Nursing 1070 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

NURSING 1070-Chapters 1-6 Questions With 100% Verified Answers A+ What is health? - ANS-Health is dynamic; it is a multilayered state influenced by the environment or context of a person's life. Includes physical, emotional, social and spiritual aspects of life. Subjective What is the biomedical approach to health? - ANS--Belief that medicine cures all rather than focusing on disease/illness prevention -Health is just the absence of disease. (Western world oriented) What is the behavi...

Health - - A social and ecological phenomenon that includes physical, emotional, social, and spiritual aspects - Connection between individuals and their environment - DYNAMIC! - Subjective How is health dynamic? - - Ever changing, never stagnant - It is a moving spectrum that is influenced by many diff aspects of life Medical Model of Health - - Health is the absence of disease - Dominant deeply entrenched perspective on health - Drives much of the decisions made today regarding provin...

how does the medical model define health? - as the absence of disease what are the 3 components of spirituality? - meaning, hope and greater purpose how does the WHO define health? - a state of complete physical, mental, social well-being, not just the absence of disease how does the behavioral model define health? - health is the product of making healthy lifestyle choices. it focuses on the prevention of disease and disability in people who are at risk because of their lifestyle how doe...

What is health? - -is a physical, social and emotional well-being and not merely in the absence of illness or disease -dynamic -constantly changing (on a continuum) -social and ecolgoical phenomium What is health influenced by? - -genetics -social -culture -psychology -spirituality Socio-environmental states: - -health is a product of social, economic and environmental determinants that provide incentives and barriers to individuals -back and forth interaction between people and thei...

What is MORAL REASONING? - Practical reasoning about WHAT someone is going to do about a situation - ETHICAL PRINCIPLES ARE USED TO SOLVE What practices are used during moral reasoning? - Ethical practices What is EVERYDAY ethics? - How nurses carry out their daily interactions - how they approach their practice - END OF DAY thinking about the ethical commitment to those that they serve daily What is ethics? - - General principles that can be applied to MORAL problems - About moral pract...

WHO and Health - a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being. Not merely the absence of disease Non-normative - Having morality without taking a moral position Consequences - What comes after a phenomenon Introspection - The cognitive exploration of one's thoughts, feelings, and perceptions Ethical Problems - Conflicts occurring between a person's values and their uncertainty Personal Meaning - A degree to which a person discovers how knowledge and information and findin...

2023 ATI RN EXIT EXAM FORM B /ACTUAL QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED CORRECT ANSWERS & EXPLANATIONS/A+ GRADE ASSURED A client with gout has been advised to lose weight. She informs the nurse that she plans to go on a "guaranteed rapid weight loss" plan that involves fasting and heavy exercise. Which response would be most appropriate? a) "The fasting is okay, but make sure you drink fluids when exercising." b) "Make sure to eat some fat occasionally with all that exercise." c) "Try combin...

MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. The nurse observes a coworker who is always behind because he checks and rechecks the accuracy of his medication dosages. Even after being reassured his dosages are correct, he checks them again. The nurse suspects her coworker suffers from which disorder? a. Perfectionism b. Phobic disorder c. Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) d. General anxiety disorder ANS: C When a person has an OCD, he experiences an obsession, recurrent, or intrusive thoughts that he cannot ...

MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. A 60-year-old man who had a prostatectomy 3 weeks earlier asks if the ongoing incontinence will ever stop: What should the nurse understand about this procedure in order to answer the patient? a. Postprostatectomy incontinence is usually permanent: b. Postprostatectomy incontinence usually clears up in 6 months: c. Although the constant dribbling will stop, stress incontinence will continue: d. Postprostatectomy incontinence frequently requires a second surgery to ...