Nursing Assignment: Systematic Advocacy for Employee Eating Disorders

This nursing assignment focuses on systematic advocacy for employees with eating disorders in the workplace. It addresses the lack of policies and the impact of unhealthy eating habits on employee health and productivity. The assignment identifies the prevalence of eating disorders, including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder, and proposes health promotion programs and social media campaigns to raise awareness. Stakeholders such as governmental organizations, dieticians, and NGOs are suggested to spread awareness. The paper emphasizes the importance of addressing issues like sedentary lifestyles and work-life imbalance, proposing policy changes, employee consultations, and educational initiatives to improve employee well-being and advocate for their rights. Evaluation methods include questionnaires to gather feedback and identify areas for improvement. The primary goal is to implement system advocacy strategies to benefit employees affected by eating disorders and influence government policies.

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Part A
The systematic advocacy is an aspect that helps to protect thorugh the strategies so that
the rights and responsibilities of a chosen group could be protected. For this assessment the
chosen group and population that has been identified in the task 1 of this assignment as been
selected. The aspect that has been selected for the systematic advocacy is eating disorder of
employees in workplace. As per Bratland‐Sanda and Sundgot‐Borgen (2015), majority of the
employees working in multinational organisations does not follow a healthy and nutritious diet
due to which their health is affected and they are unable to perform as per their own strength and
abilities. Further as per Godart et al. (2015) no organisation has developed any legislation or
policies so that this habit or concern of employees could be addressed. Hence, this concern
related to eating disorder among employees would be addressed.
Part B
a. As per the Victoria State Government (2019), more than 16% of the communities that
are working in different organisations are suffering from four different eating
disorders in Australia. These disorders are anorexia nervosa, binge eating disorder,
bulimia nervosa and other specified feeding or eating disorder (OSFED) (Godart et
al., 2015). Hence, these concerns of the eating disorder among the employees would
be publicly presented through health promotional program and social media
campaigns to make them aware of their health concerns.
b. In this condition, for the advocacy, local governmental organisation, diet and nutrition
specialists and public health planners as well as the NGOs would be selected for the

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healthcare and advocacy of the eating disorder so that the awareness can be spread
throughout the society using powerful and respected sources.
c. As per Agh et al. (2015), due to sedentary work life, improper balance or professional
and personal life, lack of physical activity and improper routine or food and diet are
among the primary reasons due to which people suffer from the eating disorder.
Hence, in this condition proper advocating of this group should be conducted so that
their health concerns could be addressed. Further, in this condition, governmental
policies, company policies and affected employees will be chosen as prime
stakeholders for advocacy.
d. Eating disorder, lack of physical activity, balance or professional and personal life,
lack of proper food and diet regime is the primary concern or issue that is affecting
the client group chosen for this study.
e. These complications that are affecting the employees working in the organisations
could affect the society and governmental policies as it could affect the economy of
the region or the orgnaisations they are working in. as per Fichtner and Seligman
(2016), unfit and mentally unwell employees would not be able to perform properly
due to which with society and community are affected.
Part C
The successful advocacy will lead to the development of healthcare policies for the
employees that are suffering from eating disorder or would develop this condition if not
prevented immediately. In this condition, the affected group of employees will be consulted for
the identification of their issues related to eating disorder due to their improper eating and
drinking pattern while working in organizations. Further, they would also be asked to take

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regular movement breaks and wellbeing messages so that they can focus on their own health
condition to maintain their health and well-being. All the employees would be provided with
education so that they can understand the severity of their health condition and then with their
understanding, they would be asked to take part in the health developmental strategies. Further
all the local governmental authorities and the organizational management would be provided
with the awareness so that they could understand the requirement of such legislation that would
help these employees to focus on their own health with proper professional abilities. Hence this
advocacy would help to raise voice for the employees and their rights so that they could achieve
personal and professional success.
Part D
As mentioned by Dingle et al. (2018) no such corporate regulation and policies are
present in Australia that could advocate for the eating disorder related concern of employees, the
action plan will include arranging meets with the higher authorities of the organization, so that
they could understand the importance of it. Hence, this system advocacy would find the gaps in
the preexisting legislations of the organisation and then would include clause related to eating
disorder for the benefit of the employees so that it could lobby to change these laws to fill the
identified gaps.
Part E
For the purpose for his improvement coordination, all the stakeholders associated with
the process will be asked for their valuable feedbacks regarding the access in the program,
effectiveness of the process and coordination improvement aspects could be collected for the
service satisfaction of the employees of the organization. Therefore, the primary method of the

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evaluation would be usage of questionnaire for collection of feedback and look for amendments.
However, while advocating regarding the process, there are several aspects that need to be
improved as including all the employees in the petition anonymously so that with their
involvement, improvement could be obtained. In such condition, the organisation that should be
recommended with effective interventions and strategies to fulfill the need of the employees
related to their eating disorder so that possible improvements could be addressed.
Part F
a. The primary goal for the advocacy would be implementing the strategies of system
advocacy so that maximum benefit could be provided to the employees and then
provided to the employees suffering from eating disorder. It will broaden the aspect
of the process and government will be forced to think about the important changes
that should be made in this area.
b. It was seen that employees that could be provided with proper interventions so that
they could be provided with effective measures and hence, the people would be able
to achieve their effective measures.
c. This system advocacy would find the gaps in the preexisting legislations of the
organisation and then would include clause related to eating disorder for the benefit
of the employees so that it could lobby to change these laws to fill the identified gaps.

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