Impact of the Practice Problem at the National Level on Key Stakeholders, Patients, Families, Nurses, Interprofessional Team Members, and Healthcare Organizations

Obesity has, therefore, diverse impacts on the local, national and international spectrum. Directly, it affects nurses, nursing care, and healthcare organizations. Because obesity has severe illness risk, it demands quality care; therefore, nursing demands an enormous change in managing obese patients. Consequently, obese patients get hospitalized for a long time because of their underlying conditions (Hales et al., 2018). Primary stakeholders include patients, families associated with families, health care providers, and the food industry. Secondary stakeholders include; researchers, society, nurses and nursing educators, physicians, and government bodies dealing with obesity, among other accredited agencies. 

Interventions, therefore, can be associated with Kurt Lewin Organizational Change theory. Lewin posits a three-phase model that results in an ultimate change. The principle regarding change is that change is associated with negative and positive changes fighting each other. The three phases include; unfreezing, changing, and refreezing. "Change initiatives need to destabilize the status quo (unfreezing), implement the alternative (changing), and restabilize the environment (refreezing)” (Nielsen et al., 2010). Using the three models to instill change, evidence is significant in inducing change. 

Distinctively, change can be witnessed if we begin with local stakeholders such as the family and the communities because it is at the lower level that obesity can be mitigated effectively. Therefore, to develop an intervention strategy, policies and programs must be made available at the lower level following the Kurt Lewin Organizational Change theory. The first phase, according to Lewin, is to change the status quo, change the assumptions associated with obesity, make them understand the alternatives, and restabilize the environment again. For example, nurses, educators, and dieticians must be associated with the program to bring about specialization. 

To sum, obesity is fully taking shape as a national concern because of the contemporary lifestyle, especially with the immediate pandemics and other situations which require total inactivity. Local stakeholders are key in ensuring that obese people are contained. The role of DNP practice scholar in influencing obesity is associated with specialization and physical therapies. 

References

CDC Overweight & Obesity. (2020). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. http://www.cdc.gov.obesity/index.html (Links to an external site.)

Hales, C., Curran, N., & de Vries, K. (2018). Morbidly obese patients’ experiences of mobility during hospitalisation and rehabilitation: A qualitative                   descriptive study. Nursing Praxis in New Zealand, 34(1), 20– 31. https://doi.org/10.36951/ngpxnz.2018.003

Kff.org (2020). Health Status. Retrieved March 11, 2021, from https://www.kff.org/state- category/health-status/?state=NY (Links to an external site.)