Community Analysis in Community Health Nursing Practice: The GENESIS Model
- 1 December 1992
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Public Health Nursing
- Vol. 9 (4) , 223-227
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1525-1446.1992.tb00105.x
Abstract
A community-analysis strategy, GENESIS (general ethnographic and nursing evaluation studies in the state), is a comprehensive, holistic portrait of communities obtained through secondary analysis of existing data and qualitative methods. The GENESIS method is delineated and examples of studies are presented. To explicate the method and illustrate the findings, an aggregate-focused GENESIS study and two studies in which entire communities were the targets are compared and contrasted. Other defining concepts of nursing, such as caring and health, are redefined or explicated to make them congruent with the recognition that for community health nurses, the community is the client.Keywords
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