Journal Entry 3

All people need the same nutrients, but the amounts will vary depending on their stage in life, such as infants, children, adolescents, pregnancy, adults, and older adults. For example, a pregnant woman will need to make sure she has a proper diet before, during, and after the pregnancy. A poor diet before and during the pregnancy may affect the health and development of her infant. She will also need to make sure to maintain a nutritionally balanced diet after the pregnancy, especially if she plans to breastfeed her infant.

After studying Module 5: Lecture Materials & Resources, answer the following:

1. Review figure 10-3 Comparison of Selected Nutrient Recommendations for Nonpregnant, Pregnant, and Lactating Women in text and compare the recommended percent allowances for:
   1. Iron – Who (nonpregnant, pregnant, lactating) needs it more and why?
2. Ellen is an 18-year-old single mother of a six-month infant; she works at a convenience store and makes minimum wage. Ellen has limited financial means and needs assistance. Navigate to Floridahealth.gov: https://www.floridahealth.gov/programs-and-services/wic/wic-program-info.htmlLinks to an external site. and share at least two (3) examples of how food assistance programs can help Ellen’s infant and one (1) example of why nutrition is important for an infant – provide a full paragraph.
3. Miguel is a 75-year older adult and has been diagnosed with early macular degeneration. Explain what macular degeneration is and share 2 vitamins or minerals that help reduce progression of the disease.

**400 words, formatted and cited in the current APA style with support from the textbook and the sources provided. 

** No AI, Need Turnitin report.  

Please see Instruction.

1. Choose one of the shared theories presented in McEwen & Willis Chapters 13-18, or identify another from the current nursing literature for review in nursing research. (Note: if you select a theory not discussed in the text, please check with your grading faculty).
2. Access CINAHL and identify two nursing research studies that used the theory in their work (maybe as a conceptual framework, but maybe testing the theory). Be aware that since these are non-nursing theories, much of the research that uses them is from other disciplines.  For this assignment, we are interested in how nursing researchers use them (i.e. select nursing journals).
3. Create an annotated bibliography (if you are unfamiliar with this term, please look it up and an example is also provided here). Focus your notation on how the theory was used for the study – not the process, methods, or findings of the study!!!!
4. Create a reference list and title page (APA)