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2026 UPDATE | WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS.
holistic
___ model of care that considers emotional and spiritual well-being and other dimensions of an
individual to be important aspects of physical wellness. The ___ health model of nursing
attempts to create conditions that promote optimal health. Nurses using the ___nursing model
recognize the natural healing abilities of the body and incorporate complementary and alternative
interventions such as music therapy, reminiscence, relaxation therapy, therapeutic touch, and
guided imagery because they are effective, economical, noninvasive, nonpharmacological
complements to traditional medical care.
b
When illness occurs, different attitudes about it cause people to react in different ways. What do
medical sociologists call this reaction to illness?
a. Health belief
b. Illness behavior
c. Health promotion
d. Illness prevention
illiness
____ behavior involves how people monitor their bodies, define and interpret their symptoms,
take remedial actions, and use the resources in the health care system. Personal history, social
situations, social norms, and past experiences can affect illness behavior.
d
A patient at the community clinic asks the nurse about health promotion activities that she can do
because she is concerned about getting diabetes mellitus since her grandfather and father both
have the disease. This statement reflects that the patient is in what stage of the health belief
model?
a. Perceived threat of the disease
,b. Likelihood of taking preventive health action
c. Analysis of perceived benefits of preventive action
d. Perceived susceptibility to the disease.
d
A nurse works in a special care unit for children with severe immunology problems and is caring
for a 3-year-old boy from Greece. The boy's father is with him while his mother and sister are
back in Greece. The nurse is having difficulty communicating with the father. What action does
the nurse take?
a. Care for the boy as she would any other patient
b. Ask the manager to talk with the father and keep him out of the unit
c. Have another nurse care for the boy because maybe that nurse will do better with the father
d. Search for help with interpretation and understanding of the cultural differences by contacting
someone from the local Greek community
d
The patient states she joined a fitness club and attends the aerobics class three nights a week. The
patient is in what stage of behavioral change?
a. Precontemplation
b. Contemplation
c. Preparation
d. Action
b
The nurse is developing a health promotion program on healthy eating and exercise for high
school students using the health belief model as a framework. Which statement made by a
nursing student is related to the individual's perception of susceptibility to an illness?
a. "I don't have time to exercise because I have to work after school every night."
b. "I'm worried about becoming overweight and getting diabetes because my father has
diabetes."
c. "The statistics of how many teenagers are overweight is scary."
d. "I've decided to start a walking club at school for interested students."
b,c,f
The nurse assesses the following risk factors for coronary artery disease (CAD) in a male patient.
Which factors are classified as genetic and physiological? (Select all that apply.)
a. Sedentary lifestyle
b. Father died from CAD at age 5
c. History of hypertension
d. Eats diet high in sodium
,e. Elevated cholesterol level
f. Age is 44 years
a
Which activity represents secondary prevention?
a. A home health care nurse visits a patient's home to change a wound dressing.
b. A 50-year-old woman with no history of disease attends the local health fair and has her blood
pressure checked.
c. The school health nurse provides a program to the first-year students on healthy eating.
d. The patient attends cardiac rehabilitation sessions weekly.
health
the state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease
or infirmity
health promotion model
1. individual characteristics and experiences
2. behavior-specific knowledge and affect
3. behavioral outcome
a complementary counterpart to models of health protection
developmental stage, intellectual background, perception of functioning, and emotional and
spiritual factors
variable influencing health and health beliefs and practices - internal
family practices, socioeconomic factors (social and psychological), cultural background
variable influencing health and health beliefs and practices - external
health promotion
activities such as exercise and good nutrition help patients maintain or enhance their present
levels of health; they motivate people to act positively to reach more stable levels of health
wellness
education teaches people how to care for themselves in a healthy way and includes topics such as
physical awareness, stress management, and self-responsibility; help people achieve new
understanding and control of their lives
illness prevention
activities such as immunization programs protect patients from actual or potential threats to
health; they motivate people to avoid declines in health or functional levels
, risk factors (age, genetic and physiological factors, environment, lifestyle), behavior
modifications (passive and active)
What can patients modify?
passive strategies of health promotion
individuals gain from the activities of others without acting themselves; clean drinking water and
homogenized milk with vitamin d
active strategies of health promotion
individuals are motivated to adopt specific health programs like weight-reduction and smoking-
cessation
primary prevention
health promotion and specific protection
secondary prevention
early diagnosis and prompt treatment, disability limitations
tertiary preventation
restoration and rehab
1. heart disease
2. cancer
3. stroke
4. chronic lower respiratory disease
5. accidents
6. alzheimer's
7. diabetes
leading cases of death in US
precontemplation
contemplation
preparation
action
maintenance stage
stages of health behavior change
1.precontemplation
not intending to make changes within the next 6 months, patients not interesting in info about the
behavior and may be defensive