NR 222 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE Definitions of health, health promotion, illness, disease Nurses Role in health and illness: Understands the challenges of today’s health care system/ Identifies actual and potential risk factors/ Experiences compassion fatigue Health Defined in text-is a state of physical, mental, spiritual, and social functioning that realizes a person’s potential and is experienced within the development context. Health is considered to be part of the metaparadigm for nu...