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Unit 5: The Process Dimension of Community Health Nursing - Facilitating change and the Political Process

Man and Woman walking toward government building

Objectives:

  1. Using the Dimensions Model of Community Health, describe how factors in each dimension can serve as either restraining or driving forces for change.

  2. Describe four steps to planning change.

  3. Describe three stages of implementing change.

  4. Describe and differentiate the levels at which health policy formation can occur.

  5. Describe ways that nurses/OTs can influence health policy formation.

  6. Discuss strategies that nurses/OTs and community groups can use to create and support policy.

  7. Discuss at what points during the legislative process that nurses/OTs have the best opportunity to influence the health policy process.

Assigned Readings:

    Clark: Chapter 4:  The Political Context

    Clark: Chapter 13: The Change, Leadership, and Group Processes

    Nyamathi, A.M., Lewis, C., Leake, B., Flaskerud, J., & Bennet, C. (1995). Barriers to condom use and needle cleaning among impoverished minority female injection drug users and partners of injection drug users. Public Health Reports, 110, 166-172.