that are regular donors are in the minority.

Fligth_RN, are you a donor? If not, consider donating before you do your placement, it is good to have experience from a donors perspective about the sensitive nature of the screening questionnaire and the donation experience.