Title: Disaster Preparedness in a FaithBased Community: Initial Assessment and Intervention
1Disaster Preparedness in a Faith-Based Community
Initial Assessment and Intervention
- Pamela J. Frable ND, RN
- Sharon B. Canclini RN, BSN, MS, FCN
2Presentation Objectives
- Describe the role of community organizing in
helping faith-based communities address disaster
preparedness. - Discuss a community-campus partnership as a
strategy for increasing awareness about disaster
preparedness among community members and nursing
students. - Explain how the public health nursing
intervention referral and follow-up can assist
faith-based communities meet their own needs and
address their interest in helping their
geographic communities.
3- 1. Describe the role of community organizing in
helping faith-based communities address disaster
preparedness.
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5The community was ready to change
- Increased interest in issues
- Urgency of issue
- General level of community awareness
- Attitudes of community opinion leaders
- Communitys previous history and response to
change. - Minnesota Department of Public Health, 2001,
http//www.health.state.mn.us/divs/cfh/ophp/resour
ces/docs/phinterventions_manual2001.pdf
6Goals
- As faith community nurse, help faith communities
- Develop disaster management strategies that are
effective, efficient, maintain safety of faith
communities and their members, and consistent
with faith communities values and missions - Become aware of larger disaster response system
in local geographic area
- As faculty member
- Develop meaningful clinical experience that would
benefit and engage nursing students and community - Assist faculty colleague to collect research data
7Organizing the Faith-Based Community
- Develop a Seminar about Disasters
- Same baseline information
- Opportunity to bring community members together
- Opportunity for data collection
- Opportunity for campus and community partners to
meet
8- 2. Discuss a community-campus partnership as a
strategy for increasing awareness about disaster
preparedness among community members and nursing
students.
9The SeminarService-Learning Begins
- Student
- Community
- Faculty
Maslows Hierarchy of Needs
Actualization
Esteem
Belonging
Safety
Physiologic needs
10The Intervention A Poster Presentation
- Three most frequently requested topics
- Cost effective intervention
- Easily managed by the community
- Portable, reusable, attractive and duplicated
11The Poster Presentation
- Unique Sunday
- Location High traffic areas
- All churches in the faith-based community
- Pilot study data at Rush Creek Christian Church
12Community Results Intended
- Opportunities for intervention
- Posters received positive responses from viewers
- Viewers visited with students to ask questions
and seek advice on how to prepare for disasters
- Viewers took handouts home to post for reminders
- Research tool piloted at Rush Creek Christian
Church
13Evaluation Poster Intervention (N79)
14Community Results Unintended
- Collegial relationships built among faith- based
community members - Parochial schools work as team
- RCCC invites all in the faith community to
participate in a major health fair at no cost - Relationship developed between TCU and Catholic
Community - Relationships developed among referral agency,
TCU and the faith community
15Student Results Intended
- Public health nursing course objectives met
Examples - Collaborate with clients, health team members and
community agencies - Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate nursing
interventions appropriate for diverse clients,
cultures, values and settings - Use effective communication skills and advocate
for individuals, families, and/or groups - Utilize research findings in meeting community
needs - Advocate for the role of the professional nurse
as a member of interdisciplinary health care
teams
16Student Results Unintended
- Satisfaction with real time learning
- Personal preparedness improved
- Reported success with public health
intervention - Positive first experience with taking idea from
concept to reality
17Evaluation
- Did this intervention meet the course objectives?
- The student objectives?
- The community objectives?
- Are these faith-based communities better prepared
for disasters?
18- 3. Explain how the public health nursing
intervention referral and follow-up can assist
faith-based communities meet their own needs and
address their interest in helping their
geographic communities.
19Recommendations
- Improve and sustain disaster preparation in the
faith-based community - Nurture the community-campus partnership
- Maintain face time in the communities
- Reassure the communities with continuity of
programming, interventions and faculty
20What is next for this community?
- Build on the concept of self preparation
- Service-learning opportunities to help the
faith-based communities identify strategies for
communication among themselves - Empower community to develop effective emergency
plans - Link the self-prepared community with larger
disaster management organizations (ARC,
municipalities, VOAD)
21 - Alone we can do so little together we can do so
much. - Helen Keller
22Key Terms
23Public (community) health nursing
- Population-focused, community-centered nursing.
. . . Practice of promoting and protecting the
health of populations and using knowledge from
nursing, social, and public health sciences.
(APHA, 1996)
24Service-learning
- Service-learning is a structured learning
experience that combines community service with
preparation and reflection. Students engaged in
service-learning provide community service in
response to community-identified concerns and
learn about the context in which service is
provided, the connection between their service
and their academic coursework, and their roles as
citizens. - (Seifer, 1998, http//depts.washington.edu/ccph/se
rvicelearningres.html )
25Faith community nursing (FCN)
- specialized practice of nursing that focuses on
the intentional care of the spirit as part of the
(nursing) process. - The goal of FCN is the protection, promotion,
optimization of health and abilities, prevention
of illness and injury, and responding to
suffering in the context of the values, beliefs,
practices of a faith community such as church,
congregation, parish, synagogue, temples or
mosque. - (Health Ministries Association ANA, 2005, p. 1.)
26Community organizing
- Helps community groups identify common problems
or goals, mobilize resources, and develop and
implement strategies for reaching the goals they
collectively have set. - (Minkler, 1997, in Minnesota Department of Public
Health, 2001, http//www.health.state.mn.us/divs/c
fh/ophp/resources/docs/phinterventions_manual2001.
pdf )
27Referral and follow-up
- Assists individuals, families, groups,
organizations, and communities to utilize
necessary resources to prevent or resolve
problems or concerns. Effective referral demands
effective follow-up. - (Minnesota Department of Public Health, 2001,
http//www.health.state.mn.us/divs/cfh/ophp/resour
ces/docs/phinterventions_manual2001.pdf )
28 29 Texas Christian University BSN Students
- Keely Bridgewater
- Ambur Chadderdon
- Allison Liu
- Rhoni Lochridge
- Tanya Ramirez
- Jessica Reitz
- Jennifer Schultz
- Rachel Wheatley
- Swemar Win
30 Faith Communities
31For more information
- Sharon B. Canclini RN, BSN, MS, FNC Lecturer
- 817-257-6745
- S.canclini_at_tcu.edu
- Pamela Jean Frable ND, RN Associate Professor
- 817-257-5840
- P.frable_at_tcu.edu
- LaVonne Adams PhD, RN, CCRN Assistant Professor
- 817-257-6805
- L.adams2_at_tcu.edu
- Harris College of Nursing and Health Sciences
- Texas Christian University
- Fort Worth, Texas