Select and critique a nursing theory of your choice.

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For this project, you will select and critique a nursing theory of your choice. You will:
1. Write an original paper.
2. Submit it to the dropbox for a grade based on the rubric.

The following are some conceptual models and theories you may choose from; however, you may choose any nurse theorist:
• Florence Nightengale’s Environmental Model
• Catherine Kolcaba’s Comfort Theory
• Dorothy Johnson’s Behavioral System Model
• Hildegard Peplau’s Interpersonal Process Theory
• Dorothea Orem’s Self-Care Deficit Theory
• Ida Jean Orlando’s Nursing Process
• Sister Calista Roy’s Adaptation Model
• Madeleine Leininger’s Theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality
• Jean Watson’s Nursing as Caring Theory
• Margaret Newman’s Health Expanding Consciousness
• Martha Roger’s Science of Unitary of Human Being
• Abdellah’s Patient-Centered Approaches Theory

Discuss how your company’s activities will affect the environment and identify the steps you will take to mitigate any negative impacts.

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◦Hints: If your company is designed as a social venture—in which you have a primary purpose of achieving a social or environmental goal—describe what that goal is and what aspects of your company are designed to reach that goal. Provide a rationale for why you have or why you have not chosen this to be a social venture.
b. Discuss how your company’s activities will affect the environment and identify the steps you will take to mitigate any negative impacts.
◦Hints: As a beverage company, consider such issues as your choice of packaging, disposal of bottles / packages by consumers, and your use of resources, such as water in areas where water may be scarce.
c. Determine any health issues / claims related to the product you are making, whether negative or positive. Suggest the strategy your company will use to mitigate any negative issues, and to ensure any positive claims are true.
d. Many beverage products have negative health impacts on certain segments of a population (e.g., children, pregnant mothers, etc.). Suggest your company’s plan, through advertising, distribution, and / or other methods, to target and reach only appropriate market segments.

Create a 150-250-word tri-fold brochure for the families of children in the chosen age group.

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Create a 150-250-word tri-fold brochure for the families of children in the chosen age group. Be creative and include the following:

Importance of good nutrition for healthy young children;
Consequences of poor nutrition;
3-5 examples of healthy snacks and meals;
2-4 activities designed to teach children proper nutrition;
Two community-sponsored resources for nutritional programs; and
Five online resources about early childhood nutrition
Include citations within the brochure, and a reference section on the back page.
Use 3-5 scholarly resources.

What are the biophysical, psychological, sociocultural, behavioral and health system factors operating in this situation?

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1. Read the scenario below.
2. Respond to the questions in full sentences. Be sure to use standard English grammar and spelling
a. What are the biophysical, psychological, sociocultural, behavioral and health system factors operating in this situation?
b. What actions would you take to provide more sensitive and effective care for women who are lesbian, bisexual, or transgender?
c. Describe the major health concerns of this woman and what role the community health nurse might play in this situation?
Scenario:
Betty is 45 years old, self-employed, divorced three times, and mother of three boys and one daughter. Two years ago, her last husband died of lung cancer at age 54.
She was referred to the local clinic because she has been feeling depressed. During the interview, Betty informs the community health nurse that she is tired of living the old way, and she is now involved with a woman and considers herself a lesbian. She admits that she has been sexually involved with both men and women during the past three years. She indicates that she is afraid she might have cancer because her mother died of breast cancer five years ago at the age of 67. She does not have health insurance. Betty stated that she is embarrassed to get a pap smear because she heard that to gay women do not need get a pap smear since they are not having “real sex” vaginally.