Lesson 15 Discussion

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Case Study

Chapter 11 – Health Promotion: Achieving Change Through Education

The community health nurse is preparing a smoking cessation program to be presented at the local high school for individuals who are thinking about quitting smoking. The community health nurse is identifying appropriate education activities that include the three domains of learning and the three stages of change.

1. The community health nurse has to consider the

three stages of change in considering individual

reasons to stop smoking. What are the three

stages of change?

2. Planned or managed change is a purposeful,

designed effort to effect improvement such as

smoking cessation with the help of a change

agent who is the community health nurse. What

are the eight steps of planned change that the

community health nurse needs to consider? 3. The community health nurse understands that

encompassing strategies are the critical change

strategies to consider in planning the health

education program. What are the three major

change strategies that must be considered by

the community health nurse?

4. The community health nurse understands that

the nature of learning contributes to the

effectiveness of teaching on smoking cessation.

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The nurse needs to include the three domains of

learning in the presentation. What are the three

learning domains that must be considered in

planning the education program?