Illness and Disease PN 1003- Session 3
Revision Test Questions Answered
Correct 2025 Update.
Key Health Concepts - Answer functioning, health, disease, illness
functioning - Answer Levels reflected in terms of performance/social expectations; loss
indicator of need for nursing intervention
Health - Answer a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the
absence of disease or infirmity
Disease - Answer Failure of adaptive mechanisms
Results in functional or structural disturbances
Illness - Answer Subjective experience of individual and physical manifestation of disease
Evidence-Based Practice - Answer the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best
evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients
integrating individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence from
systematic research
Stress - Answer the process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called
stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging
Homeostasis - Answer relatively constant internal physical and chemical conditions that
organisms maintain
Stressors - Answer specific events or chronic pressures that place demands on a person or
threaten the person's well-being
crisis - Answer A sudden, unpredictable, and potentially dangerous event
Developmental
Revision Test Questions Answered
Correct 2025 Update.
Key Health Concepts - Answer functioning, health, disease, illness
functioning - Answer Levels reflected in terms of performance/social expectations; loss
indicator of need for nursing intervention
Health - Answer a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the
absence of disease or infirmity
Disease - Answer Failure of adaptive mechanisms
Results in functional or structural disturbances
Illness - Answer Subjective experience of individual and physical manifestation of disease
Evidence-Based Practice - Answer the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best
evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients
integrating individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence from
systematic research
Stress - Answer the process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called
stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging
Homeostasis - Answer relatively constant internal physical and chemical conditions that
organisms maintain
Stressors - Answer specific events or chronic pressures that place demands on a person or
threaten the person's well-being
crisis - Answer A sudden, unpredictable, and potentially dangerous event
Developmental
