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NUR 163 Exam 1 Questions and Correct
Answers
Question: Health
Answer: A complex phenomenon that involves physical, mental, and
spiritual aspects
Question: Wellness
Answer: A way of life oriented toward optimal health and well-being.
Question: Nourishment
Answer: Life and wellness require nourishment. Nourishment comes in
the form of food, exercise, sleep, relationships, meaningful work, the
environment, and memories.
Question: A person with an illness rarely describes the illness in terms
of their diagnosis. Instead, they describe the illness as:
Answer: The way it makes them feel. (Pain, sadness, loss, fatigue,
overwhelmed)
Question: Normalcy
Answer: One aspect of persevering in illness and life disruption is
maintaining as much normalcy as possible. Normalcy helps clients cope
with illness.
Question: People who are suffering experience:
Answer: Loneliness. Part of aloneness can be related to the actual
physical separation, part of it from a sense of the world going on without
them, and part of it from a sense of no one really being in their world.
Question: What factors can influence a person's response to
disruptions?
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Answer: Age
Family patterns
Culture
Hardiness
Support
Access to healthcare resources
The stage and nature of the illness and the intensity, duration, and
multiplicity of the disruption.
Question: What is a large and growing healthcare concern, especially
among older adults?
Answer: Chronic illness
Question: Name the top three risks for functional decline.
Answer: 1. Cognitive impairment
2. Depression
3. Disease burden
Question: What are some ways we can ease patients' disruptions as a
result of admission, transfers, and discharge from a healthcare setting?
Answer: Discharge planning, communication, coordination, and teaching.
Question: How does the World Health Organization define health?
Answer: >The World Health Organization (WHO) initially defined health as
"a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not
merely the absence of disease or infirmity" (WHO, 1948).
>In 1986 WHO redefined health as "a resource for everyday life, not the
objective of living. Health is a positive concept emphasizing social and
personal resources, as well as physical capacities".
Question: How does Traditional Chinese medicine define health?
Answer: A balance between yin and yang.
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Question: How does Ayurveda describe health?
Answer: Describes health as the trinity of body, mind, and spiritual
awareness.
Question: How did Florence Nightingale (1859) define health?
Answer: She believed that health was the prevention of disease through
the use of fresh air, pure water, efficient drainage, cleanliness, and light.
Question: How did nursing theorist Jean Watson (1979) describe health?
Answer: She believed that health implies at least three elements: (1) a
high level of overall physical, mental, and social functioning; (2) a general
adaptive-maintenance level of daily functioning; and (3) the absence of
illness (or the presence of efforts that lead to its absence).
Question: Explain how full-spectrum nurses define health and illness.
Answer: Nurses understand health and illness as individual experiences,
emerging from each patient's unique responses.
Question: Identify factors that disrupt health.
Answer: Factors that disrupt health include physical disease, injury,
mental illness, pain, loss, impending death, competing demands, the
unknown, imbalance, and isolation.
Question: Define hardiness.
Answer: Hardiness has been described as developing a very strong
positive force to live—and enjoying the fight. It also involves willingness
to draw on resources from within oneself or from others to break out of
old patterns of living when life situations change. Hardy people seek
information and take initiative in dealing with life situations. They have an
"I can deal with this" attitude.
Question: Explain how you can promote patient trust during admissions,
transfers, and discharges.
Answer: Patient trust can be promoted by supporting patients through
transitions such as admission, transfer, and discharge from the
institution—in helping them adjust to the new environment. Trust is built
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on the relationship you begin building with your first patient contact. You
need to have plans in place and have supplies and equipment already
prepared for each of these transitions. Patient and family teaching are
essential. Greet the client and introduce yourself; keep the patient
informed about what to expect and what is expected of him or her.
Establish a relationship with the client. Take time to get to know your
client. Try to set a tone of caring, respect, and understanding. Coordinate
and communicate with other department and community services to
obtain the care your client needs.
Question: Health Belief
Answer: Characterized by the relationship between what a person
believes and how a person acts
Question: Host-agent environment
Answer: A causative model seeking a source or cause of illness
Question: Holistic
Answer: The unique interaction of an individual's mind, body, and spirit
within the universe
Question: Acute Illness
Answer: Develops quickly and lasts a limited amount of time.
Question: Chronic Illness
Answer: Often develop gradually and can last a person's lifetime.
Question: Primary Prevention
Answer: The implementation of programs aimed to reduce illness by
preventing occurrence.
Question: Secondary prevention
Answer: Aimed at reducing the incidence of illness through early
identification and treatment of illness.
