A community health nurse is providing an in-service program to the agency staff about the Strategic Prevention Framework of SAMHSA, which will be used to develop behavioral intervention programs. The nurse determines that the staff had understood the teaching when they state which of the following?

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The PSF is guided by tow cross-cutting principles: cultural competence and sustainability. Cultural competence is the ability of an individual or organization to understand and interact effectively with people who have different values, lifestyles, and traditions based on their distinctive heritage and social relationships. Sustainability is the process of building an adaptive and effective system that achieves and maintains desired long-term results. The process of the program is based on five steps, and community stakeholders are imperative but not encompassing. Piloting a program will allow for evaluation, but pilots are not administered over 5 years. Sustainability uses a variety of measures to evaluate the effectiveness and not just subjective evaluations.

A Community Health Nurse Is Providing an In-Service Program to the Agency