Nurses as Change Agents in the Community
In the chapter, “How Community-Based Organizations Are Addressing Nursing’s Role in Transforming Health Care,” the authors describe the community as the focus of advocacy action for change. They list a series of questions that help community teams develop organizing principles to guide their interventions, and the aim is to attack social determinants of health to make community change. Suppose a community team identifies lack of access to exercise modalities as a public health issue. If the team were to determine that pedestrian walkways need to be constructed:
- Discuss at least two factors that would facilitate the development of the walkways.
- Discuss at least two factors that would hinder the development of the walkways.
Include in your discussions ways that the team might work to overcome those hindrances.
SOLUTION
Hello professor and class, Nurses have to constantly face issues that either push the healthcare sector forward or hinder them from practicing to their full potential. An example is the lack of vital infrastructure in the community such as exercise modalities cited in this discussion post. Pathways are vital in enabling people to engage in light physical activities such as walking or jogging in a bid to maintain a healthy mass. In this case, one factor that could facilitate the construction of the walkways is………………………………$5
