,
,
,
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a. Teaching safe health practices
b. Assessing the individual’s health needs
c. Reducing potential health risk factors
d. Changing established lifestyle
Answer: a
Rationale: An important goal of health promotion is helping individuals learn to make safe
health choices.
Nursing Process: Implementation
Client Needs: Health Promotion and Maintenance
11. A healthy person generally:
a. Lacks stability
b. Lacks energy
c. Is in denial
d. Is in harmony
Answer: d
Rationale: Being in harmony, or homeostasis, means that the body can balance healthy and
unhealthy forces.
Nursing Process: Planning
Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity
12. In a health model, the nurse, as a collaborator, is responsible for:
a. Teaching patients about their disease process
b. Sharing and exchanging information with other health professionals
c. Demonstrating desired health behavior
d. Performing daily care needs
Answer: b
Rationale: The nurse acts as a collaborator with other health professionals to promote positive
patient outcomes.
Nursing Process: Implementation
Client Needs: Health Promotion and Maintenance
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13. Jennifer Joseph, a 60-year-old client, has been instructed by the public health nurse
to begin a program of exercise. You can further explain to Mrs. Joseph that the benefits
of exercise are:
a. An increase in blood supply to muscles and nerves
b. An increase in heart rate and rhythm
c. A decrease in the size of the heart muscle
d. A decrease in blood volume and oxygen demands
Answer: a
Rationale: Exercise helps stimulate increased blood supply, which nourishes muscles and
nerves.
Nursing Process: Implementation
Client Needs: Physiological
Integrity
14. Holistic health:
a. Excludes one’s physical well-being
b. Limits consideration of one’s social standing
c. Excludes environmental impact
d. Considers one’s m enNt aUl RwSelIl-bNeGinTgB.COM
Answer: d
Rationale: Holistic practices consider the whole person’s well-being.
Nursing Process: Planning
Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity
15. Which of the following is an example of health restoration?
a. Rehabilitation after surgery to replace a knee joint
b. Immunization against the hepatitis B virus
c. Surgical excision of a breast cyst
d. Closure of an abdominal stoma
Answer: a
Rationale: Health restoration implies rehabilitation to one’s optimal functioning.
Nursing Process: Planning
Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity
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16. A major objective of health promotion is:
a. Decreasing one’s stress level
b. Challenging health practices
c. Attaining one’s level of optimal health
d. Providing self-actualization
Answer: c
Rationale: The focus of health promotion is individualized to bring the person to his or her
best potential.
Nursing Process: Planning
Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity
17. The most important goal in health restoration is:
a. Regaining losses
b. Compensating for losses
c. Attaining acceptance
d. Providing sympathy
Answer: b
Rationale: Health restoration assists the person in learning to cope with losses.
Nursing Process: Planning
Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity
18. Which of the following forces has no impact on changing one’s health behavior?
a. Family
b. Social pressures
c. Role models
d. Inherited traits
Answer: d
Rationale: Inherited traits are those transmitted by genes and are out of a person’s control.
Nursing Process: Assessment
Client Needs: Physiological Integrity
19. The stressor most commonly associated with adolescence is:
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a. The search for self-worth
b. The search for identity
c. Separation anxiety
d. Birth of a new sibling
Answer: b
Rationale: Adolescents struggle to find out who they are.
Nursing Process: Planning
Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity
20. Based on the Social Readjustment Rating Scale, the most stressful event for an adult is:
a. Changing careers
b. Changing residence
c. Divorce
d. Childbirth
Answer: c
Rationale: Divorce has been identified as one of life’s major stressors, in that it breaks up the
family unit.
Nursing Process: Evaluation
Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity
21. Virgil Grant, a patient recently diagnosed with AIDS, is having a healthy response to
the stress in his life if he demonstrates which of the following behaviors?
a. Denial
b. Withdrawal
c. Acceptance
d. Aggression
Answer: c
Rationale: The stage known as acceptance indicates that the individual has progressed to the
final stage of the grieving process.
