Discussion: Nutrition and Dietetics

Discussion: Nutrition and Dietetics

Question Description

Article Review on Malnutrition/Obesity and Improving Outcomes

Research Journal Article

Choose a research article from a nursing/nutritional journal that explores the issue of strategies to improve health related outcomes regarding obesity/malnutrition in our society today. Below are a few suggestions you might considerate to pick from.

This can include:

1. What are barriers to a healthy nutritional status?

2. Rates of obesity/malnutrition in Virginia.

3. Why do people have difficulty in maintaining a healthy lifestyle?

4. What impact can nurses have effecting changes in the health care system?

5. Does preventive care make a difference?

Follow the posted rubric specific to this assignment below.

NURS 460 GRADING RUBRIC

ARTICLE REVIEW

Organization & Structure: 55 Points
Article Assessment: 15 Points
Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling: 20 Points
APA Formatting & References: 20 Points
Paragraphs are coherent and transition smoothly. (20 Pts)
Structure of article review includes an introduction, research, reflection and conclusion (35 Pts)
Article review is no more than 2 pages excluding the cover, reference page. (5 Pts)
Article is researched regarding the issue of health care delivery, outcomes and vulnerable populations. (10 Pts)
Article review has no more than 3 errors in grammar, punctuation and or spelling (10 Pts)
Clear statements, well organized, smooth transitions and sequencing (10 Pts)
APA format, citing, title page, references if used other than article, page numbers (5 Pts)
Selections not older than 5 years (5 Pts)
Must be a research/journal article (10 Pts)

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.