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In 4 pages, this paper discusses how the terms community and aggregate often are used interchangeably, and includes a discussion of whether a group constitutes a community or an aggregate illustrating that such use is not incorrect. Designing or evaluating nursing intervention efforts requires greater precision, however. The senior citizens at The Erie Center of Health and Aging form an appropriate aggregate within the local community of all senior citizens, but care for cancer or stroke patients can be much different than care or heart patients. These all form appropriate and legitimate aggregates of the larger population as well. All these patients share commonalities in the care that they need, but beneficial interventions also can greatly vary among these subgroups. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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4 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSnursCommAggr.rtf
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of change, and that health care is changing is a fact as a work in progress. Doerr, et al. (1998) summarizes implications of this change for nursing in saying
that "One certainty for nursing ... is that nurses of the 21st century will be called upon to deliver aggregate-based care" (p. 214).
Doerr, et al. (1998) stop just short of placing a rigid line between practice specialty, with individual and family care on one side of the line, community care on the
other. The purpose here is to define the concepts of community and aggregate, and select a specific aggregate on which to focus in the coming weeks.
Definitions Community In 1989, Maria Salmon challenged "nurse educators to be clear as to whether they are preparing
community-focused nurses or public health practitioners" (Doerr, et al., 1998; p. 214). In 1982, the American Public Health Association "took the position that identification of subgroups, or aggregates, of
the population ... is the most effective approach for designing appropriate interventions" (Doerr, et al., 1998; p. 214). The community can be defined
by any number of characteristics used for grouping individuals. These characteristics can include geography, relationships, cultural bonds, economic condition and religious beliefs (Casente, 2002). Many communities are created
by a number of people with similar views. The citizens of any town reside in that town by choice - even if the choice has been an unconscious one
not to move away from family ties. Other communities result from facts of biology. As example, the Asian-Pacific community in the US does not include Caucasians or African-Americans,
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