NURS 518 Exam 1 Ch. 1-6 | 160 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE
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World Health Organization definition of health - ANSWER a state of complete
physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or
infirmity
Healthy People 2020 Health Definition - ANSWER Health is an interaction
between an individual's biology and behavior, physical and social environments,
government policies and interventions, and access to quality health care.
Attain high-quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and
premature death.
Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all groups.
Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all.
Promote quality of life, healthy development, and healthy behaviors across all life
stages.
Physiology - ANSWER The study of body function
Pathophysiology - ANSWER is the study of the body's response to dysfunction
or disease
disease - ANSWER An abnormal state in which the body is not functioning
normally. Interruption, cessation, or disorder of a body system or organ structure.
Nutritional excesses or deficits: obesity - ANSWER Etiology Factors of Disease?
(5)
Diagnostic Reasoning - ANSWER Hallmark of clinical judgment and requires
careful analysis. Method of collecting and analyzing clinical information with the
following components: (1) attending to initially available cues, (2) formulating
diagnostic hypotheses, (3) gathering data relative to the tentative hypotheses, (4)
evaluating each hypothesis with the new data collected, and (5) arriving at a final
diagnosis.
Symptom Analysis - ANSWER Assessment and clinical decision making. The
fixed properties of a diagnostic test relate to its sensitivity and specificity.
Epidemiology - ANSWER The study of disease occurrence in a population
, Diagnosis - ANSWER designation as to the nature or cause of a health problem
History
Physical Exam
Diagnostic Tests - ANSWER The diagnostic process requires? (3)
History (Hx) - ANSWER used to obtain a person's account of their symptoms
and their progression and the factors that contribute to a diagnosis
Physical Exam (PE) - ANSWER Done to observe for signs of altered body
structure or function
Diagnostic Tests - ANSWER Ordered to validate what is thought to be the
problem; also ordered to determine other possible health problems that were not
obtained from the Hx and PE but may be present given the signs and symptoms.
Normal - ANSWER Established statistically from test results obtained from a
selected sample of people. This value represents the test results that fall within
the bell curve or the 95% distribution.
Validity - ANSWER The extent to which a measurement tool measures what it
is extended to measure.
Reliability - ANSWER Ability of a test to yield very similar scores for the same
individual over repeated testings. Consistency.
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