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NUR 163 Exam 1 Questions and Correct
Answers
Question: Health
Answer: A complex phenomenon that involves physical, mental, and
spiritual aspects
Question: Wellness
Answer: A way of life oriented toward optimal health and well-being.
Question: Nourishment
Answer: Life and wellness require nourishment. Nourishment comes in
the form of food, exercise, sleep, relationships, meaningful work, the
environment, and memories.
Question: A person with an illness rarely describes the illness in terms
of their diagnosis. Instead, they describe the illness as:
Answer: The way it makes them feel. (Pain, sadness, loss, fatigue,
overwhelmed)
Question: Normalcy
Answer: One aspect of persevering in illness and life disruption is
maintaining as much normalcy as possible. Normalcy helps clients cope
with illness.
Question: People who are suffering experience:
Answer: Loneliness. Part of aloneness can be related to the actual
physical separation, part of it from a sense of the world going on without
them, and part of it from a sense of no one really being in their world.
Question: What factors can influence a person's response to
disruptions?
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Answer: Age
Family patterns
Culture
Hardiness
Support
Access to healthcare resources
The stage and nature of the illness and the intensity, duration, and
multiplicity of the disruption.
Question: What is a large and growing healthcare concern, especially
among older adults?
Answer: Chronic illness
Question: Name the top three risks for functional decline.
Answer: 1. Cognitive impairment
2. Depression
3. Disease burden
Question: What are some ways we can ease patients' disruptions as a
result of admission, transfers, and discharge from a healthcare setting?
Answer: Discharge planning, communication, coordination, and teaching.
Question: How does the World Health Organization define health?
Answer: >The World Health Organization (WHO) initially defined health as
"a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not
merely the absence of disease or infirmity" (WHO, 1948).
>In 1986 WHO redefined health as "a resource for everyday life, not the
objective of living. Health is a positive concept emphasizing social and
personal resources, as well as physical capacities".
Question: How does Traditional Chinese medicine define health?
Answer: A balance between yin and yang.
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Question: How does Ayurveda describe health?
Answer: Describes health as the trinity of body, mind, and spiritual
awareness.
Question: How did Florence Nightingale (1859) define health?
Answer: She believed that health was the prevention of disease through
the use of fresh air, pure water, efficient drainage, cleanliness, and light.
Question: How did nursing theorist Jean Watson (1979) describe health?
Answer: She believed that health implies at least three elements: (1) a
high level of overall physical, mental, and social functioning; (2) a general
adaptive-maintenance level of daily functioning; and (3) the absence of
illness (or the presence of efforts that lead to its absence).
Question: Explain how full-spectrum nurses define health and illness.
Answer: Nurses understand health and illness as individual experiences,
emerging from each patient's unique responses.
Question: Identify factors that disrupt health.
Answer: Factors that disrupt health include physical disease, injury,
mental illness, pain, loss, impending death, competing demands, the
unknown, imbalance, and isolation.
Question: Define hardiness.
Answer: Hardiness has been described as developing a very strong
positive force to live—and enjoying the fight. It also involves willingness
to draw on resources from within oneself or from others to break out of
old patterns of living when life situations change. Hardy people seek
information and take initiative in dealing with life situations. They have an
"I can deal with this" attitude.
Question: Explain how you can promote patient trust during admissions,
transfers, and discharges.
Answer: Patient trust can be promoted by supporting patients through
transitions such as admission, transfer, and discharge from the
institution—in helping them adjust to the new environment. Trust is built
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on the relationship you begin building with your first patient contact. You
need to have plans in place and have supplies and equipment already
prepared for each of these transitions. Patient and family teaching are
essential. Greet the client and introduce yourself; keep the patient
informed about what to expect and what is expected of him or her.
Establish a relationship with the client. Take time to get to know your
client. Try to set a tone of caring, respect, and understanding. Coordinate
and communicate with other department and community services to
obtain the care your client needs.
Question: Health Belief
Answer: Characterized by the relationship between what a person
believes and how a person acts
Question: Host-agent environment
Answer: A causative model seeking a source or cause of illness
Question: Holistic
Answer: The unique interaction of an individual's mind, body, and spirit
within the universe
Question: Acute Illness
Answer: Develops quickly and lasts a limited amount of time.
Question: Chronic Illness
Answer: Often develop gradually and can last a person's lifetime.
Question: Primary Prevention
Answer: The implementation of programs aimed to reduce illness by
preventing occurrence.
Question: Secondary prevention
Answer: Aimed at reducing the incidence of illness through early
identification and treatment of illness.
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