NURS 404 - WEEK 6 TEST QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE

NURS 404 - WEEK 6 TEST QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE The canadian community health nursing practice model - Answers outer to inner systems populations communities groups families individuals client CHN behavioural considerations - Answers a determinant of health an important consideration of prevention the focus of health communication behavioural theories Intrapersonal level- ecological perspective - Answers individual characteristics that influence behaviour, including knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, biology and socio economics Interpersonal level- ecological perspective - Answers processes and primary groups including family, friends and peers that provide social identity, support and role definitions Institutional factors- ecological perspective - Answers rules regulations policies informal structures may constrain or support recommended health behaviour Community factors - Answers social networks norms standards formal or informal among individuals, groups or organizations Public policy - Answers local provincial federal policies and laws that regular or support healthy actions and practice for disease prevention and early detection, control and management Limitations of biomedical approach - Answers traditional biomedical models of illness focus attention on discovering the pathology rather than understanding the illness= improvement in medical care they do not explain the functional somatic syndromes and illness without discernible disease disease is only one factor contribute to illness and illness behaviour- other models of ilness What is a theory - Answers set of interrelated concepts, definitions, and propositions that presents a systemic view of events or situations by specifying relations among variables in order to explain and predict the events of situations A theory has 3 main elements - Answers 1. the major factors that influence the phenomena of interest 2. the relationship between these factors 3. the conditions under which these relationships do or do not occur What is a model? - Answers generalized, hypothetical description used to analyze or explain something intentional simplification of phenomenon of interst help explain situations, general, hypothetical or based on a analogy draw on a number of theories to help understand a specific problem in a particular setting or contect more loosely structured than theories Theory - Answers clear explanation of how and why specifcial relationships lead to specific events explanatory as well as descriptive described on an abstraction continuum (more complex) Model - Answers simplification of a phenomenon descriptive Concepts - Answers major components of a theory/model constructs - Answers concepts that have been developed or adopted for use in a particular theory/model Variables - Answers operational forms of constructs specify how a construct is to be measured in a specific situation Practical reasons to use a theory - Answers help understand the nature of a problem describe and explain the needs and motivations of a pop of interest explain or make propositions concerning how to change health status, health related behaviours and their determinants guide program planners in selecting interventions that are needed to accomplish program goal and objectives informs the methods and measures used to monitor the problem an dprograms Intrapersonal level theory - Answers knowledge, attitudes, beliefs self-concepts, mental health,