Best Practices for Obesity Prevention

This document discusses the best practices for preventing obesity, focusing on strategies such as limiting unhealthy foods, increasing physical activity, and improving sleep. It also explores the components of a clinically based decision-making model and how clinical expertise informs evidence-based practice. Additionally, it examines how hospitals ensure they meet the needs of the communities they serve and the factors to consider in meeting the six aims of the Institute of Medicine (IOM).

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1. Your perspective on best practices on implementing the project presentation. (project on
obesity)
Obesity is one of the leading chronic disease that has been affecting more children and
adolescents in the globe. According to the statistic, the rate of the obesity among the
children and the adolescents in the United States have doubled since the year of 1990.
The report revealed that 15% percent of the children who are between the ages of six to
nineteen are overweight (Wolfenden et al., 2016). The professionals of the health care are
seeing the earlier onset of the type 2 diabetes as the leading reason behind the increasing
rate of obesity among the adolescents and the children in United States. The longer the
person is affected by obese, the more significant rate the obesity related factor increases
among them. After knowing the chronic disease and the conditions that are associated
with the obesity and the fact related to the difficulty in the treatment of the obesity, the
prevention is extremely essential.
The project presentation related to the obesity basically focuses on the prevention
strategies of obesity which is one of the most threatening disease among the globe. Some
of the best practices to prevent obesity includes the following.
Limited intake of unhealthy foods that includes the sweets, refined grains, potatoes, red
eat and the processed meat. Furthermore limited intake of the sweetened beverages like
sugary drinks is also essential. Increase of the physical activity and the decreased
tendency of taking stress are the essential factors that needs to be implemented for the
obesity prevention. It is furthermore important to limit the television time, the screen time
or the time people uses to sit, and this is because movement and activities are necessary

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towards the abolition of obesity (Dietz, et al., 2015). Improved level of sleep and
improvement from the state of insomnia is an essential ingredient toward the prevention
of the obesity. The project presentation highlights some of the daily activities for both the
adults and the children like having five serving of the vegetables on a daily basis,
choosing of whole gran food like brown rice and whole wheat bread and weighting self
on a regular basis.
2. Describe components of a clinically based decision-making model impacted by clinical
expertise and explain how clinical expertise informs evidence-based practice.
The clinical decision making model is one of the unique procedure that involves the
interplay among the knowledge regrading preexisting pathological condition, explicit
information related to patient, the nursing care and the experiential learning. Historically,
two of the major components of the model includes the information processing model
and the intuitive humanist model. The application and the benefits of the ,model has been
examined in the context of the provision of the nursing care and the outcomes related to
care (Ellis, 2019). With the components there furthermore lies the factors such as the
concerns, unique preferences and expectations. The clinical expertise informs the
evidence based practice with the context of the values and the preferences by the patient.
It is the duty of the evidence based practitioner to combine the understanding related to
the illness, the science regrading the health, and the disease with the art of the adaptation
of the care towards the situations and the individual patients.

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The evidence based practice is basically the integration of the best research evidences
with the clinical experts and the values of the patient. The three fundamental components
of the evidence based practice includes the following:
 The clinical expertise refers to the cumulated education, the experience and the
clinical skills
 The best evidences found in the clinically relevant research has been conducted
by using the sound methodology
 The values of the patient are of unique preferences , concerns and expectations
with each of the patient bringing to clinical encounter.
The application of the evidence based practice with the context of the decision making
model involves the examination, the critiquing and synthesizing of the available setoff
the research evidences. For the clinical expertise from the clinical decision making model
, the effectiveness of the good clinical judgements integrates the accumulated wealth
regarding the knowledge from the experience of the patient care together with the
educational background (White & Spruce, 2015). The five major steps that the clinical
expertise uses includes the formulation of the answerable queries, finding of the best
available resources, appraising of the evidences, implementation of the evidences and the
evaluation of the outcome.
3.
a. How do hospitals ensure that they are meeting the needs of the communities that they
serve?

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Changes in the policies and the regulations have developed the opportunity towards
meaningful collaboration among the system of the health, the departments of the public
health and the social service organizations. For the medical systems and the hospitals,
new requirements include the community health assessments and implementation
strategies for addressing the identified needs of health. Since the medical practices has
traditionally focused over the health of the individuals rather than the entire group of
population, the individuals and the groups in the settings of the hospital are responsible
for meeting the community health assessments and the implementation of the strategy
requirements. This include defining the community and ensuring that the medically low
income, unreserved and the minority populations are included, prioritizing and
identifying the significant needs of the health of the targeted community, obtaining of the
input of the community and the documentation of the process and the findings related to
community health assessments that is available to the public via the website of the
hospital facility (Pennel et al., 2015). The hospital furthermore ensures the development
and the implementation of the strategy that describes how the hospital plans for
addressing the needs of the health. This includes the actions, the hospital facility , the
anticipated impacts of the actions and the plan for the evaluation of the impacts (Gottlieb
et al., 2016). Towards meeting the community needs and proper assess of the health care
facilities, the hospital includes aa in depth review regarding the existing model of health
promotion for the identification of the common steps of the process for meeting the
community needs, systematic identification and the rate of the health tools and provision
of the recommendation while the hospitals embark over the health requirements and the
improvement of work.

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b. What factors should be considered to ensure hospitals meet the six Aims of the IOM?
The analytical framework have guided the measurement of the development
opportunities and the initiatives in both the public and the private sectors.
The six domains put forth by the Institute of Medicine regrading the health care
quality are safe, effective patient centered, timely, efficient and equitable. The data
driven decision making is essential towards the engagement of the healthcare
transformational activities. The factors that should be considered while fulfilling the
aims of the meeting six goals of IOM includes inclusion of powerful analytics together
with the staff, the administration and the clinical engagement with the analytics. The
analytical or the systems of the business intelligence like the QuartzClinical are
designed for the engagement of the organization of health care towards the
transformational nativities provides the tool for benchmark and tracking of the safety
issues regarding the inpatient mortality rates, readmission rates, the post of infection
rates and the length of stay (Salmond & Echevarria, 2017). For the assessment of the
community health care, the hospital can furthermore begin to examine the
compliances with the HEDIS’s Comprehensive Care for Diabetes for measuring via
the factors of the geographical location and race. Improved focused goals and the
patient centered goal are thus the effective factors tat the hospital should consider
while assessing and fulfilling the aims of the meeting six goals of IOM.

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