NR 222 Final Exam Questions and Answers Graded A

Health - State of physical, mental and social functioning that realizes the potential of which a person is capable Wellness - State toward a higher level of functioning- improved physical and mental health state Illness - Social construct in which people are in an imbalanced, unsustainable relationship with their environment and are failing in ability to survive and create higher quality of life Disease - failure of a persons adaptive mechanisms to adequately counteract stimuli and stresses, resulting structural or functional damage Wellness-Illness continuum - A paradigm that is bipolar, interactive portrayal of health and illness in myriad configurations, ranging from high level wellness to depletion of health Clinical model of health - absence of signs and symptoms of disease- conventional model of the discipline of medicine Empathy - ability to understand anothers feelings without losing personal identity and perspective Various models of health (4) - Clinical model, role performance model, adaptive model, eudamonistic