Windshield Survey: Anxiety and Depression in Junior High Students in Deer Park Texas

Deer Park is located in Southeast Texas within the Houston-Sugar Land- Baytown
metropolitan area and is part of Harris County. The City of Deer Park is known as the birthplace
of Texas because it is near the site of the Battle of San Jacinto, where Texas won its
independence from Mexico. A replica of Dr. Patrick’s cabin located in front of the
Courts/Theatre building on Center Street. The significance of the cabin is where Dr. George
Moffitt signed the treaty after the battle. To become familiar with a community, anyone can
search the internet and get results, but walking or driving in a community can give someone, like
a nurse, a sense of what the community has to offer or what the community lacks. This type of
observation is known as a windshield survey (Washington Community College [WCC], 2018).
The purpose of this paper is to allow nurses to identify the strengths and weekness of the
community by conducting a windshield survey through Deer Park and to allow the public health
nurse to improve the community for optimal mental health of the children.

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