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                                                    INITIAL POST

                                    Diet and Overweight in Tennessee

A significant behavioral risk factor affecting our nation’s population is unhealthy diet resulting in obesity (Knickman & Kovner, 2015).  Unfortunately, this health issue significantly influenced the great state of Tennessee.  Tennessee is ranked 15th out of all the states for highest obesity rates in adults and ranked 20th for ages 10-17 (The State of Obesity, 2018). Tennessee’s obesity rate has increased dramatically in the past few decades.  In 1990, the obesity rate for the state was 11.1%, rose to 20.9% in 2000, and 32.8% in 2017 (The State of Obesity, 2018).  This obesity has affected a rise in health conditions such as diabetes with a current rate of 13.1%, hypertension with a current rate of 38.7%, and heart disease with a current rate of 38.7% (The State of Obesity, 2018).  If the trend of obesity continues at this rate, disease is going to increase substantially in Tennessee.  To stop the trend of poor diet and obesity in Tennessee, drastic interventions are needed.  

Population-Based Intervention Model Examples

According to the Population-Based Intervention Model, effective interventions include downstream, midstream, and upstream (Knickman & Kovner, 2015).  Downstream interventions include interventions based on an individual.  Providers in my community should focus on BMI at well-visits with individuals.  As part of the well-visit, the provider needs to provide education on the individual’s BMI.  Specifically, discussion regarding what it means and how to decrease it or prevent it from elevation is imperative.  The provider should review the patient’s regular diet, make suggestions on improvements, and provide resources related to healthy eating.  In small southern Tennessee towns, education on healthy nutrition is lacking.  However, people seem to trust their doctors in the rural community.  Individual focus on diet by the providers would be beneficial. 

Midstream interventions of the Population-Based Intervention Model are interventions focused on communities (Knickman & Kovner, 2015).  When traveling through Tennessee, the importance of southern cooking and fast food is announced all over the interstate billboards.  Manchester, TN is no exception as Interstate 24 runs straight through it creating the nickname, Interstate Town.  Manchester is the main town in Coffee County with even smaller towns surrounding it.  This is the community in which I live, full of fast food and very limited healthy restaurant options.   The United States Department of Agriculture (2017) reported 38 fast food restaurants in 2014, making 0.71 fast food restaurants for every 1,000 people.  Restaurants with healthy options in Manchester, TN are nearly non-existent.  An example of an effective midstream intervention in Manchester would be to bring in healthier restaurants.  This busy, working-class community full of families eats out a lot while focusing on church events, sports, and volunteering.   Having quick, healthy restaurant options would be helpful in improving health and decreasing obesity in this area.

Upstream interventions of the Population-Based Intervention Model are interventions made by policies at the state and national levels (Knickman and Kovner, 2015).  According to The State of Obesity (2018), Tennessee has yet to make any laws concerning the requirement of posting caloric information in restaurants.  Perhaps, if individuals saw this information on their regularly eaten food options, they would get accustomed to choosing the lesser calorie options.  Also, this policy may help to inform community members as to why eating at home or having healthier restaurants would be beneficial to their health.

Summary

Poor diet and obesity are huge concerns in Tennessee as the increasing trends will only worsen disease rates in the future.  Ideas such as one-on-one nutritional attention by providers, healthier restaurant choices, and policies requiring posted nutritional information could increase the health of the Tennessee population.  

References

Knickman, J. R., & Kovner, A. R. (Eds.). (2015). Health care delivery in the united states (11th ed.). New York, NY: Springer Publishing.

The State of Obesity. (2018). The state of obesity in tennessee [data file]. Retrieved from https://stateofobesity.org/states/tn/

United States Department of Agriculture. (2017). Economic research service [data file].  Retrieved from https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-environment-atlas/go-to-the-atlas/

In the assigned article, you read about ovarian teratomas. This diagnosis, although rare, can cause patients to present with psychiatric symptoms. However, if not discovered, the patient can end up in respiratory arrest and/or cardiac arrest on the psychiatric unit. Think back over your experience to a time when a misdiagnosis may have had serious consequences to a patient. Research the disease and discuss it. What are the clinical manifestations? What are common differential diagnoses? How common is the disease? What are the potential consequences of misdiagnosis? How can misdiagnosis be prevented?

Your initial posting should be 200 to 300 words

Article: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2245881/

InstructionsYou are  currently working at NCLEX Memorial Hospital in the  Infectious Diseases Unit. Over the past few days, you have noticed an  increase in patients admitted with a particular infectious disease. You  believe that the ages of these patients play a critical role in the  method used to treat the patients. You decide to speak to your manager,  and together you work to use statistical analysis to look more closely  at the ages of these patients. You do some research and put together a spreadsheet of the data that contains the following information: Client number Infection disease status Age of the patient You are to put together a PowerPoint presentation that explains the  analysis of your findings which you will submit to your manager. The  presentation should contain all components of your  findings. For  review, the components of the report should include: Brief overview of the scenario and variables in the data set Discussion, calculation, and interpretation of the mean, median, mode, range, standard deviation, and variance Discussion, construction, and interpretation of the 95% confidence interval Explanation of the full hypothesis test Conclusion The  calculations should be performed in your spreadsheet that you  will also submit  to your manager. You can find additional information  on what to add to your PowerPoint  presentation in this Word document. Use the  questions in the worksheet as your guide for the contents of your presentation. For your final deliverable, submit your PowerPoint presentation and  the Excel  workbook showing your work. Do NOT submit your Word document

 

write your personal philosophy of nursing. The essay is to be typewritten and double-spaced (1,000 words) and should include the following: 

1. Introduction that includes who you are and where you practice nursing 

2. Definition of nursing 

3. Assumptions or underlying beliefs 

4. Definitions and examples of the major domains of nursing 

5. Summary that includes answers to the following questions: a. How are the domains connected? b. What is your vision of nursing for the future? c. What are the challenges that you will face as a nurse? d. What are your goals for professional development? 

 

Case Studies

Each student will be assigned two of the case studies below. Your post should be approximately 250 words in length and contain substantive information that contributes to an understanding of the disorder under discussion. You may post graphics from online sources, but please do NOT simply cut and paste entire entries from the internet. You are expected to provide references for all the information cited.

Discussion Questions

1. Relate history to the diagnosis. What risk factors are present, and how does each predispose to disease?

2. Explain the cause of the disease in this patient.

3. How could this disease have been prevented in this patient?

4. Discuss the complications that might develop in this patient.

5. Discuss the treatments available to the patient.

6. What is the probable prognosis for this patient?

 Case Study#3: Crystal, a A 32-year-old black woman visits her physician because she has noticed traces of blood in her urine. She reports that she has been increasingly tired at her job as a waitress, and for the past six months has experienced periodic stiffness and swelling in her hands, mild fevers, poor appetite, and weight loss. She has also been bothered by a rash on her cheeks that gets worse whenever she is out in the sun for any length of time. Her physician orders lab tests which show small amounts of protein and red blood cells in the urine, and the presence of antinuclear antibodies. On the basis of these findings she is diagnosed with SLE.