NURSE 299 STUDY GUIDE EXAM 1
QUESTIONS AND ACTUAL ANSWERS.
Values and beliefs pattern - Answer Values, beliefs or goals that guide choices or decisions
cocci - Answer
Smith (1983) describes four distinct models of health in her classic work: - Answer Clinical model
Role performance
Adaptive Model
Eudaemonistic Model
Clinical Model - Answer Health is defined by the absence and illness of disease. With this model,
people may wait to seek healthcare until they are sick. They often don't seek preventative healthcare.
Role performance Model - Answer Health is defined in terms of individuals' ability to perform social
roles. In this model, you are sick when you can't function in your role (i.e., need to miss school or work).
Adaptive Model - Answer People's ability to adjust positively to social, mental, and physiological
change is the measure of their health. In this model a person gets sick when he fails to adapt to change.
Eudaimonistic Model - Answer embodies the interaction and interrelationships among physical, social,
psychological, and spiritual aspects of life and the environment in goal attainment and creating meaning
in life. Those who believe in this model often look for alternative providers of care. (e.g., a person has a
primary care provider and someone he sees for acupuncture.)
Wellness - Answer A positive state in which incremental increases in health can be made beyond the
midpoint. These increases involve improved physical and mental health states.
Health - Answer A state of physical, mental, spiritual, and social functioning that realizes a person's
potential and is experienced within a development context.
, Illness - Answer Composed of the subjective experience of the individual and the physical
manifestation of disease. People are in an imbalanced, unsustainable relationship with their
environment and are failing in their ability to survive and create a higher quality of life.
Goals of Healthy People - Answer 1. Attain high quality, longer lives free of preventable disease,
disability, injury and premature death
2. Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities and improve the health of all groups
3. Create a social and physical environments that promote good health for all
4. Promote quality of life, healthy development and healthy behaviors across all life stages
Nurse's Role - Answer -Advocate
-Care Manager
-Consultant
-Deliverer of Services
-Educator
-Healer
-Researcher
Advocate - Answer Help individuals obtain the care they are entitled to receive through the health care
system. The nurse strives to ensure that all persons receive high-quality, appropriate, safe, and cost-
effective care
Care Manager - Answer Prevent duplication of services, maintain quality and safety and reduce costs.
This role depends on a collaborative relationship among the this role, other nurses and physicians, the
individual and his or her family, the insurance provider and other care providers who work with the
person. Facilitating communication among parties is one of the most important functions of this role
Consultant - Answer Providing knowledge about health promotion and disease prevention to
individuals or groups as this role. All nurses need to develop these skills that can be integrated into
practice and allow the individual nurse to take advantage of the opportunities to provide support on an
individual level or for future development at the organization level.
QUESTIONS AND ACTUAL ANSWERS.
Values and beliefs pattern - Answer Values, beliefs or goals that guide choices or decisions
cocci - Answer
Smith (1983) describes four distinct models of health in her classic work: - Answer Clinical model
Role performance
Adaptive Model
Eudaemonistic Model
Clinical Model - Answer Health is defined by the absence and illness of disease. With this model,
people may wait to seek healthcare until they are sick. They often don't seek preventative healthcare.
Role performance Model - Answer Health is defined in terms of individuals' ability to perform social
roles. In this model, you are sick when you can't function in your role (i.e., need to miss school or work).
Adaptive Model - Answer People's ability to adjust positively to social, mental, and physiological
change is the measure of their health. In this model a person gets sick when he fails to adapt to change.
Eudaimonistic Model - Answer embodies the interaction and interrelationships among physical, social,
psychological, and spiritual aspects of life and the environment in goal attainment and creating meaning
in life. Those who believe in this model often look for alternative providers of care. (e.g., a person has a
primary care provider and someone he sees for acupuncture.)
Wellness - Answer A positive state in which incremental increases in health can be made beyond the
midpoint. These increases involve improved physical and mental health states.
Health - Answer A state of physical, mental, spiritual, and social functioning that realizes a person's
potential and is experienced within a development context.
, Illness - Answer Composed of the subjective experience of the individual and the physical
manifestation of disease. People are in an imbalanced, unsustainable relationship with their
environment and are failing in their ability to survive and create a higher quality of life.
Goals of Healthy People - Answer 1. Attain high quality, longer lives free of preventable disease,
disability, injury and premature death
2. Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities and improve the health of all groups
3. Create a social and physical environments that promote good health for all
4. Promote quality of life, healthy development and healthy behaviors across all life stages
Nurse's Role - Answer -Advocate
-Care Manager
-Consultant
-Deliverer of Services
-Educator
-Healer
-Researcher
Advocate - Answer Help individuals obtain the care they are entitled to receive through the health care
system. The nurse strives to ensure that all persons receive high-quality, appropriate, safe, and cost-
effective care
Care Manager - Answer Prevent duplication of services, maintain quality and safety and reduce costs.
This role depends on a collaborative relationship among the this role, other nurses and physicians, the
individual and his or her family, the insurance provider and other care providers who work with the
person. Facilitating communication among parties is one of the most important functions of this role
Consultant - Answer Providing knowledge about health promotion and disease prevention to
individuals or groups as this role. All nurses need to develop these skills that can be integrated into
practice and allow the individual nurse to take advantage of the opportunities to provide support on an
individual level or for future development at the organization level.
