1. Promoting Healthy Partnerships with Faith Communities
Community As Partner
Chapter 17 Part 1
Promoting Healthy Partnerships with Faith Communities

2. Contributing Factors to Religious-Medical Partnerships
Increasing concern for disparities in health care
Access to health care and insurance coverage
Dissatisfaction with disease-centered medical model
Recent emphasis on bioethics
Church-based 12-step and meal programs

3. Contributing Factors to Religious-Medical Partnerships (cont.)
Self-responsibility for health
Increasing autonomous roles in nursing
Increasing lay ministry responsibilities
Limited health system resources

4. Overall Goals of HP 2010 Increase quality and years of healthy life
Eliminate health disparities

5. Role of Nurse With FBOs Consultant Educator Counselor Referral agent
Advocate
Facilitator

6. Nursing Specialties Usually Employed by FBOs
Critical care
Trauma
Ambulatory care
Nurse practitioners with adult and family certification
Home health rehabilitation
Nursing home

7. Measuring a Program’s Effectiveness
Number of participants
Individual goal accomplishment
Overall satisfaction with health outcomes

8. Strategies for Identifying Faith Community Needs
Distribute educational needs survey
Attend meeting for different groups within the community
Form focus groups
Provide a suggestion box
Form an ad hoc committee

9. Examples of Intervention Programs
Healthy eating classes
Exercise classes
CPR
Positive parenting
AIDS/HIV information sessions

10. Question 1
You have created a walking map with the local church for their elder population. A walking map is a successful health promotion tool because it is:
Inexpensive to maintain
Self-directed
Faith-based
Community-monitored
Effective with goal-directed elders

11. Answer 1
Answer: b
A walking map is a self-directed exercise tool that is popular particularly with the elderly. These maps have mileage- marked routes in each neighborhood.

12. Nutrition Programs Basics of a healthy diet How to shop for food
How to make good choices in restaurants
Incorporate MyPyramid guidelines
Include children

13. CPR Training AHA classes Awareness, not certification
Public access to defibrillator programs

14. Ideas for Organizing a Health Fair
Invite health care providers and other community resources to participate
Offer free immunizations
Include screening stations (vision, hearing, etc.)
Have stations that focus on environmental health
Invite the media

15. Question 2
Planning a health fair to coincide with an annual bazaar or fundraiser is beneficial because:
It is announced in the place of worship
The religious leader will make it mandatory
The community will be present anyway
The nurse is part of the religious community
It is cost-effective

16. Answer 2
Answer: c
If a faith community undertakes the project of a health fair, timing is very important. One theory is that it should have its own special time of year; another view is that it can coincide with an annual bazaar or fundraiser. Because the community usually supports the annual fundraiser, a captive audience is present.

17. Additional Health Promotion Strategies
Consultations and referrals
Bereavement program
Weight management program
Smoking cessation program
Caregiver support groups

18. Question 3
Involving nursing volunteers from the local population is beneficial to the community as a whole because it ensures that the multicultural diversity of the community:
Will not be biased toward one culture
Will be maintained if at all possible
Will be mirrored in the nursing team
Will reflect the community health nursing team
Will promote acceptance by the neighborhood

19. Answer 3
Answer: c
Involving nursing volunteers from the community ensures that the multicultural diversity of the community can be mirrored in the nursing team.

20. Challenges to Programs
Language barriers
Cultural factors
Economic factors

21. End of Part 1
Please continue with Chapter 17 Part 2