NUR 139 EXAM 1 (DR. DRISCOLL, MOLLOY COLLEGE) | COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE, NCLEX-
STYLE PRACTICE QUESTIONS & ANSWERS 2026/2027
What determines a person's health behavior? - correct answer ✔✔Emotions
Education
Social status
Environment
Perception of risk
What they've been taught
What factors affect health? - correct answer ✔✔Genetics
Behavior (smoking, using drugs)
Physical environment
Access to health care
Income
Education
Level of Functioning - correct answer ✔✔A person's ability to remain self-reliance, to maintain a
sense of control and independence over self and environment.
What is loss of functioning a sign of? - correct answer ✔✔disease, ill health
High-level wellness - correct answer ✔✔Sense of well-being, life satisfaction, quality of life
Progression toward a higher level of functioning
,What does High-level wellness emphasize? - correct answer ✔✔interrelationship between
environment and health on personal and societal level
Negative end of the Wellness-Illness Continuum - correct answer ✔✔Adaptation to
disease/disability
wellness-illness continuum - correct answer ✔✔A paradigm that is a bipolar, interactive
portrayal of health and illness in myriad configurations, ranging from high-level wellness to
depletion of health (death).
Functioning - correct answer ✔✔Levels reflected in terms of performance/social expectations;
loss indicator of need for nursing intervention
Health - correct answer ✔✔State of physical, mental, spiritual, and social functioning within
developmental context
Both individual and societal responsibility
Disease - correct answer ✔✔Failure of adaptive mechanisms
What does disease result in? - correct answer ✔✔functional or structural disturbances
Illness - correct answer ✔✔Subjective experience of individual and physical manifestation of
disease—psychological, spiritual, and social components
Historical Perspective of Health prior to 1940 - correct answer ✔✔Health = absence of disease
Infectious diseases were prominent
,Physicians were independent primary practitioners
Government started to increase public health/welfare
Historical Perspective of Health from 1940s to 1950s - correct answer ✔✔Health = ability to
fulfill roles in society
Physicals for fitness
Physicians linked to hospital services
Increased federal role: hospital expansion, federal programs
Historical Perspective of Health from 1960's to present - correct answer ✔✔Health = adaptation
and reaction to environment
Disease prevention/health promotion more prominent
Emphasis on individual responsibility/lifestyle choices
Advance practice nurses became health providers
Pediatric nurse practitioners were 1st providers
The government began to control costs
, Quality of life is seen as a component of health
QOL indicators were devised to help persons view their overall health
Person/family perception important
Who founded the first NP program in 1965? Where? - correct answer ✔✔Loretta Ford and
Henry Silver at the University of Colorado
What are the three models of health? - correct answer ✔✔Clinical
Role Performance
Adaptive
What is the clinical model of health? - correct answer ✔✔Absence of signs and symptoms for
disease
Prevention is not emphasized
What is the role performance model of health? What is it the basis for? - correct answer
✔✔Health is based on whether a person can perform societal roles
This is the basis for PE, camps, and work
What is a vital component of the role performance model? - correct answer ✔✔The sick role, in
which people can be excused from performing their social roles while they are ill
What is the adaptive model of health? - correct answer ✔✔Ability to adapt positively to change
to social, mental and physiological change.
STYLE PRACTICE QUESTIONS & ANSWERS 2026/2027
What determines a person's health behavior? - correct answer ✔✔Emotions
Education
Social status
Environment
Perception of risk
What they've been taught
What factors affect health? - correct answer ✔✔Genetics
Behavior (smoking, using drugs)
Physical environment
Access to health care
Income
Education
Level of Functioning - correct answer ✔✔A person's ability to remain self-reliance, to maintain a
sense of control and independence over self and environment.
What is loss of functioning a sign of? - correct answer ✔✔disease, ill health
High-level wellness - correct answer ✔✔Sense of well-being, life satisfaction, quality of life
Progression toward a higher level of functioning
,What does High-level wellness emphasize? - correct answer ✔✔interrelationship between
environment and health on personal and societal level
Negative end of the Wellness-Illness Continuum - correct answer ✔✔Adaptation to
disease/disability
wellness-illness continuum - correct answer ✔✔A paradigm that is a bipolar, interactive
portrayal of health and illness in myriad configurations, ranging from high-level wellness to
depletion of health (death).
Functioning - correct answer ✔✔Levels reflected in terms of performance/social expectations;
loss indicator of need for nursing intervention
Health - correct answer ✔✔State of physical, mental, spiritual, and social functioning within
developmental context
Both individual and societal responsibility
Disease - correct answer ✔✔Failure of adaptive mechanisms
What does disease result in? - correct answer ✔✔functional or structural disturbances
Illness - correct answer ✔✔Subjective experience of individual and physical manifestation of
disease—psychological, spiritual, and social components
Historical Perspective of Health prior to 1940 - correct answer ✔✔Health = absence of disease
Infectious diseases were prominent
,Physicians were independent primary practitioners
Government started to increase public health/welfare
Historical Perspective of Health from 1940s to 1950s - correct answer ✔✔Health = ability to
fulfill roles in society
Physicals for fitness
Physicians linked to hospital services
Increased federal role: hospital expansion, federal programs
Historical Perspective of Health from 1960's to present - correct answer ✔✔Health = adaptation
and reaction to environment
Disease prevention/health promotion more prominent
Emphasis on individual responsibility/lifestyle choices
Advance practice nurses became health providers
Pediatric nurse practitioners were 1st providers
The government began to control costs
, Quality of life is seen as a component of health
QOL indicators were devised to help persons view their overall health
Person/family perception important
Who founded the first NP program in 1965? Where? - correct answer ✔✔Loretta Ford and
Henry Silver at the University of Colorado
What are the three models of health? - correct answer ✔✔Clinical
Role Performance
Adaptive
What is the clinical model of health? - correct answer ✔✔Absence of signs and symptoms for
disease
Prevention is not emphasized
What is the role performance model of health? What is it the basis for? - correct answer
✔✔Health is based on whether a person can perform societal roles
This is the basis for PE, camps, and work
What is a vital component of the role performance model? - correct answer ✔✔The sick role, in
which people can be excused from performing their social roles while they are ill
What is the adaptive model of health? - correct answer ✔✔Ability to adapt positively to change
to social, mental and physiological change.