Nursing Process: Evaluation
Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity
22. Gary Byrd, a 24-year-old college student, tells the nurse that he sometimes uses
various illegal drugs. The nurse can characterize Gary as a substance abuser if he:
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a. Continues to be active in college affairs
b. Maintains his self-esteem
c. Begins to lose interest in his relationships
d. Has heightened interest in the opposite sex
Answer: c
Rationale: Substance abuse is characterized by a history of personal problems.
Nursing Process: Evaluation
Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity
23. The highest percentage of accidents resulting from alcohol use involve:
a. Homicides
b. Drowning
c. Fires
d. Motor vehicles
Answer: d
Rationale: Statistics show that alcohol use is a major cause of motor vehicle accidents.
Nursing Process: Planning
Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity
24. Sandra Gooden has just been told by the doctor that she is pregnant with her first
baby. Which of the following factors will have a negative impact on Sandra’s ability to
maintaingood health during her pregnancy?
a. Poor relationship with her in-laws
b. Community recognition
c. Effective stress management
d. Economic well-being
Answer: a
Rationale: The nuclear family and extended family play an important role in the well-being of
the pregnant woman.
Nursing Process: Assessment
Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity
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25. The level of health prevention that concentrates on retraining and educating to maximize
the use of remaining capacities is:
a. Primary prevention
b. Secondary prevention
c. Tertiary prevention
d. Disability prevention
Answer: c
Rationale: Tertiary prevention minimizes the effects of long-term disease or disability. With
rehabilitation, clients can reach their highest level of functioning.
Nursing Process: Implementation
Client Needs: Health Promotion and Maintenance
26. Preventive care, including immunizations and yearly physical examinations, is
classified as what type of health care service?
a. Primary
b. Secondary
c. Tertiary
d. Collaborative
Answer: a
Rationale: Primary health care services are aimed at disease prevention.
Nursing Process: Implementation
Client Needs: Health Promotion and Maintenance
27. National health insurance for persons 65 years and older is known as:
a. Medicaid
b. Medicare
c. Socialized medicine
d. Palliative care
Answer: b
Rationale: Medicare offers health insurance coverage to seniors aged 65 years and older.
Nursing Process: Planning
Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity
,
,
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a. Teaching safe health practices
b. Assessing the individual’s health needs
c. Reducing potential health risk factors
d. Changing established lifestyle
Answer: a
Rationale: An important goal of health promotion is helping individuals learn to make safe
health choices.
Nursing Process: Implementation
Client Needs: Health Promotion and Maintenance
11. A healthy person generally:
a. Lacks stability
b. Lacks energy
c. Is in denial
d. Is in harmony
Answer: d
Rationale: Being in harmony, or homeostasis, means that the body can balance healthy and
unhealthy forces.
Nursing Process: Planning
Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity
12. In a health model, the nurse, as a collaborator, is responsible for:
a. Teaching patients about their disease process
b. Sharing and exchanging information with other health professionals
c. Demonstrating desired health behavior
d. Performing daily care needs
Answer: b
Rationale: The nurse acts as a collaborator with other health professionals to promote positive
patient outcomes.
Nursing Process: Implementation
Client Needs: Health Promotion and Maintenance
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Polan, Journey Across the Life Span, 6e
13. Jennifer Joseph, a 60-year-old client, has been instructed by the public health nurse
to begin a program of exercise. You can further explain to Mrs. Joseph that the benefits
of exercise are:
a. An increase in blood supply to muscles and nerves
b. An increase in heart rate and rhythm
c. A decrease in the size of the heart muscle
d. A decrease in blood volume and oxygen demands
Answer: a
Rationale: Exercise helps stimulate increased blood supply, which nourishes muscles and
nerves.
Nursing Process: Implementation
Client Needs: Physiological
Integrity
14. Holistic health:
a. Excludes one’s physical well-being
b. Limits consideration of one’s social standing
c. Excludes environmental impact
d. Considers one’s m enNt aUl RwSelIl-bNeGinTgB.COM
Answer: d
Rationale: Holistic practices consider the whole person’s well-being.
Nursing Process: Planning
Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity
15. Which of the following is an example of health restoration?
a. Rehabilitation after surgery to replace a knee joint
b. Immunization against the hepatitis B virus
c. Surgical excision of a breast cyst
d. Closure of an abdominal stoma
Answer: a
Rationale: Health restoration implies rehabilitation to one’s optimal functioning.
