1. maintenance and promotion of health and illness prevention
2. restoration of health
3. coping with impaired functions - Answers comprehensive patient education includes what three
things?
teaching - Answers an interactive process that promotes learning; consists of a conscious, deliberate set
of actions that help individuals gain new knowledge, change attitudes, adopt new behaviors, or perform
new skills
learning - Answers the purposeful acquisition of new knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, and skills
cognitive learning - Answers all intellectual behaviors and requires thinking; includes knowledge,
comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, evaluation
affective learning - Answers deals with expression of feelings and acceptance of attitudes, opinions, or
values; includes receiving, responding, valuing, organizing, characterizing
psychomotor learning - Answers involves acquiring skills that require the integration of mental and
muscular activity such as the ability to walk or use an eating utensil; includes perception, set, guided
response, mechanism, complex overt response, origination
motivation - Answers a force that acts on or within a person to cause the person to behave in a
particular way
self-efficacy - Answers a concept included in social learning theory that refers to a person's perceived
ability to successfully complete a task
health literacy - Answers the cognitive and social skills that determine the motivation and ability of
individuals to gain access to, understand, and use information in ways that promote and maintain good
health; includes the patient's reading and mathematics skills, comprehension, ability to make health-
related decisions, and successful functioning as a consumer of health care
functional illiteracy - Answers the inability to read above a fifth grade level
reinforcement - Answers requires using a stimulus that increases the probability for a response ex.
feedback
return demonstration - Answers learners have the chance to practice the skill
analogies - Answers supplement verbal instruction with familiar images that make complex information
more real and understandable ex. arterial blood pressure is like a flow of water through a hose
, spirituality - Answers awareness of one's inner self and a sense of connection to a higher being, nature,
or some purpose greater than oneself
self-transcendence - Answers a sense of authentically connecting to one's inner self
transcendence - Answers the belief that a force outside of and greater than the person exists beyond
the material world ex. holding a baby or looking at a sunset
connectedness - Answers intrapersonally (oneself), interpersonally (others), trasnpersonally (unseen,
God, higher power)
atheist - Answers do not belive in the existence of God
agnostic - Answers believe that there is no known ultimate reality
spiritual well-being - Answers two dimensions; vertical dimensions supports the transcendent
relationship between a person and God; the horizontal dimension describes positive relationships and
connections that people have with others
faith - Answers allows people to have firm beliefs despite lack of physical evidence
religion - Answers associated with the "state of doing" or a specific system of practices associated with a
particular denomination, sect, or form of worship; organized beliefs and worship that a person practices
to outwardly express spirituality
hope - Answers energizing source that has an orientation to future goals and outcomes; provides
comfort while people endure life-threatening situations, hardships, and other personal challenges
spiritual distress - Answers the impaired ability to experience and integrate meaning and purpose in life
through connectedness with self, others, art, music, literature, nature and/or power greater than
oneself; causes a person to feel doubt, loss of faith, and a sense of being alone
necessary loss - Answers part of life; death of a loved one, divorce
maturational loss - Answers form of necessary loss and includes all normally expected life changes
across the life span ex. mother feels loss when her child goes to school
situational loss - Answers sudden, unpredictable external events; ex. car crash leaves you paralyzed
actual loss - Answers a person can no longer feel, hear, see, or know a person or object ex. loss of a body
part, death of a loved one
perceived loss - Answers uniquely defined by the person experiencing loss which creates a loss of
confidence or changes their status in a group
grief - Answers the emotional response to a loss, manifested in ways unique to an individual and based
on personal experiences, cultural expectations, and spiritual beliefs