Windshield Survey and Grading Rubric
Community health nurses often perform community Windshield Surveys by driving or
walking through an area and making organized observations. The nurse can gain an
understanding of the environment, layout, including geographic features and the location
of agencies, services, businesses, and industries, and can locate possible areas of
environmental concern through “sight, sense, and sound.” After you make this
observation, take a deep dive into the hard facts describing your community.
1. Chapter 6 in your Neis & McEwen textbook covers this process in detail. Please
use this chapter as a guide for your project. It might be helpful to reread the
chapter or refer back to particular sections as your develop your project. Box 6-2,
is a great guide to ensure you are looking at the community from a comprehensive
approach and Table 6.1 breaks down all community parameters for you.
2. Table 6-1 will help you break your assessment down into specific parameters of
the community through your needs assessment.
3. When you are creating your community goals, remember to keep them specific
and measurable. (See figure 6-2 for a guide).
4. Please remember this is a Power Point Presentation and not a paper.
5. This assignment will be submitted again in your Portfolio 2 class. You are
expected to make the recommended changes before submitting in Portfolio 2.
6. If you are taking this course concurrently with Portfolio 2, it is recommended that
you complete the project timely so that you have adequate time to make changes
before submitting in Portfolio 2 and your graduation is not delayed.
Content Requirements & Rubric
Survey is complete, thoughtful, and engaging.
Survey guide was utilized (Box 6-2).
Use of parameters.
Overview slide required to introduce content.
I recommend that you create a slide for each subsystem
so that you don’t leave out any pertinent information.
Reference Slide.
30
Community problems identified and ranked in order of
concern.
Community assessment parameter use is evident.
20
Top two (2) problems are developed into a smart goal/
Community health diagnosis.
20
Intervention activities for each goal. 15
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Make sure they are realistic and obtainable.
o Realistic & obtainable means something “you”
could potentially impact.
(Don’t reinvent the wheel, think about data that is already being collected)
Evaluation methods (even if proposed) for your
goals/interventions.
10
Top three (3) take-away’s or insights from this project. 5
Additionally, each section will be subject to point deduction
for:
Use of APA format and appropriate use of
references/citations throughout.
References should be < 5 years old unless historical
data being used.
Use of graphics and professional presentation.
Remember to imagine that you are the presenter as well as being the person
in the back of the room. Is it easy to follow and pleasing to the eye?