NURS 299 Module 1 Test With
Complete Solution
Culture - ANSWER as an element of ethnicity, refers to integrated patterns of
human behavior that include the language, thoughts, communications,
actions, customs, beliefs, values, and institutions of racial, ethnic, religious, or
social groups.
cultural values - ANSWER guide actions and decision-making that facilitates
self-worth and self-esteem. They shape human behaviors and determine
what individuals will do to maintain their health status, how they will care for
themselves, and others who become ill, and where and from whom they will
seek health care.
ethnicity - ANSWER focuses on differences in meanings, values, and ways of
living.
race - ANSWER is associated with power and indexes the history or ongoing
imposition of one's group's authority above another.
values - ANSWER are beliefs about the worth of something and serve as
standards that influence behavior and thinking.
Value orientations - ANSWER reflect the personality type of a particular
society.
health - ANSWER is the merging and balancing of six physical and
psychologic dimensions of health: physical, intellectual, emotional, social,
spiritual, and environmental.
,nutrition - ANSWER is the study of essential nutrients and the processes by
which nutrients are used by the body.
wellness - ANSWER is a lifestyle that enhance our level of health
health promotion - ANSWER consists of strategies used to increase the level
of health of individuals, families, groups, and communities.
* Knowledge
* Techniques
* Community supports
disease prevention - ANSWER is the recognition of a danger to health that
could be reduced or alleviated through specific actions or changes in lifestyle
behaviors.
** Primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention
** Role of nutrition
health literacy - ANSWER is the ability to understand basic health concepts
and apply them to one's own health decisions.
** Formal education
** Non-formal education
** Informal education
Learning Objectives:
define health and wellness. - ANSWER ○ Health: is the merging and
balancing of six physical and psychologic dimensions of health: physical,
intellectual, emotional, social, spiritual, and environmental.
, ○ Wellness: is a lifestyle that enhance our level of health
Learning Objectives:
define health promotion. - ANSWER -- it is very important in nursing. --
○ Health Promotion: consists of strategies used to increase the level of
health of individuals, families, groups, and communities.
* Knowledge
* Techniques
* Community supports
Learning Objectives:
state the purpose of Healthy People 2020 (HP2020). - ANSWER It is a
program of the US Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS). ○
It is based on the vision of a society in which all people live long and healthy
lives (based on ecological model of health).
- Its mission is to improve health through strengthening policy and practice.
○ (watch slide 8) & (box 1-1 from the book)
○ The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) is an
American survey that monitors the dietary intake, medical history,
biochemical evaluation, and measurement of American groups that were
carefully chosen to represent the total population. Also, the National Food
consumption Survey (NFCS).
Learning Objectives:
describe health literacy. - ANSWER it is the ability to understand basic health
, concepts and apply them to one's own health decisions.
-- Formal education:
school environment.
-- Non-formal education: organize teaching or learning events such as
hospitals, clinics, or community centers.
-- Informal education: acquired through daily activities.
○ Health literacy actualization: being able to use acquired health knowledge
and skills -it can be influenced by:
-- social factors: create settings to receive support for health-promoting
behaviors.
-- individual factors: choices persons make to acquire and then apply health
knowledge.
-- cultural factors: encompass ethnic, religious, and racial traditions.
-- supportive health system.
Learning Objectives:
Identify 6 nutriment categories. - ANSWER ○ Carbohydrates (CHO)
○ Proteins
○ Lipids (fats)
○ Vitamins
○ Minerals