NU 136 Fundamentals Exam 1 (2026/2027) |
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• Primary illness -✓✓Develops without being caused by another health problem
• Secondary illness -✓✓Results from or is caused by a primary illness
• Stages of Illness -✓✓Transition, Acceptance, Convalescence
• Transition Stage -✓✓May deny feeling ill, but recognize symptoms of illness are
present
• Acceptance Stage -✓✓Acknowledge illness and take measures to become well
• Convalescence Stage -✓✓Recovering after the illness and regaining health
• Adaptation -✓✓The adjustment or changes in behavior, physiology, and
structure
ie: Exercise and good nutrition when you develop diabetes
• Maladaptation -✓✓Lack of adjustment
ie: "I know I have diabetes now so I'll just take an insulin pump instead of trying to
exercise and eat right"
,• Health Behavior -✓✓Any action taken that promotes good health, prevents
disease, or detects disease in early, asymptomatic stages
ie: watching nutrition, exercise, obtaining immunizations, having regular check
ups
• Illness Behavior -✓✓Ways in which people monitor their bodies, define and
interpret their symptoms, take remedial actions, and use the health care system.
ie: seeing the doctor and taking prescribed meds after sickness has occured
• Holistic Approach -✓✓Considers biologic, psychological, sociologic, spiritual
needs
• Five areas of need (Maslow) -✓✓-Physiologic
-Safety and Security
-Love and Belonging
-Self-esteem
-Self-actualization
• Examples of stress-related diseases/disorders -✓✓Headaches, gastritis, asthma,
lumbar pain, ulcerative colitis, IBS, allergies, HTN, cancer, sexual dysfunction,
Crohns,
• General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) -✓✓Selye's concept of the body's adaptive
response to stress in three phases—alarm, resistance, exhaustion.
, • Alarm Stage -✓✓-The first stage of the general adaptation syndrome, in which
the person experiences a burst of energy that aids in dealing with the stressful
situation.
-Hormonal release mobilizes body's defense mechanisms
-Temp increase, malaise, appetite loss
• Resistance Stage -✓✓-The second stage of the general adaptation syndrome,
when there are intense physiological efforts to either resist or adapt to the
stressor.
-If prolonged, responce becomes maladaptive and a pathologic condition can
occur -> "stress related disorder"
• Exhaustion Stage -✓✓-The third stage of the GAS, characterized by weakened
resistance and possible deterioration.
-Critical Illness or death
• Miller-Keane dictionary defines health as: -✓✓A relative state in which one is
able to function well physically, mentally, socially, and spiritually in order to
express the full range of one's unique potentialities within the environment in
which one is living
• Acute illness -✓✓Develops suddenly and resolves in a short time
ie: Flu, Appendicitis
• Chronic Illness -✓✓-Develops slowly
-Can be controlled but not cured
-Long lasting
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• Primary illness -✓✓Develops without being caused by another health problem
• Secondary illness -✓✓Results from or is caused by a primary illness
• Stages of Illness -✓✓Transition, Acceptance, Convalescence
• Transition Stage -✓✓May deny feeling ill, but recognize symptoms of illness are
present
• Acceptance Stage -✓✓Acknowledge illness and take measures to become well
• Convalescence Stage -✓✓Recovering after the illness and regaining health
• Adaptation -✓✓The adjustment or changes in behavior, physiology, and
structure
ie: Exercise and good nutrition when you develop diabetes
• Maladaptation -✓✓Lack of adjustment
ie: "I know I have diabetes now so I'll just take an insulin pump instead of trying to
exercise and eat right"
,• Health Behavior -✓✓Any action taken that promotes good health, prevents
disease, or detects disease in early, asymptomatic stages
ie: watching nutrition, exercise, obtaining immunizations, having regular check
ups
• Illness Behavior -✓✓Ways in which people monitor their bodies, define and
interpret their symptoms, take remedial actions, and use the health care system.
ie: seeing the doctor and taking prescribed meds after sickness has occured
• Holistic Approach -✓✓Considers biologic, psychological, sociologic, spiritual
needs
• Five areas of need (Maslow) -✓✓-Physiologic
-Safety and Security
-Love and Belonging
-Self-esteem
-Self-actualization
• Examples of stress-related diseases/disorders -✓✓Headaches, gastritis, asthma,
lumbar pain, ulcerative colitis, IBS, allergies, HTN, cancer, sexual dysfunction,
Crohns,
• General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) -✓✓Selye's concept of the body's adaptive
response to stress in three phases—alarm, resistance, exhaustion.
, • Alarm Stage -✓✓-The first stage of the general adaptation syndrome, in which
the person experiences a burst of energy that aids in dealing with the stressful
situation.
-Hormonal release mobilizes body's defense mechanisms
-Temp increase, malaise, appetite loss
• Resistance Stage -✓✓-The second stage of the general adaptation syndrome,
when there are intense physiological efforts to either resist or adapt to the
stressor.
-If prolonged, responce becomes maladaptive and a pathologic condition can
occur -> "stress related disorder"
• Exhaustion Stage -✓✓-The third stage of the GAS, characterized by weakened
resistance and possible deterioration.
-Critical Illness or death
• Miller-Keane dictionary defines health as: -✓✓A relative state in which one is
able to function well physically, mentally, socially, and spiritually in order to
express the full range of one's unique potentialities within the environment in
which one is living
• Acute illness -✓✓Develops suddenly and resolves in a short time
ie: Flu, Appendicitis
• Chronic Illness -✓✓-Develops slowly
-Can be controlled but not cured
-Long lasting
