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Title: Disaster Preparedness in a FaithBased Community: Initial Assessment and Intervention


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Disaster Preparedness in a Faith-Based Community
Initial Assessment and Intervention
  • Pamela J. Frable ND, RN
  • Sharon B. Canclini RN, BSN, MS, FCN

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Presentation 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.

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  • 1. Describe the role of community organizing in
    helping faith-based communities address disaster
    preparedness.

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The 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

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Goals
  • 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

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Organizing 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

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  • 2. Discuss a community-campus partnership as a
    strategy for increasing awareness about disaster
    preparedness among community members and nursing
    students.

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The SeminarService-Learning Begins
  • Student
  • Community
  • Faculty

Maslows Hierarchy of Needs
Actualization
Esteem
Belonging
Safety
Physiologic needs
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The Intervention A Poster Presentation
  • Three most frequently requested topics
  • Cost effective intervention
  • Easily managed by the community
  • Portable, reusable, attractive and duplicated

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The Poster Presentation
  • Unique Sunday
  • Location High traffic areas
  • All churches in the faith-based community
  • Pilot study data at Rush Creek Christian Church

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Community 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

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Evaluation Poster Intervention (N79)
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Community 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

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Student 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

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Student 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

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Evaluation
  • Did this intervention meet the course objectives?
  • The student objectives?
  • The community objectives?
  • Are these faith-based communities better prepared
    for disasters?

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  • 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.

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Recommendations
  • 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

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What 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)

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  • Alone we can do so little together we can do so
    much.
  • Helen Keller

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Key Terms

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Public (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)

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Service-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 )

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Faith 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.)

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Community 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 )

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Referral 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 )

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  • Acknowledgments

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Texas Christian University BSN Students
  • Keely Bridgewater
  • Ambur Chadderdon
  • Allison Liu
  • Rhoni Lochridge
  • Tanya Ramirez
  • Jessica Reitz
  • Jennifer Schultz
  • Rachel Wheatley
  • Swemar Win

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Faith Communities
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For 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
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