TEST BANK FOR BASIC NURSING, 6TH EDITION: PATRICIA A. POTTER

Test Bank 2 Potter & Perry: Basic Nursing, 6th Edition Test Bank Chapter 1: Health and Wellness MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. When planning care you want to use the goals of Healthy People 2010 because these goals: 1. aim to increase the quality and years of life by eliminating the nation's health disparities. 2. increase the life expectancy of all Americans. 3. reduce the percentage of communicable diseases in childhood. 4. identify gaps among ethnic minorities in regard to health promotion and disease prevention. ANS: 1 Rationale for Correct Answer: See page 7. Rationale for Incorrect Answers: The objectives focus on interventions designed to reduce or eliminate illness, disability, and premature death or on broader issues such as improving availability and distribution of health-related information. In the Healthy People 2010 model, individual biology and individual behavior are able to influence health through their interaction with each other and with a person's social and physical environments. PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Application REF: p. 7 OBJ: Discuss the meaning of determinants of health status. TOP: Nursing Process: Assessment MSC: NCLEX: Health promotion and management 2. The health-illness continuum can be used to: 1. define health and illness as absolute. 2. understand the relationships between attitudes toward health and heath practices. 3. compare one patient's health to another patient's health. 4. consider a patient's risk factors when identifying levels of health. ANS: 2 Rationale for Correct Answer: See page 4. Rationale for Incorrect Answers: Health and illness are complex concepts. Health is more than just the absence of illness or disease. Nursing models allow nurses to understand and predict patients' behaviors, use of health services, participation in therapy, and care for themselves.