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Essay Instructions: Childhood Obesity

GUIDELINES FOR CAPSTONE LEADERSHIP PAPER
The purpose of this paper is to provide the student with the opportunity to identify and investigate a problem or dilemma within nursing, nursing education, health care, or community nursing that lends itself to change and nursing interventions. Multiple factors in today?s health care arena influence the practice of nursing and or the structure or operation of health care institutions. This capstone project must demonstrate your ability to problem-solve and critically think through those factors and identify interventions directed toward problem resolution.

You are the nurse leader or manager and you are challenged to resolve this problem.


Paper Guidelines
Select a topic of interest to you
? It may be a problem that impacts a variety of settings including clinical facilities, the community or any system that affects health care or nursing.
? This may be a problem you have experienced, heard or read about. Rapid changes in health care may make you question ?how?? or ?why??
? Discuss the topic for your paper with Senior II faculty. Final approval of your topic must be given by course faculty.

This paper must be a scholarly presentation.
? Current nursing research and evidence must be applied to your topic.
? References from other disciplines (management, sociology, business, psychology, etc.) MUST be used.
? Spelling, grammar, sentence structure, and logical flow of ideas are all essential.
? Paper is limited to 10-12 typewritten, double-spaced pages written in APA format.

1. Introduction
? Must address the population involved and the extent of the problem.
? Local/regional/state and/or national statistical data should be included ? as appropriate ? to support your argument. You must quantify your problem in some form.
? Do NOT just repeat or state statistics and research studies. You should be able to explain your problem and validate it as a problem in YOUR OWN WORDS. You need to understand what is causing this problem.
? Commonly used definitions may be used. Less common may be used as appropriate once explained.
? Make sure you CLEARLY articulate the problem, the impact of the problem, the population affected by the problem, and/or the type of institution involved.

2. Review of the Literature
? This chapter must include a synthesis of appropriate literature, including studies that support your assessment of the problem. You may also find a study that contradicts your assessment of the problem.
? You need to understand the concepts of the literature. Again, do not just repeat or restate what you read.
? You should be using evidence-based articles relevant to your problem. Clearly state how you use this information to support your choice of a problem and/or action plan.
? This is the chapter that should provide the reader with a thorough background of information related to the problem.
? How does the literature relate to your problem/paper?
? This is primarily a summary of the literature you have cited.
? State whether the problem is linked to a national quality or safety indicator for JCAHO, NQF, NCQA, PHAB, Healthy People 2020, etc.
? Is your problem linked to a national nurse-sensitive quality indicator? If yes, which one?

3. Proposed Solutions/Action Plans/Recommendations for Practice with Evaluation
Processes
? You should identify at least 2 potential proposals or solutions for your problem.
? This requires a great deal of thought, creativity, and critical thinking.
? These must be relevant, achievable, and within the scope of nursing practice to implement.
? Develop some measureable proposals/interventions for resolution of the problem.
? If your proposals require money, how do you convince others you should be allocated this money instead of someone or something else?
? If the problem can not be resolved, how will you reduce or manage the problem?
? Your proposals (interventions) must be specific and measurable.
? They must include timelines
? What changes are required for resolution?
? Are there consequences if this problem is not resolved?
? Are there consequences to individuals if they do not participate and assist in resolution of the problem?

4. Conclusions
? Include a summary of information previously presented without citing your references again.
? Provide the reader with a smooth transition from the body of the paper to your conclusions.

5. References
? Include all references used for the paper.
? You must use references from peer-reviewed nursing journals. You must use at least one non-nursing journal (business, medicine, physical therapy, psychology, management, etc).
? Sources should be within the last 5 years unless considered a ?classic?


Questions to Consider:
? What is the problem?
? What is the extent of the problem?
? Who has a stake in this problem?
? Who might oppose or reject your proposal? Why?
? Does this problem/dilemma have an impact on patient care, nursing practice, the community,
or the profession of nursing?
? What are obstacles to resolving the problem?
? What literature is available regarding the problem or dilemma?
? Should other nurses, health care professionals, educators, patients, families, or citizens
be concerned about this problem? If so, why?

Remember, although you must use current research and evidence while writing the paper, it is NOT a research paper. This is a scholarly paper.

Essay Instructions: Childhood and Family Memoir

Write about a personal moment that created a conflict and insight that made you change. Organize a message, claim, thesis, main idea, author's purpose. Then write the paper so that it is interesting to your reader. Provide details that include the senses, descriptive pictures of precise moments, thoughts, dialogue, humor. You must have changed due to this experience. This epiphany is what you want to record in your narrative in detail.


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Essay Instructions: Course: English Composition II

Topic: Search paper is on - (Childhood Obesity in Kentucky)

Formal Sentence Outline

Purpose:

The purpose of the Formal Sentence Outline is to help you organize, design, and outline your final Research Paper for this course. Now that you have researched your topic and composed a review of literature that demonstrates your understanding of the conversation surrounding your topic, you are ready to begin fleshing out your paper?one section at a time. (introduction, body, conclusion, and abstract),

Description: I really need help with this project

In this 300-500-word, Formal Sentence Online, you will organize and outline the project that you intend to write about for your final Research Paper.

