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Nursing NR222 Exam 1 Health and Wellness
Study Guide Questions and Answers 2025
Health Care Models -Correct Answer ✔Health Belief model
Health Promotion model
Transteoretical model
Holistic model
Health belief model -Correct Answer ✔what the patient believes, perception,
behavior to plan care that is most effective when assisting this patient.
has 3 components:
1) individual perceptions of susceptibility to an illness
2) modifying factors to the seriousness of the illness
3) likelihood of action that a person will take preventative action
Health promotion model -Correct Answer ✔defines health as a positive, dynamic
states, not merely the absence of disease.
passive and active, passive is having awareness but active is doing it and engaging
Focuses on three areas,
1. individual characteristics and experiences
2) behavior-specific knowledge and effect
3) behavioral outcomes, in which patient commits to changes
Transtheoretical Model -Correct Answer ✔Model of behavior change that
identifies six distinct stages people go through in altering behavior patterns; also
called the stages of change model
precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance, relapse
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Holistic Model -Correct Answer ✔encompasses the physiological, mental,
emotional, social, spiritual, and environmental aspects of health
whole body, mind, spirit, natural method of healing like alternative medicine like
music therapy, relaxation technique
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs -Correct Answer ✔the understanding the
interrelationship of basic human needs.
Physiological (food, oxygen, shelter), safety & security (physical and
psychological), love & belonging, self-esteem, self-actualization
Healthy people 2020 -Correct Answer ✔Promotes a society which all people live a
long healthy life road map for improving the health of all people in the US
How many overarching goals of Healthy people 2020? -Correct Answer ✔4
overarching goals
1) Attain high quality of life, free of preventable diseases
2) Achieve healthy equity, eliminating health disparities & improve the health
3) Create social and physical environment that promotes good health
4) Promote quality of life, healthy development and healthy behaviors
Leading Health Indicators of Health people 2020 -Correct Answer ✔11 leading
health indicators
examples
1) access to health care
2) clinical preventative services
3)environmental quality
4) injury and violence
5) maternal, infant and child health
6) mental health
7) nutrition, physical activity, and obesity
8) oral health
9) reproductive and sexual health
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10) social determinants
11) tobacco
Levels of prevention -Correct Answer ✔primary, secondary, tertiary
Primary prevention -Correct Answer ✔are true preventions that lower the chance
to develop diseases. For example healthy life choices, disease prevention,
screening for risk factors
Primary prevention examples:
immunizations
health education
proper nutrition
maternal/child health care
family planning
control of diseases
Secondary prevention -Correct Answer ✔Early diagnosis and prompt treatment
before disease becomes advanced and disability severe. You are actively looking
for the disease
examples:
emergency care
acute med-surge care
radiological procedures for acute problems - x-rays or CT scans
crisis prevention
psychiatric nursing
intensive care
Tertiary Prevention -Correct Answer ✔managing a disease or disability. You have
the disease now you are looking to get back to optimal health
provision of medically related services and equipment to patients and families in
their homes for example:
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Home health
rehabilitation
restorative
respiratory therapy
speech therapy
continuing care in hospice or assisted living
Risk factors -Correct Answer ✔any situation, habit, or other variables such as
social, environmental, physiological, psychological, developmental, intellectual, or
spirtiual that increases the vulnerability of an individual or group to an illness or
accident.
Pre-contemplation Stage -Correct Answer ✔Stage of change in which people are
unwilling to change behavior
Contemplation stage -Correct Answer ✔stage of change in which people are
considering changing behavior in the next 6 months
Preparation Stage -Correct Answer ✔stage of change in which people are getting
ready to make a change within the coming month
Action Stage -Correct Answer ✔Stage of change in which people are actively
changing a negative behavior or adopting a new, healthy behavior
Maintenance Stage -Correct Answer ✔sustained change over time; begins six
months after an action has started and continued indefinitely
Health Variables -Correct Answer ✔influences a patient health belief and practice
through internal and external variables
Internal Variables -Correct Answer ✔developmental stage
intellectual background perception of functioning
emotional factors
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Nursing NR222 Exam 1 Health and Wellness
Study Guide Questions and Answers 2025
Health Care Models -Correct Answer ✔Health Belief model
Health Promotion model
Transteoretical model
Holistic model
Health belief model -Correct Answer ✔what the patient believes, perception,
behavior to plan care that is most effective when assisting this patient.
