Holistic Nursing Updated Questions & Answers
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What is health?
Health is a range, it is a state of balance and wholeness that is achieved through the integration of
mind, body, and spirit and is unique to each individual
What is holistic health?
Taking and evaluating the whole of a person
What are the concepts of health?
Viewed in its relation to disease (signs and symptoms), illness (roles), and wellness
What are health conceptualizations?
Describing the dimensions that make up a whole person's life and treating it
What are the 5 classifications of health conceptualizations?
1. Stability
2. Actualization
3. Stability and actualization
4. Resource
5. Unity
What is health as stability?
The maintenance of physiological, functional, and social norms and views health as a state,
process, adaptation and homeostasis
,What is health as actualization?
human potential being realized ex: running
What is health as stability and actualization?
Realization of human potential through goal-directed behaviour, competent self-care, and
relationships with others, while adapting to everyday challenges
What is health as a resource?
The understanding of personal knowledge and intellectual capacities
What is health as a unity?
Reflecting the whole person as a process, and is aware of self-actualization
Ex: getting enough sleep
What are the dimensions of holistic health?
- Feeling full of energy
- Having social relationships
- Having a feeling of control over one's life
- Being able to do things that one enjoys
- Having a sense of purpose
- Feeling connected to the community
What does wellness mean?
Goes beyond having good health; it also considers how a person thinks about their health and
quality of life
, What are the 7 dimensions of wellness?
1. Physical
2. Emotional
3. Intellectual
4. Spiritual
5. Social
6. Environmental
7. Occupational
What does illness mean?
The presence of disease or how a person may feel about their health
What does disability mean and its cause?
Abnormal functions
Ex: physical, sensory, cognitive, intellectual
Cause: disease, accidents or birth
What are the purpose of health models?
Explains the understanding of the experience of a person's health, wellness, illness, disease or
disability in healthcare
What are the 3 health models?
1. Medical model
2. Holistic model
3. Wellness model
Solved 100% Correct.
What is health?
Health is a range, it is a state of balance and wholeness that is achieved through the integration of
mind, body, and spirit and is unique to each individual
What is holistic health?
Taking and evaluating the whole of a person
What are the concepts of health?
Viewed in its relation to disease (signs and symptoms), illness (roles), and wellness
What are health conceptualizations?
Describing the dimensions that make up a whole person's life and treating it
What are the 5 classifications of health conceptualizations?
1. Stability
2. Actualization
3. Stability and actualization
4. Resource
5. Unity
What is health as stability?
The maintenance of physiological, functional, and social norms and views health as a state,
process, adaptation and homeostasis
,What is health as actualization?
human potential being realized ex: running
What is health as stability and actualization?
Realization of human potential through goal-directed behaviour, competent self-care, and
relationships with others, while adapting to everyday challenges
What is health as a resource?
The understanding of personal knowledge and intellectual capacities
What is health as a unity?
Reflecting the whole person as a process, and is aware of self-actualization
Ex: getting enough sleep
What are the dimensions of holistic health?
- Feeling full of energy
- Having social relationships
- Having a feeling of control over one's life
- Being able to do things that one enjoys
- Having a sense of purpose
- Feeling connected to the community
What does wellness mean?
Goes beyond having good health; it also considers how a person thinks about their health and
quality of life
, What are the 7 dimensions of wellness?
1. Physical
2. Emotional
3. Intellectual
4. Spiritual
5. Social
6. Environmental
7. Occupational
What does illness mean?
The presence of disease or how a person may feel about their health
What does disability mean and its cause?
Abnormal functions
Ex: physical, sensory, cognitive, intellectual
Cause: disease, accidents or birth
What are the purpose of health models?
Explains the understanding of the experience of a person's health, wellness, illness, disease or
disability in healthcare
What are the 3 health models?
1. Medical model
2. Holistic model
3. Wellness model
