As a staff community health nurse, you have been asked to chair an ad hoc committee in your health department made up of interdisciplinary colleagues and community members. The committee’s task is to...

As a staff community health nurse, you have been asked to chair an ad hoc committee in your health department made up of interdisciplinary colleagues and community members. The committee’s task is to plan a health fair for the local community.

a. Outline the specific planned-change steps that your committee needs to ensure a successful health fair with outcomes that promote improved levels of community health.

b. Select one specific objective of your health fair (e.g., cholesterol screening of an at-risk aggregate with the goal of reduced cholesterol levels in a year). Does the proposed objective require an evolutionary or revolutionary change in citizens’ health-related behaviors? Justify your choice of the type of change.

c. Explain the strategies that you would use to effect the change.

d. Six principles for effecting positive change are presented in this chapter. Briefly discuss how you would use each one as you and your committee develop the health fair.