Nursing Process: Planning
Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity
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Polan, Journey Across the Life Span, 6e
16. A major objective of health promotion is:
a. Decreasing one’s stress level
b. Challenging health practices
c. Attaining one’s level of optimal health
d. Providing self-actualization
Answer: c
Rationale: The focus of health promotion is individualized to bring the person to his or her
best potential.
Nursing Process: Planning
Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity
17. The most important goal in health restoration is:
a. Regaining losses
b. Compensating for losses
c. Attaining acceptance
d. Providing sympathy
Answer: b
Rationale: Health restoration assists the person in learning to cope with losses.
Nursing Process: Planning
Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity
18. Which of the following forces has no impact on changing one’s health behavior?
a. Family
b. Social pressures
c. Role models
d. Inherited traits
Answer: d
Rationale: Inherited traits are those transmitted by genes and are out of a person’s control.
Nursing Process: Assessment
Client Needs: Physiological Integrity
19. The stressor most commonly associated with adolescence is:
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Polan, Journey Across the Life Span, 6e
a. The search for self-worth
b. The search for identity
c. Separation anxiety
d. Birth of a new sibling
Answer: b
Rationale: Adolescents struggle to find out who they are.
Nursing Process: Planning
Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity
20. Based on the Social Readjustment Rating Scale, the most stressful event for an adult is:
a. Changing careers
b. Changing residence
c. Divorce
d. Childbirth
Answer: c
Rationale: Divorce has been identified as one of life’s major stressors, in that it breaks up the
family unit.
Nursing Process: Evaluation
Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity
21. Virgil Grant, a patient recently diagnosed with AIDS, is having a healthy response to
the stress in his life if he demonstrates which of the following behaviors?
a. Denial
b. Withdrawal
c. Acceptance
d. Aggression
Answer: c
Rationale: The stage known as acceptance indicates that the individual has progressed to the
final stage of the grieving process.
Nursing Process: Evaluation
Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity
22. Gary Byrd, a 24-year-old college student, tells the nurse that he sometimes uses
various illegal drugs. The nurse can characterize Gary as a substance abuser if he:
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Polan, Journey Across the Life Span, 6e
a. Continues to be active in college affairs
b. Maintains his self-esteem
c. Begins to lose interest in his relationships
d. Has heightened interest in the opposite sex
Answer: c
Rationale: Substance abuse is characterized by a history of personal problems.
Nursing Process: Evaluation
Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity
23. The highest percentage of accidents resulting from alcohol use involve:
a. Homicides
b. Drowning
c. Fires
d. Motor vehicles
Answer: d
Rationale: Statistics show that alcohol use is a major cause of motor vehicle accidents.
Nursing Process: Planning
Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity
24. Sandra Gooden has just been told by the doctor that she is pregnant with her first
baby. Which of the following factors will have a negative impact on Sandra’s ability to
maintaingood health during her pregnancy?
a. Poor relationship with her in-laws
b. Community recognition
c. Effective stress management
d. Economic well-being
Answer: a
Rationale: The nuclear family and extended family play an important role in the well-being of
the pregnant woman.
Nursing Process: Assessment
Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity
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Polan, Journey Across the Life Span, 6e
25. The level of health prevention that concentrates on retraining and educating to maximize
the use of remaining capacities is:
a. Primary prevention
b. Secondary prevention
c. Tertiary prevention
d. Disability prevention
Answer: c
Rationale: Tertiary prevention minimizes the effects of long-term disease or disability. With
rehabilitation, clients can reach their highest level of functioning.
Nursing Process: Implementation
Client Needs: Health Promotion and Maintenance
26. Preventive care, including immunizations and yearly physical examinations, is
classified as what type of health care service?
a. Primary
b. Secondary
c. Tertiary
d. Collaborative
Answer: a
Rationale: Primary health care services are aimed at disease prevention.
Nursing Process: Implementation
Client Needs: Health Promotion and Maintenance
27. National health insurance for persons 65 years and older is known as:
a. Medicaid
b. Medicare
c. Socialized medicine
d. Palliative care
Answer: b
Rationale: Medicare offers health insurance coverage to seniors aged 65 years and older.
Nursing Process: Planning
Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity
