Author Question: When the community collaborates in a plan to create services and education to enhance their health ... (Read 18 times)

audie · **on:** Jul 8, 2018

When the community collaborates in a plan to create services and education to enhance their health and well-being, the plan is most likely to:

A) Create an environment that fosters change
B) Have an increased rate of success
C) Empower the community but diminish the rate of success
D) Shift the focus from dependency to empowerment

Question 2

The community health nurse works in a community recently devastated by a tornado. Many of the survivors are cared for in their homes. Care is needed for those who are ill, recovering, or in hospice.

To provide the most holistic and effective care to the community, the nurse should:
A) Refer the clients to an outreach center
B) Consult with the hospice nurse and the social worker
C) Provide care according to the physician's orders
D) Collaborate with other health care workers and the clients

dellikani2015 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 8, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Ans: D
Feedback:
Collaborating with community members shifts the focus from dependency on experts to empowerment of all together working toward a goal. Using an assets model requires taking a different philosophic approach to the assessment process. Interaction with the community is the primary approach. Although this approach may also help create an environment that fosters change and leads to an increased rate of success, the most likely result is the focus shifting from dependency to empowerment. It is not likely that the approach would empower the community but diminish the rate of success.

Answer to Question 2

Ans: D
Feedback:
Beyond interdisciplinary expert collaboration, another approach used in community assessment is the collaboration between experts and those with health concerns. For members of a population to have an active voice and part in identifying issues and making decisions about what is needed, community health nurses need to engage participants with a we can do it together approach rather than a we/they approach.