Discuss at least two factors that would facilitate the development of the walkways.

Discuss at least two factors that would facilitate the development of the walkways.

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. o Include in your discussions ways that the team might work to overcome those hindrances.

• -Describe what you believe to be the drivers for each of the individual advocates. What factors led the in the individuals to become advocates?

• -Discuss the challenges that each of the individuals identified in their writings. • -Analyze these drivers and challenges and compare them with your own experience to date as an advocate.

• -In what ways do you believe you can expand your advocacy skills in the next five years? Textbooks: Mason, D. J., Dickson, E. L., Perez, G. A., & McLemore, A. R. (Eds). (2020). Policy & politics in nursing and health care (8th ed.). Elsevier. ISBN: 9780323554985. American Psychological Association (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). American Psychological Association.

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