Nursing 246 exam 2 questions with
answers
A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease. state of
being you define in relation to Your own values, Your own personality, and Your own lifestyle
- .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Health
National road map for improving the health of all people - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Healthy
People 2020
4 main goals of Healthy People 2020? - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Attain high-quality, long lives
free of preventable disease
Achieve health equity and eliminate disparities
Create environments social & physical that promote good health for all
Promote quality of life, healthy development, and healthy behaviors across all life stages
activities related to maintaining, attaining, or regaining good health & preventing illness
- .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Positive Health Behaviors
Examples of positive health behaviors - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ immunizations
stress management
sleep
exercise
nutrition
Physician visits
,practices that are actually or potentially harmful to health - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Negative
Health Behaviors
Examples of negative health behaviors - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ smoking
drug or alcohol use
poor diet
lack of sleep
sedentary lifestyle
refusal to take medications
refusal to seek medical treatment
What are the different models of health behavior? - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Maslow's Human
Needs Model
Health Belief Model
Pender's Health Promotion Model
Holistic Health Models
physiological needs, safety, love, esteem, self actualization (accepting ones self)
- .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Investigates how a persons attitudes, perceptions, and beliefs affect their health. The client will need
to be ready and motivated to change their lifestyle behavior. (Self efficacy-belief that they can do it)
- .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Health Belief Model
Health is a positive, dynamic state, not merely the absence of disease.
Health promotion = ↑ a person's level of well-being
Areas of focus:
Individual characteristics & experiences
Behavior-specific knowledge & affect
Behavioral outcomes - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Pender's Health Promotion Model
,Incorporation of complementary and alternative interventions to promote optimal health. Ex: Music
therapy, Relaxation therapy, Therapeutic touch, and Guided imagery - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔
Holistic Health Models
What are the 3 Levels of Preventive Care? - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Primary Prevention
Secondary Prevention
Tertiary Prevention
Early detection of disease, prompt intervention, and health maintenance for individuals
experiencing health problems including prevention of complications and disabilities. Before client
shows symptoms of a disease!!
Diagnosis
Intervention
Screening (mammograms/occult blood)
Self exams
Care provided in home, hospital, or other agencies - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Secondary
Prevention
True prevention. Aimed at those considered physically & emotionally healthy.
Health education programs
Immunizations
Physical & nutritional fitness
Risk Assessments
Family Planning
Environmental Sanitation - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Primary Prevention
, Begins after an illness, when a condition is stabilized/treated, with hopes to reduce and prevent
complications or disabilities
Referrals - i.e. support group
Teaching to prevent complications
Rehabilitation - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Tertiary Prevention
Any situation, habit, social or environmental condition, physiological or psychological condition,
developmental or intellectual condition, spiritual condition or other variable that increases risk of
illness or accident - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Risk Factor
What are risk factors you can change? - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Environment
Lifestyle
What are risk factors you can not change? - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Genetic & physiological
factors
Age
A state in which a person's physical, emotional, intellectual, social, developmental or spiritual
functioning is diminished or impaired - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Illness
usually reversible, short duration, often severe - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Acute Illness
persists, usually longer than 6 months, irreversible & affects functioning
- .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Chronic Illness
Physiology involved in sleep - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Heart-rate (10-20 beats/min less while
sleeping), Breathing, BP, and muscle tone all decrease during sleep
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep (REM)