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NURS 518 Exam 1 Ch. 1-6 Questions And
Answers 2025 Update
A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of
disease or infirmity - Answer✔World Health Organization definition of health
Health is an interaction between an individual's biology and behavior, physical and social
environments, government policies and interventions, and access to quality health care.
Attain high-quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and premature
death.
Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all groups.
Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all.
Promote quality of life, healthy development, and healthy behaviors across all life stages. -
Answer✔Healthy People 2020 Health Definition
The study of body function - Answer✔Physiology
is the study of the body's response to dysfunction or disease - Answer✔Pathophysiology
An abnormal state in which the body is not functioning normally. Interruption, cessation, or
disorder of a body system or organ structure. - Answer✔disease
Aspects of the disease process? (6) - Answer✔Etiology
Pathogenesis
Morphological changes
Clinical Manifestations
Diagnosis
Clinical Course
Etiology Factors of Disease? (5) - Answer✔Biological agents: bacteria, viruses
Physical: traumas, radiation, burns
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Chemical agents: poisons, alcohol
Genetic inheritance
Nutritional excesses or deficits: obesity
Hallmark of clinical judgment and requires careful analysis. Method of collecting and analyzing
clinical information with the following components: (1) attending to initially available cues, (2)
formulating diagnostic hypotheses, (3) gathering data relative to the tentative hypotheses, (4)
evaluating each hypothesis with the new data collected, and (5) arriving at a final diagnosis. -
Answer✔Diagnostic Reasoning
Assessment and clinical decision making. The fixed properties of a diagnostic test relate to its
sensitivity and specificity. - Answer✔Symptom Analysis
The study of disease occurrence in a population - Answer✔Epidemiology
designation as to the nature or cause of a health problem - Answer✔Diagnosis
The diagnostic process requires? (3) - Answer✔History
Physical Exam
Diagnostic Tests
used to obtain a person's account of their symptoms and their progression and the factors that
contribute to a diagnosis - Answer✔History (Hx)
Done to observe for signs of altered body structure or function - Answer✔Physical Exam (PE)
Ordered to validate what is thought to be the problem; also ordered to determine other
possible health problems that were not obtained from the Hx and PE but may be present given
the signs and symptoms. - Answer✔Diagnostic Tests
Established statistically from test results obtained from a selected sample of people. This value
represents the test results that fall within the bell curve or the 95% distribution. -
Answer✔Normal
The extent to which a measurement tool measures what it is extended to measure. -
Answer✔Validity
Ability of a test to yield very similar scores for the same individual over repeated testings.
Consistency. - Answer✔Reliability
The proportion of people with a disease who are positive for that disease on a given test or
observation; true-positive result. - Answer✔Sensitivity
The proportion of people without the disease who are negative on a given test or observation;
true-negative result - Answer✔Specificity
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NURS 518 Exam 1 Ch. 1-6 Questions And
Answers 2025 Update
A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of
disease or infirmity - Answer✔World Health Organization definition of health
Health is an interaction between an individual's biology and behavior, physical and social
environments, government policies and interventions, and access to quality health care.
Attain high-quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and premature
death.
Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all groups.
Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all.
Promote quality of life, healthy development, and healthy behaviors across all life stages. -
Answer✔Healthy People 2020 Health Definition
The study of body function - Answer✔Physiology
is the study of the body's response to dysfunction or disease - Answer✔Pathophysiology
An abnormal state in which the body is not functioning normally. Interruption, cessation, or
disorder of a body system or organ structure. - Answer✔disease
Aspects of the disease process? (6) - Answer✔Etiology
Pathogenesis
Morphological changes
Clinical Manifestations
Diagnosis
Clinical Course
Etiology Factors of Disease? (5) - Answer✔Biological agents: bacteria, viruses
Physical: traumas, radiation, burns
1
, ©THESTAR 2024/2025 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 2:12PM.
Chemical agents: poisons, alcohol
Genetic inheritance
Nutritional excesses or deficits: obesity
Hallmark of clinical judgment and requires careful analysis. Method of collecting and analyzing
clinical information with the following components: (1) attending to initially available cues, (2)
formulating diagnostic hypotheses, (3) gathering data relative to the tentative hypotheses, (4)
evaluating each hypothesis with the new data collected, and (5) arriving at a final diagnosis. -
Answer✔Diagnostic Reasoning
Assessment and clinical decision making. The fixed properties of a diagnostic test relate to its
sensitivity and specificity. - Answer✔Symptom Analysis
The study of disease occurrence in a population - Answer✔Epidemiology
designation as to the nature or cause of a health problem - Answer✔Diagnosis
The diagnostic process requires? (3) - Answer✔History
Physical Exam
Diagnostic Tests
used to obtain a person's account of their symptoms and their progression and the factors that
contribute to a diagnosis - Answer✔History (Hx)
Done to observe for signs of altered body structure or function - Answer✔Physical Exam (PE)
Ordered to validate what is thought to be the problem; also ordered to determine other
possible health problems that were not obtained from the Hx and PE but may be present given
the signs and symptoms. - Answer✔Diagnostic Tests
Established statistically from test results obtained from a selected sample of people. This value
represents the test results that fall within the bell curve or the 95% distribution. -
Answer✔Normal
The extent to which a measurement tool measures what it is extended to measure. -
Answer✔Validity
Ability of a test to yield very similar scores for the same individual over repeated testings.
Consistency. - Answer✔Reliability
The proportion of people with a disease who are positive for that disease on a given test or
observation; true-positive result. - Answer✔Sensitivity
The proportion of people without the disease who are negative on a given test or observation;
true-negative result - Answer✔Specificity
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