Healthy Nutrition Class Policy 3

Please use 5 scholarly articles as references.
What is a scholarly resource?
A. A scholarly resource is one which comes from a professional, peer-reviewed publication (e.g., journals and government reports such as FDA, CDC).
• Contains references for sources cited.
• Written by a professional or scholar in the field and indicates credentials of the author(s)
• Is no more than 5 years old for clinical or research articles
• Inlcude DOI with references
Students are to select a policy issue (Healthy Nutrition Class Policy), research the issue including policy analysis, plan the policy, and plan a call or meeting with a policymaker for the purpose of presenting the issue, proposing recommendations and asking questions about how change can occur. The student will reflect on the experience, develop plans for follow-up with the policymaker as needed, and consider ways in which advocacy efforts can continue. Over the past several decades, the prevalence of overweight and obesity in children has increased considerably. Obesity is a solemn disease. It can be caused by genes, medical problems or bad lifestyle eating habit. As a result, there are some lifestyle measures to preventing these kids from starting on the wrong track. I would like to communicate with my local mayor or local officials and encourage them to initiate healthy nutrition classes from grade 3 to grade 12 to all school children in my local area yearly. I believe the earlier we can start introducing these kids to healthy diet and exercise, the more likely these kids will stay fit and decrease their chances of Diabetes, HTN and high cholesterol later in their lives. I will use incrementalism model that will allow me to use step by step to enhance these kids understanding of the importance of good nutritional habit (Mason and Leavitt). As the children grow with each grade level, the nutrient class gets more challenging and start to incorporate the importance of regular exercising. P

1. An actual policymaker visit is required but the student can choose to do this an in-person meeting with the Mayor Wayne Messam for the city of Miramar, Florida
2. Describe your call/visit, include your presentation, and discuss your presentation as it occurred.
3. What was the response of the policymaker(s) to your call/visit? What suggestions and feedback did you receive? How would you define success?
4. What’s the next step in this process? What would be your follow-up plan? Do you need to take further immediate action? What about a formal ‘thank-you’? What ideas for continued and future advocacy do you have? Please review the example provided in the Planning Your Visit Ungraded Worksheet 2.
5. What might you do differently? Why? How? What worked or did not work in your strategy or message? Please support this with evidence.
6. What new insights do you have about your policy issue? Relate this to your initial policy analysis as discussed in Your Policy Priority Paper. Describe with specifics, including references.
7. What new insights do you have about the political and policymaking processes as a result of this experience? Please include references.
8. Is there a possibility of future opportunities as a result of this planned visit? If so, describe. How was this experience important to nursing?

After completing Policymaker, develop an electronic presentation to describe, analyze, and reflect upon your policymaking visit. Include 5 slides from the PowerPoint presentation that you would have used during an actual policymaker visit. Include a minimum of five (5) classic or current references within the past 5 years that specifically support insights gained regarding your policy issue and the policymaking process.

Please start slides with (1) Visit Description (2) Policymaker Response (3) Reflection On Process (4) Future Opportunities and (5) Conclusion
1. Visit Description: Clearly describes the policymaking visit (includes no more than 5 slides from actual presentation)
2. Policymaker Response: Slides and speaker notes discuss response of policymaker to your message/ask/recommendation(s).
3. Reflections on Process: Reflections on process (including supportive evidence), follow-up, and insights gained (issue and process) are clearly described in slide and speaker notes
4. Future Opportunities: Describe possible future opportunities as a result of this meeting and their importance to nursing.
5. Conclusion: Concluding statements summarize content in a clear and articulated manner.
6. APA format: Slides, speaker notes, and references are completely are free from APA errors throughout.
7. Presentation/Writing: Slide and speaker notes content are accurate. Presentation slides are professional in appearance and tone. Rules of grammar, spelling, word usage, and punctuation are consistent with formal written work. Balance among space, words/graphics, and color is effective.