Day: October 7, 2020

Background Research (3% due midnight October 4th): You are to prepare a brief summary of key information from 3 research articles related to the ways leisure/recreation can be a resource for coping with stress and/or enhancing health and wellbeing, e.g., for promoting resilience, improving mood, enhancing sense of belonging, etc. Prepare a summary of research evidence for each of the 3 articles, that includes summarized key points/facts from the article that provides evidence of how leisure/rec can contribute to student coping, 2
health/wellbeing. Each summary should: begin with the article citation (APA 6th ed format), use bullet points to summarize key points/facts, be approx. 1/2 page, and 1.15 spacing. (See Appendix B Part 1 for grading rubric) (3%)

Background Research (3% due midnight October 4th): You are to prepare a brief summary of key information from 3 research articles related to the ways leisure/recreation can be a resource for coping with stress and/or enhancing health and wellbeing, e.g., for promoting resilience, improving mood, enhancing sense of belonging, etc. Prepare a summary of research evidence for each of the 3 articles, that includes summarized key points/facts from the article that provides evidence of how leisure/rec can contribute to student coping, 2
health/wellbeing. Each summary should: begin with the article citation (APA 6th ed format), use bullet points to summarize key points/facts, be approx. 1/2 page, and 1.15 spacing. (See Appendix B Part 1 for grading rubric) (3%)

Answer the following questions about your assigned article: 1) Please provide reference page 2) Article is provided in the additional materials box.

1) What is the study design and type of the article (descriptive, correlational, quasi-experimental, or experimental)? What is one strength and one weakness of this study design?
2) What is one element that could have been controlled better to improve the validity of the study? (review threats to the four types of validity statistical conclusion, internal, construct, and external).
3) What was the specific sampling method used in this study? Were the inclusion and exclusion criteria clearly explained? Were the sampling method and inclusion criteria appropriate for this study?
4) Was power analysis or effect size (in QuanTitative studies) or data saturation (in QuaLitative studies) reported to verify the adequacy of the sample size?

Recall a clinical or personal challenge that you have faced, such as an illiterate patient or defiant patient. Knowing what you know now about critical thinking, how would you approach the situation differently?
How might you have approached it when you were less experienced?

Include two, scholarly, in-text references.  One must be from your assigned text. Conceptual Foundations (2020)

Friberg, E. E. (2020). Conceptual foundations: The bridge to professional nursing practice (7th Ed). St. Louis:  Mosby Elsevier.  ISBN: 978-0-323-55131-1

Research the health-illness continuum and its relevance to patient care. In a 825 word paper (title page, headers, and references not included), discuss the relevance of the continuum to patient care and present a perspective of your current state of health in relation to the wellness spectrum. Include the following:

1. Examine the health-illness continuum and discuss why this perspective is important to consider in relation to health and the human experience when caring for patients.
2. Explain how understanding the health-illness continuum enables you, as a health care provider, to better promote the value and dignity of individuals or groups and to serve others in ways that promote human flourishing.
3. Reflect on your overall state of health. Discuss what behaviors support or detract from your health and well-being. Explain where you currently fall on the health-illness continuum.
4. Discuss the options and resources available to you to help you move toward wellness on the health-illness spectrum. Describe how these would assist in moving you toward wellness (managing a chronic disease, recovering from an illness, self-actualization, etc.).

Use at least 3 scholarly sources. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is not required.

What is expected: A discussion on the importance of the health-illness continuum in relation to health and the human experience in patient care is presented. The discussion demonstrates that the health-illness continuum is important to patient care. Strong rationale is offered for support. A thorough explanation of the relationship between the health-illness continuum and the ability of a health care provider to promote the value, dignity, and flourishing of patients is logically and convincingly presented. The explanation draws clear connections between the role of the health care provider and the promotion of human flourishing. Strong rationale is offered for support. A well-developed discussion of personal state of health is included. The discussion demonstrates strong personal insight into behaviors supporting or detracting from health and well-being. The author clearly establishes where personal health falls on the health-illness continuum. Options and resources available that would be extremely helpful to help the author move toward wellness on the health-illness continuum are presented. The author clearly establishes how these will assist in moving toward wellness. Insight into wellness as it pertains to the health illness continuum is demonstrated. Thesis is comprehensive and contains the essence of the paper. Thesis statement makes the purpose of the paper clear. Clear and convincing argument that presents a persuasive claim in a distinctive and compelling manner. All sources are authoritative Sources are completely and correctly documented, as appropriate to assignment and style, and format is free of error.