Nutrition Paper

2-3 pages

Nurse’s Touch: Health and Wellness: Eating Healthy and Maintaining a Healthy Weight, Case Study and Question: How Being Overweight or Obese Affects Your Health. Review the

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ATI #2: Nurse’s Touch Guidelines: Wellness & Self-Care: Eating Healthy & Maintaining a Healthy Weight: CASE STUDY

PURPOSE:

Nurse’s Touch provides interactives that will enhance students’ knowledge, skills, and attitudes with important topics and scenarios in nursing practice. Each module provides case studies along with a practice assessment of content comprehension.

COURSE OUTCOMES:

This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes.

1. Assess whether nutritional intake provides basic nutrients for optimal health and wellness.

2. Describe nutritional needs for optimal health and wellness throughout the lifespan.

3. Discuss the psychological, sociological, economical, and cultural implications of food on nutritional status.

4. Describe evidence based practice interventions and modifications in nutrition therapy that can positively influence the outcome of disease and illness.

Due Date:

·

Week #3, Nov 15, Sunday, 11:59 PM: Submit in ATI #2 in CANVAS

REQUIREMENTS:

· Each
Screen Shot for 5 Case Study review
questions from Video clip
(Located in ATI #1 Healthy Weight Lesson module)

AND

· Additional
Written Paper for 4 Additional Questions
:

1. How does additional body weight affect physical status in general?

2. What are some of the barriers and challenges to losing weight in the U.S.?

3. Describe cultural considerations when discussing weight and weight loss with clients in general.

4. What would you suggest to help Mark achieve a healthy weight?

· Late Assignment and Academic Integrity Violation Policy will be applied to this assignment.

Total Points Possible: 25 points

· 5 Screen Shots for 5 question completion
AND
a written paper for 4 Additional Questions following Paper Format (page #2) and APA-format

Preparing the ati CASE STUDY REVIEW Assignment:

· Log into “My ATI” Account

· Select “Wellness and Self-Care”- Eating Healthy and Maintaining a Healthy Weight Module

· Scroll down to “Case Study”:
How being overweight or obese affects your health
”

· Complete the Case Study and Review Questions

· Take screen shot for each completed question: Total 5 Screen Shots

Preparing Additional WRITTEN PAPER: Additional Questions

· Page Length: 2-3 pages EXCLUDING title page and reference (APA format)

· Answers must be descriptive and comprehensive.

·
Each answer must have 2 complete paragraphs with at least 10 sentences in each paragraph.

·
Must use complete sentences.

· Paper must be written following
Paper Format
using
APA format
(Title page, Running head, Page number, Headings, In-text Citation, Full-sentences, and References)

PAPER FORMAT

Body Weight and Physical Status

·
How
does excess body weight affect
Five body systems
?

· Describe the
mechanisms
of extra body weight on each body system.

· Cardiovascular (CV)System

· Gastrointestinal (GI) System

· Musculoskeletal System

· Endocrine System

· Immune System

· Must include in-text citations

Barriers and Challenges

·
Identify

Three barriers and challenges
to losing weight in the U.S.

·
Describe
how and why each identified barrier and challenge affect losing weight?

· Must include in-text citations

Cultural Considerations

·
Identify Three different cultures.

·
Describe
how and why each culture influence weight and weight loss with clients in each culture

· Must include in-text citations

Advice for Mark

·
What
would you suggest to help
Mark
achieve a healthy weight?

· Must include in-text citations

PLAGIARISM: “Turnitin” Percentage: Less than 25 percentage: Acceptable Percentage.

· Turnitin Draft Submission Box

· Submit your draft of paper into Turnitin Draft Submission Box to check your percentage as many times as needed before you submit your final paper to designated Unit.

· If your Final paper has 25% or higher percentage, you must revise/modify your paper contents
BEFORE
you submit your paper due date and time.

· If your Final paper has 25% or higher percentage
AT/AFTER
you submit your final paper due date and time, Academic Integrity Violation Procedures will be initiated

Academic Integrity Violation Procedure

· Academic Integrity Violation letter will be sent to student

· Assignment Grade will be 0 point

· The violation case will be reviewed and a further sanction will be determined by the Administrators.

Grading Rubric

5 Screen Shots

5

Written Assignment:
Descriptive & Comprehensive following Paper Format guidelines.

20

Total

25

Assignment Criteria

Satisfactory or Highest Level of Performance
 25 Points

Needs Improvement
10 Points

Poor or Failing
F
0 Points

Reviews case study and four questions

Reviews case study and satisfactorily completes the five questions (100% or 5 correct answers) and provided detailed information for all 4 additional questions.

Unsatisfactorily completes the five questions (See additional points)

Does not complete the case study questions an
Not submitted written paper for 4 additional questions

Additional points
(If not satisfactory on first attempt)

Added additional insight into the case study and questions to further understand the concepts in the module and score additional points as follows (Note: total score with additional points cannot be greater than 100%)

SECOND attempt:
· If satisfactory, gain an additional 5% to first score
· If unsatisfactory, no additional percentage added to first score

Does not remediate on case study questions as directed by instructor.
Gain 0% to the first score

Total Possible = 25 points

Points Earned

NR228 Nutrition Health and Wellness

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NR228 Nurse Touch Guidelines x Revised 09/19/2017 css

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