FUNDAMENTALS OF NURSING CARE 4TH
EDITION CHAP 7 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
1. A person with severe congestive heart failure is in a favorable
environment with family, caregivers, needed medications,
appropriate diet, and regular Healthcare provider visits. How would
this person be identified on Dunn's grid?: protected poor health
2. health literacy: The ability of individuals to understand basic health information and to use
it to make good decisions about their health
3. healthy people! 2030: program that promotes health in the United States. Science-Based
health goals and objectives to improve national health and prevent disease
4. acute illness: strikes suddenly, lasts for limited time
5. chronic illness: 6 months or longer, intensifying or improving symptoms, periods of
remissions
6. prodromal phase: when people don't feel good, The period before symptoms
7. symptomatic phase: when observable symptoms develop
8. seeking help phase: when people seek help from a medical practitioner
9. dependency phase: when a person relies on others for diagnosis and treatment
10. recovery phase: when a person regains Independence and has regained health
11. risk factor: contributes to the development of an illness or disease: physiological,
psychological, genetic elements, and/ or environmental elements
12. modifiable alterations: lifestyle and nutrition
13. Non-Modifiable: heredity, age, and sex assigned at birth
14. Stress: non specific response of the body to any demand made on it
15. Adaptation: the ability to positively adjust to changes that occur in an individual's
world
16. coping strategies: The actions people use to combat stress
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EDITION CHAP 7 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
1. A person with severe congestive heart failure is in a favorable
environment with family, caregivers, needed medications,
appropriate diet, and regular Healthcare provider visits. How would
this person be identified on Dunn's grid?: protected poor health
2. health literacy: The ability of individuals to understand basic health information and to use
it to make good decisions about their health
3. healthy people! 2030: program that promotes health in the United States. Science-Based
health goals and objectives to improve national health and prevent disease
4. acute illness: strikes suddenly, lasts for limited time
5. chronic illness: 6 months or longer, intensifying or improving symptoms, periods of
remissions
6. prodromal phase: when people don't feel good, The period before symptoms
7. symptomatic phase: when observable symptoms develop
8. seeking help phase: when people seek help from a medical practitioner
9. dependency phase: when a person relies on others for diagnosis and treatment
10. recovery phase: when a person regains Independence and has regained health
11. risk factor: contributes to the development of an illness or disease: physiological,
psychological, genetic elements, and/ or environmental elements
12. modifiable alterations: lifestyle and nutrition
13. Non-Modifiable: heredity, age, and sex assigned at birth
14. Stress: non specific response of the body to any demand made on it
15. Adaptation: the ability to positively adjust to changes that occur in an individual's
world
16. coping strategies: The actions people use to combat stress
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