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NURSING 257 - EXAM 1 - NURSING –
OVERVIEW QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS 100%
CORRECT
Question: What is the definition of nursing?
Answer: ✔✔ The protection, promotion, and optimization of health and
abilities; prevention of illness and injury; alleviation of suffering through the
diagnosis and treatment of human response; and advocacy in the care of
individuals, families, communities, and populations.
Question: What are the 4 metaparadigms (meta-concepts) of nursing?
Answer: ✔✔ Person/Patient/Client, Health, Environment, and Nursing.
Question: Define the meta-concept of Patient/Client:
Answer: ✔✔ The recipient of nursing care, including individuals, families,
groups, communities, and populations.
Question: Define the meta-concept of Health:
Answer: ✔✔ A dynamic state of well-being and functional status
(encompassing emotional, spiritual, social, and physical dimensions), not
merely the absence of disease.


Health/wellness- illness continuum
measure wellness to premature death (center is clients normal state of health




environment
physical and social determinants of health

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