Week 5 Discussion Discussion Question - Due Thursday - A reference and citation are required

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Week 5 Discussion

Discussion Question - Due Thursday - A reference and citation are required. 

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:

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  • 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.
• MUST ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS AND HIGHLIGHT QUESTIONS FOLLOWED BY ANSWER!!!!
• CITATION AND REFERENCE 
• TEXTBOOK AND READING:

Textbook Information

From your course textbook, Policy & Politics in Nursing and Health Care, read the following chapters:

• Research as a Political and Policy Tool
• Coalitions: A Powerful Political Strategy
• Creating a Culture of Health and Working with Communities
• Taking Action: Nurse, Educator, and Legislator: My Journey to the Delaware General Assembly as a Lieutenant Governor
• Taking Action: Nurse Leaders in the Boardroom