Nurses use many approaches, such as windshield surveys, to identify community health risks. Inclusive practices in community-based work align with the concept of decolonization in nursing

When the community is the client, nurses address the community’s collective health instead of the acute and chronic health needs of individual clients. Community health nurses focus on promoting health, reducing risk, ameliorating disparities, and increasing equity.

community — a group of people with at least one characteristic in common. windshield survey — a method of direct observation in which the nurse views the community or neighborhood while driving around and looking through the windows of the vehicle. decolonization — processes that systematically dismantle colonial ideologies of superiority, thought, approaches, and privilege. dimensions of community health — the people (also known as status), structures, and processes that may be assessed and measured to determine the care delivery and health outcomes of a community.