Exam 2 Fundamentals Nursing Galen College All Possible Questions and Answers 2025

Suchman's Stages of Illness - ️️Stage 1: Symptom experience: Believe something is wrong Stage 2: Assumption of the sick role: Accepts the sick role and seeks confirmation Stage 3: Medical care contact: Seeks advice of a health professional Stage 4: Dependent client role: Becomes dependent on the professional for help Stage 5: Recovery or rehabilitation: Relinquish the dependent role, Resume former roles and responsibilities Chronic Illness - ️️an on-going illness / LONGER than 6 months / just managing symptoms / periods of good and bad acute illness - ️️A sudden illness / abrupt / LESS than 6 months Health - ️️COMPLETE well-being Health Promotion Model - ️️Directed at increasing a patient's level of well-being health protection - ️️Behavior motivated by a desire to actively avoid illness, detect it early, or maintain functioning within its constraints. INTENTIONAL Maslow Hierarchy of Needs - ️️1. Physiological 2. Safety 3. Love/Belonging 4. Esteem 5. Self Actualization primary prevention - ️️seatbelt, vaccines, preventative secondary prevention - ️️routine exams, mammogram, blood sugar tertiary prevention - ️️actions taken to contain damage once a disease or disability has progressed beyond its early stages - walker Hypotonic - ️️more fluid less particles cells swell Hypertonic - ️️more particles LESS fluidDiffusion - ️️higher to lower osmosis - ️️movement of h2o cations - ️️+ charged ions crutches - ️️should be 6 inches away from tip of toes hand grip by hip 1.5-2 below axilla 30 degree elbow angle 4 point gait - ️️1: 1 crutch 2: opposite foot 3: other crutch 4: other foot nothing moves together (partial weight bearing) 3 point gait - ️️1: move two crutches and bad leg together 2: move good foot (none weight bearing) 2 point gait - ️️1: move on crutch and opposite food together 2: move other crutch and other foot together cane - ️️Cane on STRONG side move 3-6 inches cane and foot same time walker - ️️ ROM passive - ️️someone has to move the patient FULLY ROM Assistive - ️️patient needs SOME help ROM active - ️️performed by patient plan of care for a hip fracture ? - ️️manslows health model pneumonia after a cold/cough - ️️acute illness what disease has the most emotional / behavior response? - ️️chronic diseasewhat supplement enhances flow in gall bladder, liver, spleen, stomach ? - ️️milk thistle this stimulates mental activity, enhances immune system and improves appetite? - ️️GINSENG Nursing Diagnosis - ️️used to evaluate the response of the whole person to actual or potential health problems (etiology, signs, symptoms, problem) oligo - ? - ️️scanty arthro - - ️️joint pepsia - - ️️digestion eu - ️️normal myelo ? - ️️bone marrow what food has calcium? - ️️dairy,sardines, whole grains, and leafy green vegetables feverfew - ️️boosts immune system wound healing basal metabolic rate ? - ️️the minimum amount of energy needed for body to function Carbohydrates - ️️Broken down to glucose to provide energy. (carbon / hydrogen / oxygen molecule) dysphagia - ️️difficulty swallowing fat soluable vitamins are - ️️A, D, E, K