has 3 components:
1) individual perceptions of susceptibility to an illness
2) modifying factors to the seriousness of the illness
3) likelihood of action that a person will take preventative action
Health promotion model -Correct Answer ✔defines health as a positive, dynamic
states, not merely the absence of disease.
passive and active, passive is having awareness but active is doing it and engaging
Focuses on three areas,
1. individual characteristics and experiences
2) behavior-specific knowledge and effect
3) behavioral outcomes, in which patient commits to changes
Transtheoretical Model -Correct Answer ✔Model of behavior change that
identifies six distinct stages people go through in altering behavior patterns; also
called the stages of change model
precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance, relapse
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Holistic Model -Correct Answer ✔encompasses the physiological, mental,
emotional, social, spiritual, and environmental aspects of health
whole body, mind, spirit, natural method of healing like alternative medicine like
music therapy, relaxation technique
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs -Correct Answer ✔the understanding the
interrelationship of basic human needs.
Physiological (food, oxygen, shelter), safety & security (physical and
psychological), love & belonging, self-esteem, self-actualization
Healthy people 2020 -Correct Answer ✔Promotes a society which all people live a
long healthy life road map for improving the health of all people in the US
How many overarching goals of Healthy people 2020? -Correct Answer ✔4
overarching goals
1) Attain high quality of life, free of preventable diseases
2) Achieve healthy equity, eliminating health disparities & improve the health
3) Create social and physical environment that promotes good health
4) Promote quality of life, healthy development and healthy behaviors
Leading Health Indicators of Health people 2020 -Correct Answer ✔11 leading
health indicators
examples
1) access to health care
2) clinical preventative services
3)environmental quality
4) injury and violence
5) maternal, infant and child health
6) mental health
7) nutrition, physical activity, and obesity
8) oral health
9) reproductive and sexual health
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10) social determinants
11) tobacco
Levels of prevention -Correct Answer ✔primary, secondary, tertiary
Primary prevention -Correct Answer ✔are true preventions that lower the chance
to develop diseases. For example healthy life choices, disease prevention,
screening for risk factors
Primary prevention examples:
immunizations
health education
proper nutrition
maternal/child health care
family planning
control of diseases
Secondary prevention -Correct Answer ✔Early diagnosis and prompt treatment
before disease becomes advanced and disability severe. You are actively looking
for the disease
examples:
emergency care
acute med-surge care
radiological procedures for acute problems - x-rays or CT scans
crisis prevention
psychiatric nursing
intensive care
Tertiary Prevention -Correct Answer ✔managing a disease or disability. You have
the disease now you are looking to get back to optimal health
provision of medically related services and equipment to patients and families in
their homes for example:
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Home health
rehabilitation
restorative
respiratory therapy
speech therapy
continuing care in hospice or assisted living
Risk factors -Correct Answer ✔any situation, habit, or other variables such as
social, environmental, physiological, psychological, developmental, intellectual, or
spirtiual that increases the vulnerability of an individual or group to an illness or
accident.
Pre-contemplation Stage -Correct Answer ✔Stage of change in which people are
unwilling to change behavior
Contemplation stage -Correct Answer ✔stage of change in which people are
considering changing behavior in the next 6 months
Preparation Stage -Correct Answer ✔stage of change in which people are getting
ready to make a change within the coming month
Action Stage -Correct Answer ✔Stage of change in which people are actively
changing a negative behavior or adopting a new, healthy behavior
Maintenance Stage -Correct Answer ✔sustained change over time; begins six
months after an action has started and continued indefinitely
Health Variables -Correct Answer ✔influences a patient health belief and practice
through internal and external variables
Internal Variables -Correct Answer ✔developmental stage
intellectual background perception of functioning
emotional factors
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