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1. Describe the role of community organizing in helping faith-based communities address disaster preparedness.
2. Discuss a community-campus partnership as a strategy for increasing awareness about disaster preparedness among community members and nursing students.
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.

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

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(graphic diagram titled "Disaster Preparedness in a Faith-Based Community")

• Increased interest in issues
• Urgency of issue
• General level of community awareness
• Attitudes of community opinion leaders
• Community's previous history and response to change.
  • Minnesota Department of Public Health, 2001,
    http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/cfh/ophp/resources/docs/
    phinterventions_manual2001.pdf

•   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

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

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

• Student
• Community
• Faculty

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• Three most frequently requested topics
• Cost effective intervention
• Easily managed by the community
• Portable, reusable, attractive and duplicated

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• 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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• 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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	Not	Somewhat	Neutral	Good	Very Good
1. How helpful/educational was the poster presentation?	0	0	0	43.0%	57.0%
2. How convenient was the poster presentation?	0	1	1	27.8%	69.6%
3. The poster session after church was appropriate.	0	0	0	50.6%	49.4%
4. How prepared do you feel you are for a disaster?	19.0%	36.7%	12.7%	21.5%	10.1%
5. I would like to learn more about disaster preparation.	Yes – 74.7%			No – 25.3%

• 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

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

• Satisfaction with "real time" learning
• Personal preparedness improved
• Reported success with "public health intervention"
• Positive first experience with taking idea from concept to reality

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

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.

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

• 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)

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
- Helen Keller

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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)

• "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/servicelearningres.html)

• "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.)

• "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/cfh/ophp/resources/
    docs/phinterventions_manual2001.pdf

• "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/resources/
    docs/phinterventions_manual2001.pdf

Keely Bridgewater
Ambur Chadderdon
Allison Liu
Rhoni Lochridge
Tanya Ramirez
Jessica Reitz
Jennifer Schultz
Rachel Wheatley
Swemar Win

Rush Creek Christian Church Max Jones, Pastor
The Church on Rush Creek Brian McFadden, Youth Pastor
St. Joseph Catholic Community Bridgette Ellis, Business Manager
St. John the Apostle United Methodist Church Steve Langford, Pastor
Grace Presbyterian Church Terri Matthews, Pastor
St. Alban's Episcopal School Jennifer Reed, Assistant Head of School
Holy Rosary Catholic School Lowell Day, Principal

• Sharon B. Canclini RN, BSN, MS, FNC; Lecturer
  • 817-257-6745
  • S.canclini@tcu.edu
• Pamela Jean Frable ND, RN; Associate Professor
  • 817-257-5840
  • P.frable@tcu.edu
• LaVonne Adams PhD, RN, CCRN; Assistant Professor
  • 817-257-6805
  • L.adams2@tcu.edu

Harris College of Nursing and Health Sciences
Texas Christian University
Fort Worth, Texas

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