Inactivity among teenagers: role of family nurse practitioners

This presentation discusses the role of family nurse practitioners in addressing inactivity among teenagers and promoting a healthy lifestyle. It explores the importance of evidence-based projects and the model for developing them. The presentation also covers the reasons for becoming a family nurse practitioner and the potential factors that can influence positive change. It provides recommendations for addressing inactivity and highlights the AACN Master's Essentials that support this issue.

Inactivity among teenagers: role of
family nurse practitioners

Introduction
• Teenagers in the present generation are leading inactive lives
• More prone to develop different chronic ailments
• Family nurse practitioners can play important role helping the families and
teenagers to alter their health behaviour and live successful lives

Importance of evidence based projects
importance of evidence based projects conscientious utilisation of the current
best evidences that are found to be helpful in making of different
decisions about the care of patients. It is a problem solving approach
towards the various types of clinical practices and this help in
administering issues, which can integrate, following:
• A systematic search along with that of the critical appraisal of the most
relevant evidences for answering a burning clinical question
• The clinical expertise of an individual
• Preferences of patients and their values
• It can be described as the

Model of developing evidence based project
• The ACE star model can be described as the five-step procedure that are
used not only in clinical but also in educational practice. This model of EBP
is often used as it helps by providing a simple yet comprehensive
approach. The various steps that are included are
• Discovery of the main key research
• Conducting of a summary as well as review of the research articles
• It is followed by translation of the studies in the clinical application
• Integration of the changes in practices
• Evaluation of the effectiveness of change

Reasons for becoming a family nurse practitioner
• crucial role in the healthcare system helping in caring for people of diverse
ages and backgrounds
• crucial role in the healthcare system helping in caring for people of diverse
ages and backgrounds
• find pleasure in developing long-term relationships as well as getting to
know people over time
• by being a family nurse practitioner, professionals can manage the needs
of not only the patients but also develop the ability to modify lifestyles,
habits and thinking practices

Increase of activity in teenagers
• teenagers in every household are leading sedentary lifestyles
• students are seen to spend most of their time in studies and get very little
scope for being active’
• Not only, time, they are found to be drained off energy ultimately
preventing them from leading a physically active lifestyle
• teenagers nowadays are seen to be highly hooked to electronic mediums
• teenage children stay within the comfort of their homes and entertain
themselves rather than undertaking physical co-curricular activities
outside

continued:
• social media has been one of the major concerns with facebook, snapchat,
instagrams take most time
• communication and socialisation over the internet through the social
media are more interesting to them
• busy parents might not be able to care and interact with their children
encouraging them to be active
• parents have low health literacy and therefore do not prevent their
children from enjoying sedentary activities
• parents are themselves seen to lead sedentary lives without any physical
activities and children tend to learn from them

Common issue and recommendation
• physical inactivity can cause different long-term negative consequences
• poor intellectual, social, physical, mental and emotional health outcomes in
adulthood
• obesity that becomes the risk factor for various chronic health conditions
• increased stress, anxiety and depression (Urden et al., 2019)
Recommendation:
• recommend a family based education sessions
• taught about the negative aspects of inactivity and how it can affect them
• nurses would provide a brochure to all the members (White et al., 2016)
• nurse would undertake motivational interviewing to develop motivation
among teenager

Internal factors that have potential to change
• The first internal factor that has the potential to change the lifestyle habits
of the teenagers is their internal motivation
• Family nurse practitioners therefore need to conduct motivational
interviewing through which they have to motivate the teenagers in ways
that they get motivated
• Another important internal factor that can result in positive influence on
health is developing health literacy (Blair et al., 2015)
• family nursing practitioners need to educate the teenagers as well as the
family members about the risks associated with their inactive lifestyles
and the impact to would have on the future of the teenager

External factors that have the potential to
influence the change
• One of the external factors is to encourage the school authorities to
incorporate physical activities as important part of the curriculum.
• they should also introduce healthy lifestyle habits as an important chapter
in their curriculum
• Community and social support programs can help in arranging of
programmes that can help every family as well as the teenagers (Kutzleb
et al., 2015)
• The government can also advertise the promotion of physical activities
and its positive impacts on televisions, radios, on placards and even
brochures, policies can be developed

AACN Master’s Essentials that address or
support
• One of the AACN mastered Essentials that the FNP can follow is ensuring
health policy and advocacy.
• the nurses would them advocate about the issues to higher authorities so
that they can take active steps to prevent the issue (Hupcey, 2016)

AACN Master’s Essentials that address or support
• One of the AACN mastered Essentials that the FNP can follow are ensuring
clinical prevention and population health for improving health
• FNP needs to identify the social determinants of health that result in such
inactivity among teenagers like poor health literacy, improper lifestyles
among parents and family members, and many others (Cash et al., 2017)

Conclusion
• Inactivity among teenagers is leading concern in the nation as it can result
in various health complications in future that may affect both their
personal and professional lives
• FNPs should also work collaboratively with schools and communities to
develop strategies by which teenagers can be made active in their daily
lives

References:
• Alligood, M. R. (2017). Nursing Theorists and Their Work-E-Book. Elsevier Health Sciences.
• Barnes, H. (2015, July). Nurse practitioner role transition: a concept analysis. In Nursing forum (Vol. 50, No. 3, pp. 137-146).
• Blair, K. A., & Jansen, M. P. (Eds.). (2015). Advanced practice nursing: Core concepts for professional role development. Springer
Publishing Company.
• Cash, J. C., & Glass, C. A. (Eds.). (2017). Family Practice Guidelines, (Book+ App). Springer Publishing Company.
• Dunphy, L. M., Winland-Brown, J., Porter, B., & Thomas, D. (2015). Primary care: Art and science of advanced practice nursing.
FA Davis.
• Hupcey, J. E. (2016). The socialization process of master's-level nurse practitioner students. Journal of Nursing Education, 29(5),
196-201.
• James, M., Todd, C., Scott, S., Stratton, G., McCoubrey, S., Christian, D., ... & Copp, I. (2018). Teenage recommendations to
improve physical activity for their age group: a qualitative study. BMC public health, 18(1), 372.
• Kaakinen, J. R., Coehlo, D. P., Steele, R., & Robinson, M. (2018). Family health care nursing: Theory, practice, and research. FA
Davis.
• Kutzleb, J., Rigolosi, R., Fruhschien, A., Reilly, M., Shaftic, A. M., Duran, D., & Flynn, D. (2015). Nurse practitioner care model:
meeting the health care challenges with a collaborative team. Nursing Economics, 33(6), 297.
• Lachytova, M., Katreniakova, Z., Mikula, P., Jendrichovsky, M., & Nagyova, I. (2017). Associations between self-rated health,
mental health problems and physical inactivity among urban adolescents. The European Journal of Public Health, 27(6), 984-
989.
• Urden, L. D., Stacy, K. M., & Lough, M. E. (2019). Priorities in critical care nursing. Elsevier Health Sciences.
• White, K. M., Dudley-Brown, S., & Terhaar, M. F. (Eds.). (2016). Translation of evidence into nursing and health care. Springer
Publishing Company.