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What happens if clients have low health literacy? - Answer-- Can be a barrier to seeking
health services or result in improper use of the ER
- Prevent clients from primary and secondary prevention. Skips straight to tertiary.
- Misunderstanding of info
What are the eight components of the expanded chronic care model? - Answer-- Health
system and community
- Self-management/personal skills
- Delivery system design/re-orient health services
- Decision support
- Information systems
- Healthy public policy
- Supportive environments
- Community action
What is the scope of growth and development? - Answer-- Physical/physiological
- Motor
- Cognitive
- Communication
- Social/emotional
- Adaptive
What is assimilation in Piaget's theory? - Answer-The process of making sense of new
information in comparison to what is already known
What is accommodation in Piaget's theory? - Answer-The process of adapting ways of
thinking to a new experience or new information acquired.
Kohlberg's theory of moral development - Answer-A person's moral development cannot
advance if their cognitive development does not advance as well
Freud's psychoanalytic model of personality development - Answer-Mature adults have
a strong sense of conscience that allows for the experience of pleasure within the
boundaries of society
Erikson's theory of eight stages of life - Answer-Theorized that there are eight stages of
development. At each stage there is a particular task that needs to be accomplished
before moving on.
Each task is framed with opposing conflicts that the person must balance.
What is Erikson's stage for old age (65+)? - Answer-Integrity vs despair
, MD/NP - Answer-Can make medical diagnoses
What does a nursing diagnosis look like? - Answer-- Describes health care problems via
clinical judgment
- Diagnoses actual and potential health problems within the domain of nursing
Upstream thinking - Answer-Beyond the individual... more big picture
Midstream thinking - Answer-Policies intended for regional, local, community or
organizational entities
Downstream thinking - Answer-Individual stance, negates viewing the influences of
sociopolitical, economic and/or environmental circumstances
Refinement - Answer-A change from simple to complex
What are risk factors for growth and development? - Answer-Person = genetic, natural
factors such as heredity and temperament
Lives = Environmental factors such as family, peers, health environment, nutrition, rest,
etc etc
Interaction = intersecting factors such as life experiences, prenatal health and state of
health
Population health - Answer-The health outcomes of a population as measured by the
determinants of health and health status indicators
What is the scope of population health? - Answer-- Health promotion
- Illness and injury prevention
- Epidemiology
- Chronic disease management
What are the three levels of prevention? - Answer-primary, secondary, tertiary
Epidemiology - Answer-The study of the distribution and determinants fo health related
states or events (including disease)
Epidemiological triad - Answer-agent, host, environment
Chain of infection - Answer-Infectious agent/pathogen --> reservoir/source for growth --
> portal of exit from reservoir --> mode of transmission --> portal of entry to host -->
susceptible host
Web of causation - Answer-Recognizes the complex interrelationships of many factors
interacting, sometimes in subtle ways, to increase or decrease the risk for disease