health - -state of complete physical,
mental, and social wellbeing Healthy lifestyle includes - -nutrition,
exercise, mental health, avoiding substance
abuse, and disease prevention.
health promotion - -health care directed
toward increasing optimal level of wellness
Factors that influence a person's health include -
-family, role models, social pressures, and
health restoration - -tertiary disease self concept.
prevention; rehabilitating and restoring person
Disease prevention is composed of 3 levels: -
malnutrition - -poor dietary practice from -primary, secondary and tertiary
lack of essential nutrients or failure to use
available foods
The roles of practial nurses in health promotion
are - -caregiver, teacher, advocate,
general adaption syndrome (GAS) - - collaborator, and role model.
alarm, resistance, exhaustion
culture - -learned patterns of behavior
fight-or-flight response - -state of readiness passed down through generations
Change in lifestyle or personal habits is values - -deeply embedded feelings that
necessary to - -promote maximal health. determine what is good, bad, right, or wrong
Health maintenance focuses on - - norms - -socially acepted rules and
prevention and then need for early diagnosis and behaviors that guide behavior and interactions
treatment.
folkways - -customs in a culture that
An important goal on the national level is to - determine greetings
-expand health care opportunities and
eliminate disparities.
laws - -written policies supported and
enforced by the government
Health restoration begins after - -the
disease process is stabilized.
mores - -moral issues strongly believed by
a culture
Health restoration aims to - -restore
function or help person compensate for losses.
sanctions - -social remedies for violating
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norms cultural awareness - -learning the history of
a patient's ancestry and appreciating cultural
differences, to understand how patients cope with
symbols - -language, gestures, or objects problems.
that people in a culture use to communicate with
each other
cultural sensitivity - -being correct in
language and interaction to avoid offending
race - -people who share similar physical beliefs and practices
characteristics
Transcultural nursing was developed to - -
ethnicity - -stable cultural patterns shared bring client satisfaction, early recovery, and
by families with the same historical roots meaningful death experience.
transcultural nursing - -viewing patients as Hispanic Americans are the - -largest and
belonging to a world with many cultures most rapidly growing ethnic group in the USA.
Culture is learned in - -the home and Hispanics are from - -Puerto Rico, Mexico,
community. Dominican Republic, Cuba, S and C America.
All groups have - -beliefs and practices Native Americans are the - -4th major
they maintain. ethnic group and made up of 200+ tribes.
Cultural beliefs and patterns - -distinguish Native American families have - -strong
culture groups. bonds.
Race and ethnicity determine - - Native American tribes are organized - -
socioeconomic status. matriarchially but gender roles are flexible in
large extended families.
The primary elements of culture are - -
beliefs, values, norms, sanctions, and symbols. African Americans include - -slave and
immigrant history from Africa.
Ethnicity means that - -people have shared
cultural heritage, race, and geographical area, African American history is similar to that of -
language. -the Caribbean.
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