CANS EXAM 1 PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS 100% PASS
General Systems Theory- Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1936) - ✔✔A common framework for studying several
similar disciplines would allow scientists and scholars to organize and communicate findings, making it
easier to build on the work of others.
Components of Systems - ✔✔-Input: material that enters a system
-Throughput: processes a system uses to convert material
-Output: end result or product of the system
-Evaluation: measures the success or failure of the output
-Feedback: information given back into the system to determine whether the purpose or end result of the
system has been achieved
Hospital as a System - ✔✔The success of the hospital depends on the functioning of many subsystems
First: The whole is different from and greater than the sum of its parts (its subsystems).
Second: Synergy occurs when all the various subsystems work together to create a result that is not
independently achievable.
Supra-system - ✔✔The larger environment outside the system
An OPEN system - ✔✔promotes the exchange of matter, energy, and information with other systems and
the environment.
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,A CLOSED system - ✔✔does not interact with other systems or with the surrounding environment
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - ✔✔1) Physiologic needs - food, oxygen, rest, activity, shelter, and sexual
expression
2) Physical and psychological safety and security - reasonably predictable environment with which one
has some familiarity and relative freedom from fear and chaos
3) Love and belonging - close intimate relations, social relations, a place in the social structure
4) Self-esteem - need to feel self-worth, self-respect, and self-reliance
5) Self actualization - realized maximum potential
Various environmental systems: - ✔✔family, cultural, social, poverty, community/gloabl
WHO's definition of health: - ✔✔a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not
merely the absence of disease or infirmity
Healthy People 2020 - ✔✔addresses a small set of health issues that are significant threats to the health
and the public.
26 leading health indicators. These indicators are organized into 12 topic areas on quality of life, healthy
behaviors, and healthy human development across the life span.
Health Beliefs Model
Rosenstock (1966, 1990) - ✔✔= "why some people change their health behaviors while others do not."
Three components:
1. An evaluation of one's vulnerability to a condition and the seriousness of that condition
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, 2. An evaluation of how effective the health maintenance behavior might be
3. The presence of a trigger event that precipitates the health maintenance behavior
Self-Efficacy Concept
Bandura (1997) - ✔✔Self-efficacy is the belief in oneself as having the ability to modify behavior
Four components for effective lifestyle change:
1) Information
2) Skill development
3) Skill enhancement through guided practice and feedback
4) Creating social supports for change
Also described a type of socialization, modeling, which is useful when learning any new behavior (1977).
Locus of control: - ✔✔People tend to be influenced by either internal or external view of control.
-Health is internally controlled. Belief that health is controlled by what they themselves do.
OR
-Health is externally controlled. Belief that health is determined by outside factors.
Holistic nursing care: - ✔✔nourishes the whole person - the body, mind, and spirit.
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ANSWERS 100% PASS
General Systems Theory- Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1936) - ✔✔A common framework for studying several
similar disciplines would allow scientists and scholars to organize and communicate findings, making it
easier to build on the work of others.
Components of Systems - ✔✔-Input: material that enters a system
-Throughput: processes a system uses to convert material
-Output: end result or product of the system
-Evaluation: measures the success or failure of the output
-Feedback: information given back into the system to determine whether the purpose or end result of the
system has been achieved
Hospital as a System - ✔✔The success of the hospital depends on the functioning of many subsystems
First: The whole is different from and greater than the sum of its parts (its subsystems).
Second: Synergy occurs when all the various subsystems work together to create a result that is not
independently achievable.
Supra-system - ✔✔The larger environment outside the system
An OPEN system - ✔✔promotes the exchange of matter, energy, and information with other systems and
the environment.
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,A CLOSED system - ✔✔does not interact with other systems or with the surrounding environment
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - ✔✔1) Physiologic needs - food, oxygen, rest, activity, shelter, and sexual
expression
2) Physical and psychological safety and security - reasonably predictable environment with which one
has some familiarity and relative freedom from fear and chaos
3) Love and belonging - close intimate relations, social relations, a place in the social structure
4) Self-esteem - need to feel self-worth, self-respect, and self-reliance
5) Self actualization - realized maximum potential
Various environmental systems: - ✔✔family, cultural, social, poverty, community/gloabl
WHO's definition of health: - ✔✔a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not
merely the absence of disease or infirmity
Healthy People 2020 - ✔✔addresses a small set of health issues that are significant threats to the health
and the public.
26 leading health indicators. These indicators are organized into 12 topic areas on quality of life, healthy
behaviors, and healthy human development across the life span.
Health Beliefs Model
Rosenstock (1966, 1990) - ✔✔= "why some people change their health behaviors while others do not."
Three components:
1. An evaluation of one's vulnerability to a condition and the seriousness of that condition
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, 2. An evaluation of how effective the health maintenance behavior might be
3. The presence of a trigger event that precipitates the health maintenance behavior
Self-Efficacy Concept
Bandura (1997) - ✔✔Self-efficacy is the belief in oneself as having the ability to modify behavior
Four components for effective lifestyle change:
1) Information
2) Skill development
3) Skill enhancement through guided practice and feedback
4) Creating social supports for change
Also described a type of socialization, modeling, which is useful when learning any new behavior (1977).
Locus of control: - ✔✔People tend to be influenced by either internal or external view of control.
-Health is internally controlled. Belief that health is controlled by what they themselves do.
OR
-Health is externally controlled. Belief that health is determined by outside factors.
Holistic nursing care: - ✔✔nourishes the whole person - the body, mind, and spirit.
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