C229 Task Community Health and Population-Focused Nursing Field Experience – C229 Communi

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C229 Task Community Health and Population-Focused Nursing Field Experience – C229 Community Health and Population-Focused Nursing Field Experience – C229 Obesity in Thurston County Childr... en A. See attachment file for Community Time Log B1. The community that I performed my field project in was Thurston Count in the state of Washington. Thurston County is located on the southern end of the Puget Sound. Less than an hour drive to the east is the Cascade mountain range, which includes Mount Rainier, and to the west is the Pacific Coast. The Puget Sound Inlet is the second largest inlet in the United States, and serves as a domestic and international shipping route for commercial vessels carrying timber which is very abundant here. Thurston County receives about 56 inches of rain per year which is about 16 inches more per year above the average rainfall in the United States. There are also about 65 more days of rain each year than the United States average (ESD, 2016). The two major colleges here are the Evergreen State College and Saint Martins University. The county seat is Olympia, which is the largest city in the county, and the state capital. Two other cities, Lacey and Tumwater, are connected to Olympia and have no visible border reference making it difficult to realize that you have left one city and entered the other. There are about 262,723 residents in Thurston County which covers an area of 774 mi² (USCB, 2017). Nearly 85% of the population is White, with about 5% being Asian, 5% Hispanic or Latino, and other races making up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . [Show More]

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