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Running Head: OBESITY 1 Obesity Student’s name Institution Date

OBESITY 2 Introduction One's health is the most significant aspect of life. However, one's childhood lifestyle will determine the future and might create either positive or negative impacts. Obesity is a condition that is contributed to one's lifestyle and parenting aspects. Obesity is highly prone to teenagers and youths due to their poor dieting conditions and parenting aspects. Obesity is a population health problem that affects teenagers positively and is effectively addressed by the state board nursing practice standards, leadership, collaboration, communication, and change management strategies. Obesity Obesity is identified as excessive fat accumulation that causes health risks. A person is obese or overweight when their body mass index (BMI) is over 30 and 25, respectively. However, this medical situation increases disease risks and health issues such as hypertension, heart disease, high blood pressure, cancer, and diabetes (Furukawa et al., 2017). This condition occurs due to high amounts of energy, less physical activities, psychological factors, medication, and genetics. Additionally, this disease causes heart blockage and stomach infections. In this practicum, I decided to focus on the group of teenagers and youths. This group is highly prone to obesity issues, which is causes other diseases such as high blood pressure and hypertension. This group is prone to obesity due to the current lifestyles, such as less physical activities and high amounts of energy consumption. Teenagers and youths in this century have poor eating habits, such as increased consumption of fatty foods. However, this lifestyle contributes to the high cholesterol level in one's body, thus causing obesity.

OBESITY 3 Obesity is highly caused by physical inactivity, psychological factors, medications, and diseases such as hypothyroidism. Likewise, genetics contributes to obesity cases. This disease is significant since it is linked with poorer mental health outcomes and decreased life quality. Obesity is substantial as it reveals how teenagers and youths live unhealthy lifestyle and affect their future. However, obesity creates increased mortality risks to the overweight, obese, and those with high BMI above 25 (Furukawa et al., 2017). Teenagers and youths have a high percentage of becoming obese adult. Obesity is relevant to this group since it outlines how psychological, family, and socioeconomic factors. Likewise, it is appropriate since it reveals how parents contribute to childhood obesity. Baccalaureate-prepared nurses offer direct and indirect care services. As a baccalaureate- prepared nurse, I focus on patient advocacy and delivering high-quality care, care outcomes evaluation and leadership services. Thus, obesity is crucial to my practice since it will allow me to offer nursing interventions, education, and prevention services. Likewise, it will provide research and evidence on obesity causes, effects, prevention, and treatment services. Peer-reviewed literature evidence Braga et al. (2020) reveal the actions of nurses towards obesity in a primary healthcare facility. The authors in this article performed a phenomenological study with 12 nurses of a city in the Minas Gerais State. The authors offered evidence on nurses' action towards obesity prevention and control, healthy lifestyle habits guidance, and barriers to the nurses' stories (Braga et al., 2020). However, the data can be unreliable if the article does not include the objective, methodology, results, and finding aspects. Likewise, the unreliability of data can be identified by human biases.

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OBESITY 4 This article reveals the barriers to evidence-based practice implementation in addressing obesity. The obstacles include inadequate reimbursement for patient care services, poor healthcare management, and time (Wilfley et al., 2017). Inadequate reimbursement affects nurses' action to address obesity since they lack the effort to offer educational programs to the patients. Time is an obstacle that affects the attention nurses offer patients, especially in guiding about nutrition aspects. Likewise, poor healthcare management affects nurses' action in providing quality patient care services. This literature reveals the importance of nursing theory or conceptual framework in offering guidance of nurse actions in the clinical practicum. However, the conceptual framework guides nursing content selection strategies. Likewise, this framework aids to show relationships among ideas and the research study. State board nursing practice standards and obesity The state board nursing practice standards involve guidelines offered for nursing performance by the American Nurses Association. The standards focus on core values of human dignity, integrity, autonomy, altruism, and social justice. However, governmental policies reveal the effectiveness of improving patients for this obesity issue. The health policy creates a platform for increasing primary care services to obese patients and ensures obesity management. This article revealed the clinical implications of caring for obese patients and primary care providers' advocacy for their patients (Torti et al., 2017). The primary care providers play an essential role in improving policy change and surrounding that support obesity reduction. Nurses play an essential role in policymaking to improve outcomes; reduce illness and hospital readmissions. Nurses are governed by the state board nursing practice standards and are

