Community engagement is the collaboration between individuals from

Community engagement is the collaboration between
individuals from the community, hospitals, and stakeholder
organizations to identify and address community health-related
issues and promote well-being to achieve improved health
impacts and outcomes. It engages the community to attain
sustainable and long-term relationships, decision-making,
implementation, or results. Community engagement is essential
in nursing practice as it helps nurses understand the community
they serve, including specific health issues affecting them, their
root causes, and the resources and assets available to address
these issues. The paper will discuss the most effective levels of
engagement that nurses can provide to the community.
Levels of Engagement that Nurses can Provide the Community
There are five levels of engagement a nurse can provide the
community, which include sharing information, consulting,
collaborating, and empowering the community. The first level
involves a two-way process involving nurses providing the
community with health information, for instance, educating
them on the health issues affecting the community and other
new health resources and programs available for the community
and how they can access them. Also, by sharing information,
nurses can identify health issues affecting the community and
other health needs for effective planning and intervention. The
second level involves consultation and the community in health-
related decisions and plans. In these levels, nurses seek and
consider the views of the community members on the health
services, policies, or programs that directly affect their health
and well-being (Drake et al., 2022). The nurses consult and
involve the community members to improve their access to
available health programs and services and their relationship
with the health providers. For instance, when conducting an
immunization program, the targeted community members must
be consulted and involved directly to create trust, which is
essential for the program's success (WHO, 2020).

Another most effective level of engagement is collaboration.
This level involves nurses collaborating with the community
leaders, members, and other eternal partners such as charity
organizations to raise resources and implement strategies to
improve the community's health. Collaboration enables priority
setting and decision-making based on the community members
themselves. The last level of engagement is community
empowerment achieved through the active participation of the
individuals in the community at all the other levels. At this
level, the community members gain power, self-esteem, and
confidence to articulate their concerns to the nurses and ensure
that appropriate actions are taken to address them. The nurses
mobilize community assets, empowering the community to
implement interventions and develop systems for self-
governance and strategies to improve their health and well -
being (WHO, 2020).
In conclusion, each successive level empowers the community
to be active participants, having more significant influence and
voice in decision-making on nursing practices, programs, and
policies affecting them.
References
Drake, A. K., Perkovic, A., Reeve, C., Alexander, S. M.,
Nguyen, V. M., & Dunmall, K. M. (2022). Community
participation in coastal and marine research and monitoring in
Inuit Nunangat: a scoping literature review. FACETS, 7, 891–
911. https://doi.org/10.1139/facets-2021-0067
WHO. (2020, October 5). Community engagement: a health
promotion guide for universal health coverage in the hands of
the people.
Www.who.int. https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240
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Assignment 1: Position Paper One – Social and Cultural Norms
By
Student Name
SOC105: Society and the Media
Professor Doar-Sinkfield
Date
Disclaimer: This is a sample. Use this as an example and create
your own essay.
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Introduction
Mass media is not the primary decision-maker of family values.
Americans have
traditional values that are not influenced by mass media given
that agenda-setting theory states
media does not tell us to do, however as stated in the Taking
Sides: Clashing Views in Media
and Society textbook, “the “agenda setting theory” of
communication, which posits that media

do not tell us what to think, but rather, tell us what to think
about, to studies of para-social
interactions (the relationship we form with people whom we see
in media), and ideas of
resonance, which describes how we relate to the images we see
in media.” (Alexander 3) This
premise allows families to differentiate between what is real
and what is false on mass media,
thereby preventing mass media influences from infiltrating
family values.
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and homework may not get done.
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While it is evident that mass media affects individuals and
families, it is proven that
families have the final say, guidance, and direction when it
comes to setting standards and
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Conclusion
In conclusion, mass media plays an important role in society as

it pertains to information
and awareness; however, it does not take the place of productive
education from a teacher,
educator, or parent. In theory, agenda setting directs attention
to issues of concern, but that is not
the solution, individuals must take the information received to
review and disseminate wisely not
only to children but to those in the community in which they
serve and live. Reality shows do
show the condition of American life, but it is not typical of
American family values.
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Source Page
1. Alexander. 2019. Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Media and
Society. 15th edition.
2. …
3. …
Assignment 1: Social and Cultural Norms

By
Alexis Gray
SOC105: Society and the Media
1/7/21
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Mass Media should not be trusted for people’s perceptions of
minorities or family values. We have seen
time and time again, how the Media uses and lies about the
things going on in the world. We see on
television shows how they skew things about minorities and
tweak them to fit their agenda. Having one
view of the way things should be or should look like is okay.
The media’s job however is to show
everybody equally and yet “as different as possible”. However,
in Taking Sides in the Media and Social
Issues it said “This form was naturalized as universal but was
never the reality for a majority of people,

even though it was upheld as a dominant cultural ideal. Diverse
arrangements have appeared since the
1960s and 1970s, constituting what the historian Edward
Shorter termed “the postmodern family.”
People have always been confused about the appearance of the
family.
What are family values? Family values, sometimes referred to
as familial values, are traditional or
cultural values that pertain to the family's structure, function,
roles, beliefs, attitudes, and ideals. They
are a system in which the mother and father set up daily
functions. Family values involve all the ideas of
how you want to live your family life, and they are often passed
down from previous generations. It
keeps and sustains traditional behavior to be carried over and
re-lived through another family member.
Parents have the right and the duty to teach and provide certain
knowledge to their children and to be
the role models of the head of the family and household. A lot
of children lack said knowledge because
of the different ways some of them grew up. Some kids might
not have had a loving, compassionate
parent or a parent that studied and helped with classwork.
Having home-cooked meals and dinner table

time when the clock hits 6 p.m. is a strong moment for families.
The majority of families and their upheld values have caused
the direction of their children’s lives and
how they operate and take it into reality and other places in
their lives. While mass media will try and
project different thoughts or thinking in the way a family should
operate or work when it comes to
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everyday battles, families have the foundation to do what is best
for them and theirs. Mass media can
only have an effect if you let it.
In conclusion, mass media can and will portray a different way
of seeing things. In all efforts that is okay.
We can learn to have an open mind when it comes to judging
others and learn a lot of things from
media. It gives people a lot of awareness as to concerns and and
views. We can raise our children and

have a say in what we choose to do and believe.
1. Alexander. 2019. Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Media and
Society. 15th edition.
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