NUR1023 Unit 2 Key Points 2026–2027 | Nursing Study Guide
Health - Ans✅✅✅ State of complete physical, mental, and social well-being; is not merely an absence
of disease
Wellness - Ans✅✅✅ Positive state of health that is continually changing
4 main areas for assessing patient and caregiver - Ans✅✅✅ Physical characteristics (e.g., age, nature
of illness, manual dexterity)
Psychologic characteristics (e.g., level of anxiety, depression, self-efficacy)
Sociocultural characteristics (e.g., health literacy, cultural background, economic resources)
Learner characteristics (e.g., individual learning needs, readiness to learn, language skills)
Primary Prevention - Ans✅✅✅ goal is to prevent disease or injury before it occurs
the first line of defense for health and wellness (no health problem and we are preventing it from
happening)
all about teaching and educating. Vaccination is classified as primary prevention
Generally p,rimary prevention is cheaper and easily accessible, unfortunately, access to health care and
healthcare disparities must be taken into consideration.
Secondary Prevention - Ans✅✅✅ Identify and promptly treat an early state of disease process.
The goal is to cure, or at least limit disability, or delay the advancement of any disease.
, Measures to assist in this strategy are screening tests.
Recommendations for screening tests are based on family history of disease or on any other known risk
factor.
An example of secondary prevention in a pregnant client would be to test for gestational diabetes.
goal is to reduce the impact or injury that has occurred despite primary prevention interventions.
***** Screening across the lifespan would not be the same (infant, child, adolescent, etc.). For example,
a prostate exam is a secondary preventative measure; however, this exam would not be a routine
screening for an infant, a child, or an adolescent male.
KEYWORD: SCREENING
3 Domains of Patient Education - Ans✅✅✅ Cognitive: increasing knowledge
Psychomotor: developing or improving a skill
Affective: changing or influencing attitudes
Common barriers to patient learning - Ans✅✅✅ Educational materials and approaches that are at
too high of a level for the patient's understanding, language difficulties, cultural differences from the
teacher, culturally inappropriate teaching materials
Factors that interfere with motivation - Ans✅✅✅ (e.g., not believing that what is being taught will be
helpful; not believing in the ability to learn the material), and lack of social support for health behaviors
being learned.
Health - Ans✅✅✅ State of complete physical, mental, and social well-being; is not merely an absence
of disease
Wellness - Ans✅✅✅ Positive state of health that is continually changing
4 main areas for assessing patient and caregiver - Ans✅✅✅ Physical characteristics (e.g., age, nature
of illness, manual dexterity)
Psychologic characteristics (e.g., level of anxiety, depression, self-efficacy)
Sociocultural characteristics (e.g., health literacy, cultural background, economic resources)
Learner characteristics (e.g., individual learning needs, readiness to learn, language skills)
Primary Prevention - Ans✅✅✅ goal is to prevent disease or injury before it occurs
the first line of defense for health and wellness (no health problem and we are preventing it from
happening)
all about teaching and educating. Vaccination is classified as primary prevention
Generally p,rimary prevention is cheaper and easily accessible, unfortunately, access to health care and
healthcare disparities must be taken into consideration.
Secondary Prevention - Ans✅✅✅ Identify and promptly treat an early state of disease process.
The goal is to cure, or at least limit disability, or delay the advancement of any disease.
, Measures to assist in this strategy are screening tests.
Recommendations for screening tests are based on family history of disease or on any other known risk
factor.
An example of secondary prevention in a pregnant client would be to test for gestational diabetes.
goal is to reduce the impact or injury that has occurred despite primary prevention interventions.
***** Screening across the lifespan would not be the same (infant, child, adolescent, etc.). For example,
a prostate exam is a secondary preventative measure; however, this exam would not be a routine
screening for an infant, a child, or an adolescent male.
KEYWORD: SCREENING
3 Domains of Patient Education - Ans✅✅✅ Cognitive: increasing knowledge
Psychomotor: developing or improving a skill
Affective: changing or influencing attitudes
Common barriers to patient learning - Ans✅✅✅ Educational materials and approaches that are at
too high of a level for the patient's understanding, language difficulties, cultural differences from the
teacher, culturally inappropriate teaching materials
Factors that interfere with motivation - Ans✅✅✅ (e.g., not believing that what is being taught will be
helpful; not believing in the ability to learn the material), and lack of social support for health behaviors
being learned.
