NUR230 Health and Wellness Exam Questions With Answers
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NUR230 Health and Wellness Exam Questions With Answers
World Health Organization 1948
Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
Abrevation for World health organization
WHO
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World Health Organization 1948
Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of
disease or infirmity.
Abrevation for World health organization
WHO
World Health Organization (WHO) 1986
Health is...a resource for everyday life, not the objective of living. Health is a positive concept
emphasizing social and personal resources, as well as physical capacities
American Nurses Association (1980)
Health is...a dynamic state of being in which the developmental and behavioral potential of an
individual is realized to the fullest extent possible
ANA (2010)
Health is an experience that is often expressed in terms of wellness and illness, and may occur in the
presence or absence of illness or injury.
Health
an ideal state of physical and mental wellbeing: something to strive for but never fully attained
Robert Louis Stevenson on health
"It is not a matter of holding good cards; it's playing a poor hand well."
Florence Nightingale 1820-1910
-care for the sick and the well: influenced health reform, health policy, and statistics
-Lobbied to improve housing, sanitation, nutrition, physical fitness and recreation
-Health as a continuum
Health (Past)
absence of disease
Health (present)
Wellness and quality of life
Wellness
active,optimal health
Dunn (1980):
functioning to one's maximum potential while maintaining balance and a purposeful direction in the
environment
, Being: (dunn cont'd)
what makes a person separate and individual
Belonging
being part of a whole
Becoming:
growing and developing
Befitting
making choices to benefit oneself for the future
Wellness (extended definition)
a state of optimal well-being oriented toward maximizing an individual's potential; a life-long process
of moving towards enhancing one's physical, intellectual, emotional, social, spiritual, and
environmental well-being
What is your attitude toward health?
can-do
passive
defeatist
fate
ANA 2010
Nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness
and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and
advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations.
ANA (2015) Code of Ethics provision 2
The nurse's primary commitment is to the patient, whether an individual, family, group, community,
or population.
ANA (2015) Code of Ethics provision 5
The nurse owes the same duties to self as to others, including the responsibility to promote health
and safety, to preserve wholeness of character and integrity, maintain competence, and continue
personal and professional growth.
What is health promotion?
The process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health (WHO, 1986)
a planned combination of educational, political, regulatory, community and organizational supports
for actions and conditions of living that contribute to the health of individuals, groups, or
communities
Health Promotion (WHO, 1986)
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