OBESITY 5 involved in medical policy aspects. However, they offer education services to patients and families on nutrition, healthcare system and obesity-related illnesses. Nurses are engaged as counselors in the healthcare policy to help the patient recognize their health goals and create strategies to accomplish the strategies (Hauff et al., 2020). However, the local, state and federal policies affect my nursing practice about obesity. The approach reveals that nurses should influence practice standards and processes to assure care quality aspects. These policies impact my resource allocation in supporting healthcare delivery and reducing obesity. Additionally, these policies include laws, rules, and regulations that affect my nursing practice when addressing obesity issues. Leadership strategies Leadership strategies can aid in improving outcomes, patient-centered care, and experience related to obesity. Leadership strategies are useful since they influence, engage and encourage outstanding performances. These strategies offer to empower services and crucial communication aspects. Likewise, leadership strategies create a connection between people and provide substantial performance expectations. In this situation, leadership strategies will offer ideas and allow nutrition training, parental guidance implementation services. Leadership must play an essential role in addressing this issue by involving healthcare leaders and developing programs. The administration must play the role of implementing programs to assist address obesity before birth. Teachings on prenatal growth, changes in metabolism and health plans will help pregnant mothers avoid giving birth to overweight children. Another leadership aspect includes engaging and empowering health education programs (Allender et al., 2019). Health coaching and support services will assist solve obesity

OBESITY 6 issues. Leadership services of family involvement promotion and understanding the significant obesity healthcare expenses are crucial in curbing obesity. Parental guidance aids in determining the health status of children and their growth. Markedly, collaboration, and communication strategies can assist solve obesity issues. The collaboration services include a partnership of the healthcare providers and parents in guiding children effectively. Communication services such as social media and implementing health training programs can aid address obesity cases (Beckerman et al., 2019). However, developing a common language and conceptual framework will be essential in addressing this health issue. Change management strategies are crucial in managing obesity, and it involves the program managers and policymakers. Additionally, management services such as physical activity behaviors and nutrition aspects are essential to addressing obesity. Implementing environmental strategies such as healthy foods is a change management perspective crucial in reducing obesity among teenagers and youths. Conclusion In conclusion, obesity is a population health problem that affects teenagers positively and is effectively addressed by the state board nursing practice standards, leadership, collaboration, communication, and change management strategies. Obesity is identified as excessive fat accumulation that causes health risks. This disease causes an increase in disease risks such as hypertension, high blood pressure, and diabetes. However, teenagers and youths are prone to obesity due to the current lifestyles, such as less physical activities and high amounts of energy consumption. Specific barriers, such as inadequate reimbursement for patient care services, poor

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OBESITY 7 healthcare management, and time affect nurses' action in addressing obesity. However, the nursing theory and conceptual framework aid in nurses' practices. The state board nursing practice standards and government policies impact patient care services, and nurses play a role in policymaking in managing obesity. Leadership strategies can aid in improving outcomes, patient- centered care, and experience related to obesity. Leadership, collaboration, communication, and change management strategies are crucial in reducing obesity and improving products and patient care services.

OBESITY 8 References Allender, S., Brown, A. D., Bolton, K. A., Fraser, P., Lowe, J., & Hovmand, P. (2019). Translating systems thinking into practice for community action on childhood obesity. Obesity Reviews , 20 , 179-184. Beckerman, J. P., Aftosmes-Tobio, A., Kitos, N., Jurkowski, J. M., Lansburg, K., Kazik, C., ... & CHL study team. (2019). Communities for healthy living (CHL)–A family-centered childhood obesity prevention program integrated into Head Start services: Study protocol for a pragmatic cluster randomized trial. Contemporary clinical trials , 78 , 34- 45. Braga, V. A. S., Jesus, M. C. P. D., Conz, C. A., Silva, M. H. D., Tavares, R. E., & Merighi, M. A. B. (2020). Actions of nurses toward obesity in primary health care units. Revista brasileira de enfermagem , 73 (2). Furukawa, S., Fujita, T., Shimabukuro, M., Iwaki, M., Yamada, Y., Nakajima, Y., & Shimomura, I. (2017). Increased oxidative stress in obesity and its impact on metabolic syndrome. The Journal of clinical investigation, 114(12), 1752-1761. Hauff, C., Fruh, S. M., Sims, B. M., Williams, S. G., Herf, C., Golden, A., ... & Hall, H. R. (2020). Nurse practitioner students’ observations of preceptor engagement in obesity management and weight bias: A mixed-methods approach. Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners , 32 (7), 520.

OBESITY 9 Torti, J., Luig, T., Borowitz, M., Johnson, J. A., Sharma, A. M., & Campbell-Scherer, D. L. (2017). The 5As team patient study: patient perspectives on the role of primary care in obesity management. BMC family practice , 18 (1), 1-10. Wilfley, D. E., Staiano, A. E., Altman, M., Lindros, J., Lima, A., Hassink, S. G., ... & Improving Access and Systems of Care for Evidence‐Based Childhood Obesity Treatment Conference Workgroup. (2017). Improving access and systems of care for evidence‐based childhood obesity treatment: Conference key findings and next steps. Obesity , 25 (1), 16- 29.

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