Chapter 10 Community Empowerment

Chapter 10   Community Empowerment

Complete Chapter Questions With Answers

Sample Questions Are Posted Below

1) A small city is attempting to rejuvenate itself through housing and business development. Which concept of community is this city implementing?

1. Mobilization.
2. Organization.
3. Competence.
4. Development.

Answer:  4

Explanation:  4. Community development is often the term used to refer to the rejuvenation of communities through housing and business development. Community mobilization is a similar concept that involves working with individuals and groups to provide population-based community driven assessments, interventions, and evaluations. Community organization is a process by which community groups are helped to identify common problems or goals, mobilize resources, and develop and implement strategies for reaching the goals they have collectively set. Community competence is defined as the ability of the community to engage in effective problem solving.

Nursing/Int.Conc:  Nursing Process: Assessment

Client Need:  Health Promotion and Maintenance

Cognitive Level:  Analysis

Learning Outcome:  10-1

2) The community has identified strategies for reaching the goals that were collectively set. This best describes the concept of community:

1. Organization.
2. Development.
3. Building.
4. Goal setting.

Answer:  1

Explanation:  1. Community organization is the process by which community groups are helped to identify common problems or goals, mobilize resources, and develop and implement strategies for reaching the goals they have collectively set. Community development is often the term used to refer to the rejuvenation of communities through housing and business development. Community building is defined as continuous, self-renewing efforts by residents and professionals to engage in collective action aimed at problem-solving and enrichment, which creates new or strengthened social networks, new capacities for group action and support, and new standards and expectations for the life of the community. Community goal setting is not a community concept.

Nursing/Int.Conc:  Nursing Process: Planning

Client Need:  Health Promotion and Maintenance

Cognitive Level:  Application

Learning Outcome:  10-1

3) The nurse assists residents to collect information about pollution and to present a petition to the City Council requesting greater accountability from local businesses regarding pollution. This best describes:

1. Individual empowerment.
2. Community empowerment.
3. Community competence.
4. Individual accountability.

Answer:  2

Explanation:  2. Community empowerment focuses on increased civic participation and preparation for collective action to address common concerns or achieve common goals. Individual empowerment focuses on improving individual skills and self-esteem as a precursor to taking control of one’s own life. Community competence is defined as the ability of the community to engage in effective problem solving. Even though one might think the situation involves community competence, the best description is community empowerment. Individual accountability is not an applicable description of this situation.

Nursing/Int.Conc:  Nursing Process: Implementation

Client Need:  Health Promotion and Maintenance

Cognitive Level:  Application

Learning Outcome:  10-2

4) The population health nurse assists neighborhood residents to form a neighborhood watch to help control gang crimes. This best describes:

1. Vertical empowerment.
2. Internal empowerment.
3. Horizontal empowerment.
4. External empowerment.

Answer:  3

Explanation:  3. Horizontal empowerment is internal to the community and is reflected in the community’s ability to solve problems by mobilizing its own resources. Vertical empowerment involves efforts to change power structures outside the community and to leverage outside power and resources to address community concerns and may involve organizing marginalized groups to make demands on the larger society. Internal and external are not terms used to describe empowerment in this description.

Nursing/Int.Conc:  Nursing Process: Implementation

Client Need:  Health Promotion and Maintenance

Cognitive Level:  Application

Learning Outcome:  10-2