Your Formal Sentence Outline should also include a list of references in APA style and should adhere to APA convention throughout for in-text citation and style.

Elements:


1. Cover page and APA formatting:

You should include an APA-style cover page for your Formal Sentence Outline. See the example on page 16 of The CSU APA Guide (6th edition). Your cover page should include the following: the title, your name, and the name of your university (Columbia Southern University). The running head should include up to 50 characters from the title of the paper, along with a sequential page number in the upper right-hand corner.

The entire outline should be double-spaced throughout, without additional spaces between sections.

2. Thesis: My current Thesis Statement:

The epidemic of childhood obesity in the state of Kentucky. Childhood obesity is a
serious condition that occurs when a child?s weight exceeds what would be regarded
as the normal weight for their height and age. We must address the issue of
childhood obesity and commit to an action plan to fix this epidemic in my state.

Note: please add your thoughts to my thesis statement and make recommendations
as required.

The thesis statement should be provided at the beginning of the outline, and it should be labeled ?Thesis,? followed by a colon. The thesis statement should be an argumentative statement that embodies the argument of your paper.

When writing your outline, make certain that every topic and subtopic is written as a complete sentence. Additionally, it is required to include in-text citations within your outline. For instance, one of your subtopics may be a direct quote; therefore, you would place an in-text citation at the closing of the sentence just as you would do if it were written in essay form. For example:

I. Hybrid vehicles are far inferior to our country?s available technology.
A. Electric cars are more energy efficient and do not have tailpipe pollutants.
1. Nissan CEO, Carlos Ghosn (2008), states, ?I want a pure electric car. I don't want a range extender that still uses oil. That is unsustainable? (para. 2).

Furthermore, any in-text citation will also have a correlating reference entry listed on the reference page. For this outline, you will only reference the sources, which have in-text citations to match (in the outline).

3. Headings and subheadings: This is only an example paper outline. Again, my paper is on childhood obesity program in the state of Kentucky.

You must include at least four headings in your outline, indicated by Roman numerals (I, II, III, IV). Each of these headings must have at least two subheadings, indicated by capital letters (A, B, C). The best outlines will break down these subheadings into topics, indicated with numerals (1, 2, 3). A framework for an outline might look like the following.
Thesis: Hydrogen cars might be the future?s best hope for an environment-friendly family vehicle, but the unstable nature of the hydrogen that powers them is not worth the risk of personal injury.

I. There have been a number of alternative cars designed in the last decade, but none that are as efficient as the hydrogen models. (Heading)
II.
A. Efficiency for alternative car models means production costs do not exceed the financial strain of consumers. (Subheading)

1. Hybrid cars are not as efficient as electric cars. (Topic)
2. Electric cars place undue energy demands on society. (Topic)
B. Subheading 1.2
1. Topic
2. Topic

III. Heading II
A. Subheading 2.1
1. Topic
2. Topic
B. Subheading 2.2
1. Topic
2. Topic
C. Subheading 2.3
1. Topic
2. Topic

IV. Heading III
A. Subheading 3.1
1. Topic
2. Topic
3. Topic
B. Subheading 3.2
1. Topic
2. Topic

V. Heading IV
A. Subheading 4.1
1. Topic
2. Topic
B. Subheading 4.2
1. Topic
2. Topic
3. Topic

4. References:

Include a references list as the last page of the paper. Be sure that all in-text citations have a corresponding reference citation.

I have attached my list of references used so far in the project to include my short research proposal, annotated bibliography and review of literature papers. As you continue to assist me in writing this paper try not to use .com websites. Please refer to .gov, .edu or .org. websites.

Thanks

Essay Instructions: This is a sociology study
Structional-Functionalism Theory
What are you, poor?

My project is about childhood hunger. The purpose of this project is to describe and show how poverty, hunger, and lack of education all play a role in childhood hunger.

I want to show the link between low income, nutrition and education all play roles in children?s lives in the long run.


I expect that lower income leads to children going to school hungry. Also, the fact that the parents have a lower level of education this leads to less nutritious meals. All of this inadvertently related to lower grades in school and childhood obesity. As well, the stigma the child will now hold, due to being obese and the poor experiences at school. I want to show the link between these topics and how they are all correlated and integrated.

I am going to look at these perspectives from the macro level. How does childhood hunger and nutrition relate to poor socio-economical status?


The focus of this paper is show how structural -functionalism theory is applied to this topic




Refrences

http://www.alliancetoendhunger.org/documents/NAHORoadmaptoEndChildhoodHungerlo-res.pdf



http://www.mealexchange.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=40&Itemid=74



http://catspaw.its.queensu.ca/bitstream/1974/1223/7/EMP%20Final%20Determinants%20single.pdf