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Patho - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔disease
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Pathophysiolgy - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔is the study of |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



the disease in process
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Physiology - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Study of function
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Top 10 causes of death - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔-heart
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disease |\




- cancer
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- stroke
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- COPD
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- Accidents
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- DM
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- Alzheimer's disease
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- Influenza and pneumonia
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- Kidney disease
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- Septicemia
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,Roles of the nurse - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔- Prevention
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of disease|\




- Early case findings
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- Minimizing impact of illness
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- Promoting healing and preventing more problems
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- Maximizing patients potential
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Why nurse study disease?- so that nurses can: - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔- Prevent
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- Identify
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- Respond
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- Reduce
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- Redirect disease burden
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disease vocabulary describes - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔who, what, when , where and how |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\




Pathogenesis - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔is the sequence of |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



cellular and tissue events that take place from time of
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initial contact with etiologic agent until the ultimate
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expression of disease. |\ |\ |\




- describes how the disease evolves
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,etiology - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔is what sets the disease
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in motion
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idiopathic - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔no known cause |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\




risk factors - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔are the contribution
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that increase the chances that a certain disease will occur
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Common risk factors - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔- Age
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- Alcohol use
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- Drug abuse
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- Ethnicity
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- SMOKING
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- Exposure (toxins, etc.)
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- Gender
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- Genetics
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- Isolation, loneliness
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- POVERTY
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- POOR HYGEINE
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- SEXUAL PRACTICES
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- INADEQUATE SLEEP
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- STRESS
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, - POOR NUTRITION
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What does the nurse do? - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔educate
motivate |\




facilitate


disease - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔IS AN INTERRUPTION,
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CESSATION OR DISORDER OF A BODY SYSTEM OR ORGAN |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



STRUCTURE. ABNORMAL FUNCTIONING OCCURS |\ |\ |\




illness - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔BEST REFERS TO THE
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FEELINGS THAT MIGHT COME WITH HAVING A DISEASE; IT
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IS THE SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCE
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stages of disease and illness - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔subclinical or pre-clinical |\ |\




prodromal
clinical


sub-clinical or pre-clinical stage - CORRECT ANSWERS |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



✔✔IS THE STAGE WHERE THE DISEASE IS PRESENT, BUT
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THE PATIENT IS UNAWARE
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