Ch. 6 Health and Wellness Flashcards
what is healthy people?
- provides evidence-based or research-based
- provides 10 years of National Objectives for promoting health and diseases
- identifies leading health indicators
what is an example of healthy people?
to reduce the # of people with diabetes in the population
what is an example of leading health indicators?
Injury (motor vehicle accidents)
Violence prevention (domestic violence)
what is Healthy People 2030?
will promote a holistic approach to health promotion and disease prevention
what is the definition of health?
based on a person’s values, personality, and lifestyle
- by looking at social, family support, cultural, and spiritual approach
what is health beliefs?
a person’s ideas, beliefs, and attitude toward health and illness
what is health behaviors?
encourage with the patient
what are examples of positive health behaviors?
encouraging patients:
- to get immunizations
- getting enough sleep/ exercise
- stress management
- nutrition
what are example of negative health behaviors?
discourage
- smoking/ alcohol/ drugs
- poor diet
- the patient not taking their medication
what is the health belief model?
- individuals’ susceptibility to an illness
- individuals’ perception of the seriousness of the illness
- the likelihood that a person will take preventive action
what is an individuals’ susceptibility to an illness?
what is their genetic background
- ex: the dad and brother has cancer
what is an individual’s perception of the seriousness of the illness?
does this person view this seriously and will take preventable actions
what is the likelihood that a person will take preventive action?
if the person views it seriously, they will take preventable actions, but if they don’t they are less likely to take preventable actions
As part of a faith community nursing program in her church, a nurse is developing a health promotion program on breast self-examination for the women’s group. Which statement made by one of the participants is related to the individual’s accurate perception of susceptibility to an illness?
A. “I have a door hanging tag in my bathroom to remind me to do my breast self-examination monthly.”
B. “Since my mother had breast cancer, I know that I am at increased risk for developing breast cancer.”
C. “Since I am only 25 years of age, the risk of breast cancer for me is very low.”
D. “I participate every year in our local walk/run to raise money for breast cancer research.”
B. “Since my mother had breast cancer, I know that I am at increased risk for developing breast cancer.”
what is the health promotion model?
you have to look at the patient’s:
- individual characteristics and experience
- behavior- specific knowledge and affect
- behavioral outcomes
what is an example of individual characteristics and experience?
people who smoke with lung cancer
what is an example of behavior-specific knowledge and affect?
smoking sensation classes can teach them things that are bad with smoking and change behaviors
what is an example of behavioral outcomes?
changing their behavior and knowledge with smoking
- always make outcomes (goals)
what is Maslow Hierarchy of Needs?
meeting the psychological needs first (basic needs- food, water, open airway, shelter)
- then going higher to safety and security, love and belonging, self- esteem, and self0 actualization
what is the holistic health model?
need to take care of the patient holistically
- ex: when a person is in pain, we don’t want to pass out meds, we want to teach the patient imagery, prayer, music, vitamin/herbs, deep breathing
According to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, which of these needs would the patient seek to meet first?
A. Self-actualization
B. Self-esteem
C. Shelter
D. Love and belonging
C. Shelter
A nurse is conducting a home visit with a new mom and her three children. While in the home the nurse weighs each family member and reviews their 3-day food diary. She checks the mom’s blood pressure and encourages the mom to take the children for a 15- to 30-minute walk every day. The nurse is addressing which level of need, according to Maslow?
A. Physiological
B. Safety and security
C. Love and belonging
D. Self-actualization
A. Physiological
When taking care of patients, a nurse routinely asks whether they take any vitamins or herbal medications, encourages family members to bring in music that the patient likes to help the patient relax, and frequently prays with her patients if that is important to them. The nurse is practicing which model?
A. Holistic
B. Health belief
C. Transtheoretical
D. Health promotion
A. Holistic
what are internal variables?
- development stage
- intellectual background
- perception of functioning
- emotional factors
- spiritual factors
what is the developmental stage?
working with children experiencing fear and anxiety in the hospitals
what is the intellectual background?
“what is the highest grade you completed”
- want to gear our teaching to that education level