NU 136 EXAM 1: FUNDAMENTALS OF NURSING | UPDATED
ACTUAL | COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT VERIFIED
ANSWERS
• Primary illness -✓✓ANSWER: Develops without being caused by another health
problem
• Secondary illness -✓✓ANSWER: Results from or is caused by a primary illness
• Stages of Illness -✓✓ANSWER: Transition, Acceptance, Convalescence
• Transition Stage -✓✓ANSWER: May deny feeling ill, but recognize symptoms of
illness are present
• Acceptance Stage -✓✓ANSWER: Acknowledge illness and take measures to
become well
• Convalescence Stage -✓✓ANSWER: Recovering after the illness and regaining
health
• Adaptation -✓✓ANSWER: The adjustment or changes in behavior, physiology,
and structure
ie: Exercise and good nutrition when you develop diabetes
• Maladaptation -✓✓ANSWER: Lack of adjustment
ie: "I know I have diabetes now so I'll just take an insulin pump instead of trying to
exercise and eat right"
,• Health Behavior -✓✓ANSWER: Any action taken that promotes good health,
prevents disease, or detects disease in early, asymptomatic stages
ie: watching nutrition, exercise, obtaining immunizations, having regular check
ups
• Illness Behavior -✓✓ANSWER: Ways in which people monitor their bodies,
define and interpret their symptoms, take remedial actions, and use the health
care system.
ie: seeing the doctor and taking prescribed meds after sickness has occured
• Holistic Approach -✓✓ANSWER: Considers biologic, psychological, sociologic,
spiritual needs
• Five areas of need (Maslow) -✓✓ANSWER: -Physiologic
-Safety and Security
-Love and Belonging
-Self-esteem
-Self-actualization
• Examples of stress-related diseases/disorders -✓✓ANSWER: Headaches,
gastritis, asthma, lumbar pain, ulcerative colitis, IBS, allergies, HTN, cancer, sexual
dysfunction, Crohns,
• General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) -✓✓ANSWER: Selye's concept of the
body's adaptive response to stress in three phases—alarm, resistance,
exhaustion.
, • Alarm Stage -✓✓ANSWER: -The first stage of the general adaptation syndrome,
in which the person experiences a burst of energy that aids in dealing with the
stressful situation.
-Hormonal release mobilizes body's defense mechanisms
-Temp increase, malaise, appetite loss
• Resistance Stage -✓✓ANSWER: -The second stage of the general adaptation
syndrome, when there are intense physiological efforts to either resist or adapt to
the stressor.
-If prolonged, responce becomes maladaptive and a pathologic condition can
occur -> "stress related disorder"
• Exhaustion Stage -✓✓ANSWER: -The third stage of the GAS, characterized by
weakened resistance and possible deterioration.
-Critical Illness or death
• Miller-Keane dictionary defines health as: -✓✓ANSWER: A relative state in
which one is able to function well physically, mentally, socially, and spiritually in
order to express the full range of one's unique potentialities within the
environment in which one is living
• Acute illness -✓✓ANSWER: Develops suddenly and resolves in a short time
ie: Flu, Appendicitis
• Chronic Illness -✓✓ANSWER: -Develops slowly
-Can be controlled but not cured
ACTUAL | COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT VERIFIED
ANSWERS
• Primary illness -✓✓ANSWER: Develops without being caused by another health
problem
• Secondary illness -✓✓ANSWER: Results from or is caused by a primary illness
• Stages of Illness -✓✓ANSWER: Transition, Acceptance, Convalescence
• Transition Stage -✓✓ANSWER: May deny feeling ill, but recognize symptoms of
illness are present
• Acceptance Stage -✓✓ANSWER: Acknowledge illness and take measures to
become well
• Convalescence Stage -✓✓ANSWER: Recovering after the illness and regaining
health
• Adaptation -✓✓ANSWER: The adjustment or changes in behavior, physiology,
and structure
ie: Exercise and good nutrition when you develop diabetes
• Maladaptation -✓✓ANSWER: Lack of adjustment
ie: "I know I have diabetes now so I'll just take an insulin pump instead of trying to
exercise and eat right"
,• Health Behavior -✓✓ANSWER: Any action taken that promotes good health,
prevents disease, or detects disease in early, asymptomatic stages
ie: watching nutrition, exercise, obtaining immunizations, having regular check
ups
• Illness Behavior -✓✓ANSWER: Ways in which people monitor their bodies,
define and interpret their symptoms, take remedial actions, and use the health
care system.
ie: seeing the doctor and taking prescribed meds after sickness has occured
• Holistic Approach -✓✓ANSWER: Considers biologic, psychological, sociologic,
spiritual needs
• Five areas of need (Maslow) -✓✓ANSWER: -Physiologic
-Safety and Security
-Love and Belonging
-Self-esteem
-Self-actualization
• Examples of stress-related diseases/disorders -✓✓ANSWER: Headaches,
gastritis, asthma, lumbar pain, ulcerative colitis, IBS, allergies, HTN, cancer, sexual
dysfunction, Crohns,
• General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) -✓✓ANSWER: Selye's concept of the
body's adaptive response to stress in three phases—alarm, resistance,
exhaustion.
, • Alarm Stage -✓✓ANSWER: -The first stage of the general adaptation syndrome,
in which the person experiences a burst of energy that aids in dealing with the
stressful situation.
-Hormonal release mobilizes body's defense mechanisms
-Temp increase, malaise, appetite loss
• Resistance Stage -✓✓ANSWER: -The second stage of the general adaptation
syndrome, when there are intense physiological efforts to either resist or adapt to
the stressor.
-If prolonged, responce becomes maladaptive and a pathologic condition can
occur -> "stress related disorder"
• Exhaustion Stage -✓✓ANSWER: -The third stage of the GAS, characterized by
weakened resistance and possible deterioration.
-Critical Illness or death
• Miller-Keane dictionary defines health as: -✓✓ANSWER: A relative state in
which one is able to function well physically, mentally, socially, and spiritually in
order to express the full range of one's unique potentialities within the
environment in which one is living
• Acute illness -✓✓ANSWER: Develops suddenly and resolves in a short time
ie: Flu, Appendicitis
• Chronic Illness -✓✓ANSWER: -Develops slowly
-Can be controlled but not cured
