Public Health Nurses Empowering a Community

Step 1: In your initial post to this discussion forum, respond to the following prompts. Include personal and practice-related experiences or observations as examples that support your response:

• In your own words, define community empowerment and describe how it differs, in your view, from community participation or involvement
• Identify two or three strategies that nurses could use to encourage community empowerment in health programs
• Give an example from the literature of an empowered community addressing a health concern

Step 2:  Your post should be 2-3 paragraphs long, following the  outlined in the discussion rubric under course materials.