NURS 3001 MID TERM QUESTIONS &
ANSWERS SOLVED 100% CORRECT!!
Chronic illness - AnswerThe irreversible presence, accumulation or latency of disease
states or impairments that involve the total human environment for supportive care and
self care, maintenance of function and prevention of further disability
What contributes to chronicity? - Answer- degree of disability and altered lifestyle
- a persons perceptions and beliefs about the disease
Disease - AnswerThe pathophysiology of a condition
Illness - Answer- The human experience of a disease
- Lived experiences of the individual and their family
- Resulting impact on a persons life
Chronic disease management - Answer- Managing or prevent chronic conditions
- Intervention or interventions
- Systematic and collaborative approach to care
- Involves the person
- Reducing negative impacts
- Monitoring function
Contributing factors - Answer- Key detriments of health
- Lifestyle
Lifestyle - AnswerIncludes choices made by individuals and recognizes influence of
social, economic and environmental factors
Canadian facts - Answer- 44% of Canadians over the age of 20 are living with at least
1 condition
- 33% of Canadian adults have two or more chronic illnesses
- 3/4 of deaths in Ontario each year result from chronic illness
Economic considerations - Answer- Direct health care costs are around 10.5 billion a
year in Ontario
- There is a large economic burden of chronic disease risk factors (smoking, alcohol,
physical inactivity and unhealthy eating)
Impact of chronic illness - Answer- Older adults
- High-need (5% of patients), High- patients (50% of health care spending)
, - Health care consumer
- Influence of health behaviour
Influence of illness perceptions - Answer- the response of clients and families to
illness
- the coping strategies they draw on
- how they generally response towards their illness
How are perceptions created? - Answer- developed overtime
- molded by their everyday social interactions
- past experiences and culture
Culture - Answer- More than ones race or ethnicity, cultural 'norms'
- a set of explicit and implicit guidelines that individuals use to view the world and tell
them what behaviour are appropriate
- e.g. culture of poverty, culture of cancer survivors and culture of chronic illness
Loss of self - Answerovertime patients with a chronic illness feel their self-image
disappears
Moral work - Answerpatients feeling the obligation to manage symptoms alongside
their daily life
Devalued self - Answerreassessment and a new understanding of self, feeling
revalued by the world
Chronic sorrow - Answer- may be a natural response to chronic illness
- prolonged period of sadness
Interventions - Answer- patients do not need their illness fixed or cured
- patients need professionals to listen and understand illness experience
- evidence informed frameworks and models need to be developed
Best patient outcomes - Answer- Illness behaviour is not deviant
- We need to support patients
- We need to understand lives experiences of the illness
- Best patient outcome is the healthcare professional supporting and assisting through
the illness experience
THRIVE model - Answer- Therapeutic intervention
- Habit and routine
- Relational-social factors
- Individual differences
- Values and beliefs
- Emotional factors
ANSWERS SOLVED 100% CORRECT!!
Chronic illness - AnswerThe irreversible presence, accumulation or latency of disease
states or impairments that involve the total human environment for supportive care and
self care, maintenance of function and prevention of further disability
What contributes to chronicity? - Answer- degree of disability and altered lifestyle
- a persons perceptions and beliefs about the disease
Disease - AnswerThe pathophysiology of a condition
Illness - Answer- The human experience of a disease
- Lived experiences of the individual and their family
- Resulting impact on a persons life
Chronic disease management - Answer- Managing or prevent chronic conditions
- Intervention or interventions
- Systematic and collaborative approach to care
- Involves the person
- Reducing negative impacts
- Monitoring function
Contributing factors - Answer- Key detriments of health
- Lifestyle
Lifestyle - AnswerIncludes choices made by individuals and recognizes influence of
social, economic and environmental factors
Canadian facts - Answer- 44% of Canadians over the age of 20 are living with at least
1 condition
- 33% of Canadian adults have two or more chronic illnesses
- 3/4 of deaths in Ontario each year result from chronic illness
Economic considerations - Answer- Direct health care costs are around 10.5 billion a
year in Ontario
- There is a large economic burden of chronic disease risk factors (smoking, alcohol,
physical inactivity and unhealthy eating)
Impact of chronic illness - Answer- Older adults
- High-need (5% of patients), High- patients (50% of health care spending)
, - Health care consumer
- Influence of health behaviour
Influence of illness perceptions - Answer- the response of clients and families to
illness
- the coping strategies they draw on
- how they generally response towards their illness
How are perceptions created? - Answer- developed overtime
- molded by their everyday social interactions
- past experiences and culture
Culture - Answer- More than ones race or ethnicity, cultural 'norms'
- a set of explicit and implicit guidelines that individuals use to view the world and tell
them what behaviour are appropriate
- e.g. culture of poverty, culture of cancer survivors and culture of chronic illness
Loss of self - Answerovertime patients with a chronic illness feel their self-image
disappears
Moral work - Answerpatients feeling the obligation to manage symptoms alongside
their daily life
Devalued self - Answerreassessment and a new understanding of self, feeling
revalued by the world
Chronic sorrow - Answer- may be a natural response to chronic illness
- prolonged period of sadness
Interventions - Answer- patients do not need their illness fixed or cured
- patients need professionals to listen and understand illness experience
- evidence informed frameworks and models need to be developed
Best patient outcomes - Answer- Illness behaviour is not deviant
- We need to support patients
- We need to understand lives experiences of the illness
- Best patient outcome is the healthcare professional supporting and assisting through
the illness experience
THRIVE model - Answer- Therapeutic intervention
- Habit and routine
- Relational-social factors
- Individual differences
- Values and beliefs
- Emotional factors
