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Health ✔Correct Answer-State of optimal functioning or well-being
Wellness ✔Correct Answer-An active process in which an individual progresses towards the
maximum possible potential, regardless of current state of health
Health Promotion ✔Correct Answer-Behavior of an individual motivated by a personal desire to
increase well-being and health potential
Illness ✔Correct Answer-Abnormal process in which any aspect of the person's functioning is
altered (in comparison to the previous condition of health)
Acute Illness ✔Correct Answer-Rapidly occurring illness that runs its course, allowing a person to
return to one's previous level of functioning
Chronic Illness ✔Correct Answer-Irreversible illness that causes permanent physical impairment
and requires long-term health care
Morbidity ✔Correct Answer-Frequency that a disease occurs
Mortality ✔Correct Answer-Number of deaths
Vulnerable Populations ✔Correct Answer-A disadvantaged subsegment of a community requiring
utmost care, specific ancillary considerations, and augmented protection in research. Including those
who live In poverty, women, children, older adults, rural and inner-city residences, new immigrants,
the homeless, mentally ill patients, and people with disabilities and special health care needs.
Health-illness Continuum ✔Correct Answer-A model to help conceptualize one's health. The model
views health as always changing, the scale has high-level wellness and death at opposite ends.
Basic Human Needs ✔Correct Answer-Something essential to the health and survival of humans;
common to all people
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs ✔Correct Answer-A hierarchy of basic and essential needs for
humans. (in order from lowest to highest level) Physiologic, safety and security, love and belonging,
self-esteem, self-actualization
Clinical Judgement ✔Correct Answer-Refers to the result (outcome) of critical thinking or clinical
reasoning; the conclusion, decision, or opinion a nurse makes
Critical Thinking ✔Correct Answer-Thought that is disciplined, comprehensive, based on
intellectual standards, and, as a result, well-reasoned; a systematic way to form and shape one's
thinking that functions purposefully and exactingly
Nursing Process ✔Correct Answer-Five-step systematic method for giving patient care; involves
assessing, diagnosing, planning, implementing, and evaluating