Week 1 PNUR 104 STUDY GUIDE.
Health - Answer✔- characterized by functional stability, balance and integrity
- total well being to strive
Nursing Paradigm - Answer✔Links person, health, environment/situation, and nursing
- to help nurses organize things relevant to the patient
person - Answer✔the individual being cared for and is affected by health
environment - Answer✔- involves family ties
- health care system
- community
- teaches nurses to work in a larger context (with surroundings)
nurse - Answer✔- understanding the patients health, environment and goals
classifications of the health conceptualization - Answer✔1. health as stability
2. health as actualization
3. health as stability and actualization
4. health as resource
5. health as unity
1. health as stability - Answer✔- maintenance of physiological, functional and social terms
- views health as a state, process and homeostasis
2. Health as actualization - Answer✔- the human potential
3. health as actualization and stability - Answer✔- the client's human potential and adapting to
everyday life to maintain the social and physical environment
4. health as resource - Answer✔- fullfilling roles in the environment
- meeting demands
5. health as unity - Answer✔- reflecting the person as a whole process
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wellness - Answer✔- healthy habits (subjective experience)
illness - Answer✔- experience of loss in health
disease - Answer✔- illness of health that is detected by medical science
wellbeing - Answer✔the physical and mental stability of someone
three medical approaches - Answer✔1. medical approach
2. behavioural approach
3. socioenvironmental approach
Medical approach - Answer✔- medical interactions restore health
physiological risk factors- physiological characteristics that are risk for disease
downstream thinking- focuses on individuals health, treatment and cure
behavioural approach - Answer✔- improvements in the environment, less self risks and
knowledge of biological terminology
Lalonde Report - Answer✔identified two main health objectives: the health care system, and the
promotion of good health
- strict biomedical health care system
behavioural risk factors for behavioural approach - Answer✔- unhealthy behaviours
ex. smoking, drinking
Socioenvironmental Approach - Answer✔health is closely tied to social structures. For example,
poverty and unhealthy physical and social environments, such as air pollution, poor water
quality, and workplace hazards, are recognized as influencing health directly.
upstream thinking - Answer✔- tied to socioenvironmental approach
- strategies for health promotion that affects the whole population
different influences on the evolution of health in canada - Answer✔-Jakarta declaration
- bangkok charter
- toronto charter
ottawa charter
Ottawa Charter - Answer✔Build healthy public policy
Create supportive environments
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