The paper must be written using correct APA formatting. An APA paper includes the proper setup, a title page, an abstract, the body of 5 pages of writing, and a reference list. Papers MUST use LEVEL I APA headings.
Students will write a 5-page academic paper in APA format that addresses one of the health behavior issues that was identified while interviewing their volunteer patient. For example, while obtaining your patients health history you may have discovered that they are a smoker, do not get enough sleep, have poor eating habits, are a diabetic who does not monitor their blood sugar, or perhaps they have a sedentary lifestyle. These are all behaviors that may affect your patients health and well-being. In order to affect a healthy change, you will apply Prochaska & DiClementes Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change (TTM) to your volunteer patient as a health promotion activity. The goal is to identify the stage of the TTM the patient is in and design an evidence-based nursing intervention to assist the patient in changing this behavior, which will allow them to the next stage of the Transtheoretical Model.
