DAILY DIARY

November 15, 2010 (Monday)

On the first day of our duty in the area (November 15, 2010), we made a courtesy visit to
the barangay chairwoman (Elizabeth Maliwat), introduced ourselves and requested to take some
pictures with her and the barangay hall’s facilities, schedules, health workers and staffs and
observed and recorded some data that were necessary for our research work.

In return, Chairwoman Elizabeth Maliwat approved our request and told us that we are
very welcome in conducting our survey in their community.

We then took pictures of the said requests using our Leader’s Digital Camera and began
planning for the upcoming surveys.

November 22, 2010 (Monday)

On this day, our clinical instructor (Mrs. Pacheco) divided us into 2 groups, we had a
survey of road 5 , 6, and 7 , where we can select depressed members of barangay 164 .She
assigned us10 residents for each student within the vicinity introduced ,and began our
interpersonal relationship with our clients after which we had our interview using a survey sheet.
We had some difficulties because some of the household were working, bringing their children
to the school and some were busy with their household chores. It was a busy day on our part that
even we had no time to have our snack since we have to catch the time of the family members
they had passed that we had not finished our target family so we have to be back the next day.
We took more pictures of the area with the residents of the community.
November 29, 2010 (Monday)

Our clinical instructor decided to gather all the data of the previous week that we had
collected through the survey sheets for collation. She assigned Allain Tayag and Marc Xavier
Chua to tally each paper in order for us to get the sum of the surveyed materials using two whole
manila paper and a marker.

It is quite long to tally all of the data we collected. It took us almost 4hrs to sum it yet we
had finished it that very day.

December 1, 2010 (Wednesday)

During that day, collation started; we planned how to make our research work and our
leader, LEA MARI, assigned each of us to a specific chapter/s.

Our clinical instructor then gave us an idea on how to make this work the way she wanted
and helped us to construct some sentences the way it should be.

January 3-5, 2011(Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday)

Our class resumed, and we were able to finish collating. We had gotten the total
percentage of each category in the survey. We made a graph for each and we started making
analysis and interpretation. The survey shows many problems of the community like in their
personal hygiene and the cleanliness of their community. Diseases/illnesses such as
hypertension, coughs, colds, dengue, skin diseases such as ringworm were present in that
particular place.
January 11-13, 2011 (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday)

We are still working on our community care plan. We are sharing each one’s ideas for the
good of our project and continued editing while others are busy finishing their assigned tasks.

The initial data are in but it is still incomplete. It is indeed stressful but we had to do something
for us to complete our work. So our leader (Lea Mari) told us to double-the-time, finalize our work
A.S.A.P. and submit it to her in order for her to make our work complete.
 LEARNING INSIGHTS

After the field practice, we demonstrated the following skills:

1. Applied principles, theories and methods of Community Health Nursing that had been

studied and discussed in the classroom.

2. Learned to interact with various kinds of people.

3. Identified and analyzed health problems through the use of different sorts of methods

(e.g. survey, assessments, review of health records/reports of the previous years, etc.)

4. Learned to make plans regarding on the improvement of the community’s health needs.

5. Participated in the implementation of planned project in the community.

After few weeks of exposure in Barangay 164, Caloocan, the group had appreciated more about

life in the community where people live in places without adequate lighting, food, sanitation, etc.

In the process of the said experience, the mentioned objectives of the group are partially met.

And to further satisfy the effectiveness of the identified projects and programs that were started

in the community, participation and full cooperation of the residences are the key concepts that

made it a success.