NURS 100 FINAL EXAM PRACTICE
FUNDAMENTALS OF NURSING GUIDE
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What is the difference between health promotion and disease prevention?
Health promotion: approach motivated, proactive, increase well-being and
actualize human health potential
Disease Prevention: avoidance motivated, proactive and reactive, actively avoid
illness, detect it early, or maintain functioning within the constraints of illness
What is the primary disease prevention?
1. Prevent the onset of disease
2. Health Promotion
3. Education, counseling, immmunizations
What is secondary disease prevention?
1. Identify and treat patients early or with risk factors
2. Screenings, mammography, lipid profile
What is tertiary disease prevention?
1. Management of patients with established disease
2. Minimize complications
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What is health promotion geared towards?
1. Individual
2. Family
3. Community
4. Nation and globe
Describe the individual part of health promotion
Health is physical, emotional, intellectual, social, spiritual Well being: positive
emotions and life satisfaction
Describe the family part of health promotion
Critical role in developing health care beliefs that follow the individual throughout
lifespan and in giving ongoing support during times of illness
Examples of chronic diseases
1. heart disease
2. Stroke
3. Cancer
4. Diabetes
5. Arthritis
6. Obesity
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What state has the highest rate of obesity in the US?
West Virginia
What are genograms used for?
Helps recognize inherited health/ disease risks, learn lifestyle patterns, and patterns
of illnesses
How do you benefit from community actions?
Pooled resources, information exchange, social support systems, broad media for
information distribution
What is the Healthy people 2020?
It provides science-based, 10 year national objectives for improving the health of
all Americans and has established benchmarks and monitored progress over time
What is the purpose of Healthy people 2020?
1. To encourage collaboration across communities and sectors
2. Empower individuals toward making informed health decisions
3. Measure the impact of prevention activities
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What are the goals of Healthy People 2020?
Attain high-quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and
premature death
Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all groups
Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all
Promote quality of life, healthy development, and healthy behaviors across all life
stages
Describe what world wide health promotion is
Diseases have no borders and are all connected with new ones emerging
Who is the World Health Organization?
Directing and coordinating authority for health within the UN system Provides
leadership on global health matters
Supports countries in their health initiatives and assesses global health trends
Describe ebola Outbreak in West Africa
Transmitted from wild animals and spread by person to person contact
Global Health initiatives
1. Roll Back Malaria