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UNIVERSIDAD DE MANILA

A.J. Villegas St. Mehan Garden, Ermita, Manila

College of Health and Sciences
Department of Nursing
Introduction

Traditionally, a community has been defined as a group of interacting people living in a
common location. The word is thus often used to mean a group that is organized around common
values within a shared geographical location. However, the definition has evolved and been
enlarged to mean individuals who share characteristics, regardless of their location or type
of interaction. It functions within a particular sociocultural context, which means that no two
communities are alike. The physical environment varies, and so with the peoples way of
behaving and coping. The people are different from each other, thus the dynamics in one
community differs from that of the other. It is made up of institutions and organizations linked in
a complex network having a formal and informal power structure and a communication system.
In addition, the core represents the people that make up the community.
Nursing is a profession that serves the needs to the society in the area of health.
According to Nightingale it is the act of utilizing the environment to assist the patients to
recovery. Nursing is a line work requiring academic and practical preparation. Virginia
Henderson state that nursing is to assist individuals sick or well in the performance of those
activities contributing to health or its recovery that he would perform undecided if he had the
necessary strength, will or knowledge and to do this in such as way to nap him again independent
as rapidly as possible. In American Nursing Association (ANA), it is the diagnosis and treatment
of human responses to actual and potential health problem.
Community Health Nursing is a specialized field of nursing practice. Its basic knowledge
and skills are anchored on nursing theories and important concepts from the science and public
health. The ANA define community health nursing and highlights the following important goals:
the goal of professional practice is the promotion and preservation of the health of populations;
the nature of practice is comprehensive, general and continual and not episodic; the base
knowledge comes from nursing and public health; the different levels of clientele were
individuals, families and population groups; and the practitioners recognition of the primacy of
the population as a whole.
Community Diagnosis, is also known as community assessment or situational analysis. It
is designed to collect data about the community in order to identify the different factors that may
directly or indirectly influence the health of the population, to analyze and seeks explanations for
the occurrence of health nursing diagnosis are then derived and will become the bases for
developing and implementing community health nursing interventions and strategies.
Our group during the immersion conducted the following in organizing the community
utilized the nursing process; the therapeutic interventions; critical thinking and profession
communication to provide caring services to clients in the community; established culturally
competent care for the community and its members, recognizing the economic and ethnic
characteristics of the community; and demonstrated therapeutic communication skills with the
clients with interdisciplinary members of the community team.
The researchers were assigned at Barangay 679 Zone 68 Baseco Port Area Manila in the
5th District of Manila. To the north, Port Area is bounded by the Pasig River, separating the area
from Tondo and San Nicolas areas of Manila. To the east, Bonifacio Drive separates the area
from Intramuros, the oldest historic district of Manila. To the south, the 25th Street separates the
area from Ermita, Manila. West of the Port Area is Manila Bay. Considered as a depressed
community, the entire barangay has received a wide range of external assistance from both
government and non-government agencies. In fact, it was identified as one of the beneficiaries of
the KALAHI program of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.'
The situation of the barangay has improved enormously since it was established.
However, flooding, poor sanitation and health conditions, and the low quality of basic services,
Particularly water, remain problems that affect the well-being of the most vulnerable group in the
community-the poorest children.

Rationale
This study aims to present the researchers to the nature of community of . Brgy. 649 Zone
68, District 5, Baseco Port Area Manila. Thus, aiding them to practice their knowledge and skills
with discipline, accuracy and in logical manner like contributing to the improvement of the
condition of the locality. The community, as the center of this study provides them to do their
role in the field of health care as a responsible health nurse.
It can produce data and information that can help to determine and identify needs,
interest and problems of the community through joint efforts and cooperation among the students
and people affected. Recognizing the needs, interest and problems of the community will enable
them to plan the action needed, offer proposals, alternatives and solution and solve these
problems with unity and coherence to have a better community setting.
Community organizing is a process by which communities and organizations
work together to identify common problems and objectives, acquire and mobilize
resources, and create and implement actions to achieve their goals.
In this study, students will learn the basis of facilitating community
organizing processes in health promotion and education contexts. These include research
and evaluation of community organizing processes. Community Assessment helps understand
the community better.

The Community diagnosis serves as reflection of the current status of the marginalized
community around Manila. It is an indicator on how far the health status of every Filipino
community has gone and how far it will go.

Statement of Objectives
General Objectives
After 6 days of community exposure, the researcher would able to determine and assess
the health status, the health related problems and the possible interventions needed in Barangay
649 Zone 68 District V Baseco Port Area Manila.
Specific Objectives
To identify the health status of the community

To collect data regarding the community source of health information
To give information about health care importance in the community and how the
community people will response to these interaction.

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UNIVERSIDAD DE MANILA

A.J. Villegas St. Mehan Garden, Ermita, Manila

Traditionally, a community has been defined as a group of interacting people living in a

of human responses to actual and potential health problem.

the population as a whole.

Community Diagnosis, is also known as community assessment or situational analysis. It

developing and implementing community health nursing interventions and strategies.

communication to provide caring services to clients in the community; established culturally

clients with interdisciplinary members of the community team.

the KALAHI program of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.'

community-the poorest children.

role in the field of health care as a responsible health nurse.

problems with unity and coherence to have a better community setting.

Community organizing is a process by which communities and organizations

resources, and create and implement actions to achieve their goals.

In this study, students will learn the basis of facilitating community

and evaluation of community organizing processes. Community Assessment helps understand

the community better.

community has gone and how far it will go.

649 Zone 68 District V Baseco Port Area Manila.

To identify the health status of the community

community people will response to these interaction.

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