NUR 111- Unit 1 (Health, Illness, Wellness)
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1. Nursing involves an individual and in an holistic way
viewing the client
as
2. Homeostasis tendency of the body to maintain a state of balance or equilibrium while constantly
changing
3. Categories of physiological, safety, love, self-esteem, and self- actualization
Maslow's hierar-
chy
4. Wellness Contin- measures perceived level of illness
uum
5. Individual re- pain threshold, grief
sponse to health,
wellness, and ill-
ness
6. Components of physical, social, emotional, intellectual, environmental, spiritual, occupational
Wellness
7. acute illness quick onset, short recovery
8. chronic illness slow onset, long recovery
9. remission Partial or complete disappearance of symptoms of disease.
10. exacerbation An increase in the severity of a disease or symptoms
11. health presence or absence of a disease
12. physiological ef- pupils dilate, sweat production, heart rate increases, skin pale, water retention,
fects of stress respirations increase
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