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Illness and Disease PN 1003- Session 3
2025/2026 Exam Questions and Correct
Answers | New Update



Key Health Concepts - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔functioning, health, disease, illness


functioning - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Levels reflected in terms of performance/social

expectations; loss indicator of need for nursing intervention


Health - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-

being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity


Disease - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Failure of adaptive mechanisms


Results in functional or structural disturbances


Illness - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Subjective experience of individual and physical

manifestation of disease


Evidence-Based Practice - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the conscientious, explicit, and

judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of

individual patients

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integrating individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical

evidence from systematic research


Stress - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the process by which we perceive and respond to certain

events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging


Homeostasis - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔relatively constant internal physical and chemical

conditions that organisms maintain


Stressors - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔specific events or chronic pressures that place demands

on a person or threaten the person's well-being


crisis - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A sudden, unpredictable, and potentially dangerous event


Developmental

Situational


Scientific Knowledge Base stress - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1. Increasing heart rate


2. Diverts blood from the intestines and skin

3. Increases blood to the brain and striated muscles

4. Increases BP, respiratory rate, and blood sugar levels

Fight or flight responses



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