NUR 155 Study Guide Questions with Verified
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What is Health
Presence or absence of disease. Individual perception
What is Wellness
State of well-being. Self responsibility. Daily decision making
7 components of wellness
Environmental, Occupational, Intellectual, Spiritual, Physical, Emotional, and Social
Clinical Model
Provides the narrowest interpretation of health. People viewed as physiologic systems. Health
identified by the absence of signs and symptoms of disease or injury. State of not being
"sick."
Role Performance Model
Ability to fulfill societal roles, their roles as healthy even if they have clinical illness.
Sickness is the inability to perform one's role
Health-Illness Continuum
Health and Illness/disease opposite ends. Move back and fourth day by day
Internal Variables
Biologic, Psychological, and Cognitive Dimension
External Variable
Physical environment, Standards of living, Family & Cultural beliefs, Social support network
, Illness
Personal state, subjective. May/may not be related to disease
Disease
Diagnosis, physiological symptoms
Acute
Lasting less than 6 months. Ex: Mono, Flu, Bronch
Chronic
Will last longer than 6 months having periods of remissions and exacerbation. Ex: Cancer
Holism
Viewing the individual as a whole, not as an assembly of part
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Physiologic, Safety, Love, Self-esteem, Self-actualization
Levels of Prevention
Primary, secondary, tertiary
Primary Prevention
Preventing the onset of disease. Health education, safety, immunizations, risk assessment
Secondary Prevention
Early Identification and prompt intervention. Prevents complications. Ex: mammograms,
growth charts
Tertiary Prevention
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What is Health
Presence or absence of disease. Individual perception
What is Wellness
State of well-being. Self responsibility. Daily decision making
7 components of wellness
Environmental, Occupational, Intellectual, Spiritual, Physical, Emotional, and Social
Clinical Model
Provides the narrowest interpretation of health. People viewed as physiologic systems. Health
identified by the absence of signs and symptoms of disease or injury. State of not being
"sick."
Role Performance Model
Ability to fulfill societal roles, their roles as healthy even if they have clinical illness.
Sickness is the inability to perform one's role
Health-Illness Continuum
Health and Illness/disease opposite ends. Move back and fourth day by day
Internal Variables
Biologic, Psychological, and Cognitive Dimension
External Variable
Physical environment, Standards of living, Family & Cultural beliefs, Social support network
, Illness
Personal state, subjective. May/may not be related to disease
Disease
Diagnosis, physiological symptoms
Acute
Lasting less than 6 months. Ex: Mono, Flu, Bronch
Chronic
Will last longer than 6 months having periods of remissions and exacerbation. Ex: Cancer
Holism
Viewing the individual as a whole, not as an assembly of part
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Physiologic, Safety, Love, Self-esteem, Self-actualization
Levels of Prevention
Primary, secondary, tertiary
Primary Prevention
Preventing the onset of disease. Health education, safety, immunizations, risk assessment
Secondary Prevention
Early Identification and prompt intervention. Prevents complications. Ex: mammograms,
growth charts
Tertiary Prevention
