The community health nurse is presenting sexuality education to a group of sixth-grade students. The community health nurse tells the students that they must never have unprotected sexual intercourse or they will die from a sexually transmitted infection and displays pictures of people dying from AIDS. The nurse is using which change strategy?

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The community nurse in this scenario is using a power-coercive change strategy; these strategies are based on fear. Normative-reeducative change strategies present new information and directly influence people's attitudes and behaviors through persuasion. Empiric-rational change strategies are based on the assumption that people are rational and, when presented with empiric information, will adopt new practices that appear to be in their best interest. Planned change is a purposeful, designed effort to effect improvement in a system with the assistance of a change agent.

The Community Health Nurse Is Presenting Sexuality Education to a Group