ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Metaparadigm - CORRECT ANSWER Used to describe a global framework or the
way a professional discipline looks at the world
Metaparadigm of Nursing - CORRECT ANSWER The areas that are the most general
basis of nursing practice, the elements of nursing
Nursing Metaparadigm Concepts - CORRECT ANSWER person, environment, health,
nursing care
System theories - CORRECT ANSWER Accounts for the whole of an entity (the
system, the patient) and its component parts ( subsystem which is biological, psychological,
social and soiritual dimensions)
Spirituality - CORRECT ANSWER A way of being in the wirkd in which a person
feels a sense of connectedness to self, others, a higher power or nature, or a combination of
those
Transcendence - CORRECT ANSWER The process of moving to a higher level of self
awareness and consciousness
FICA - CORRECT ANSWER taking a spiritual history on your patient will allow you
to understand your patients spitituality
What does FICA stand for - CORRECT ANSWER Faith and belief, importance,
community and address in care
, Holism - CORRECT ANSWER Physical health is affected by beliefs, expectations
amd thoughts. When ome facet of a person faces a challenge or recieves support, the others
are affected
Health - CORRECT ANSWER The extent to which an individual or group is able to
realizs aspirations and sarisfy needs and the change or cope with the environment
Wellness - CORRECT ANSWER A subjective experience of health; overall well-being.
Includes both physical and mental components and a persons perception of their overall well-
being
Illness - CORRECT ANSWER The subjective experiences of loss of health, or the
subjective experience of living with the illness. Can be the resulg of the signs and symptoms
experienced by the person as part of a disease process
Disease - CORRECT ANSWER An objective state of health, displayef by the
pathology that can be detected by medical science
Health as stability - CORRECT ANSWER Health is the maintence of norms
Health as actualization - CORRECT ANSWER health is achieving human potential
Health as a resource - CORRECT ANSWER Health is an asset that allows a person to
fulfill roles and engage in activities of daily everyday living.
Health as unity - CORRECT ANSWER Holistic. Often associated with self-
transcendence.
Medical approach to health care - CORRECT ANSWER Emphasis on medical
intervention. Focus on treating the disease, less emphasis given to health promotion and
disease prevention