Chapter 1 Health Defined

Question 1

1. Health is considered to be a metaparadigm for nursing and includes which of the following components?
   a) Person
   b) Health
   c) Environment
   d) Nursing
   e) Psychosocial wellness

Answer 1

a) Person
b) Health
c) Environment
d) Nursing

Question 2

2. The nurse is teaching about primary prevention and includes which educational statement in the instructions?
   a) Everyone should participate in colorectal cancer screening.
   b) Health teaching about the risk factors of heart disease should be performed.
   c) Limiting disability is a vital role of nursing since preventive measures are therapeutic.
   d) The nurse is involved in minimizing the effects of disease and disability by surveillance and maintenance
   b) Health teaching about the risk factors of heart disease should be performed.

Answer 2

b) Health teaching about the risk factors of heart disease should be performed.

Question 3

3. In addition to changes in ethnic and racial distribution within the population, it is expected that changes in __ distribution will affect health-promotion practice.
   a) geographical
   b) environmental
   c) age
   d) social

Answer 3

c) age

Question 4

4. Which of the following statements accurately reflects the concept of primordial prevention?
   a) It concerns interventions directed at the fetus while in utero to assure lifelong health.
   b) It is a more modern term used interchangeably with primary prevention.
   c) It is a health-promotion strategy which reflects policy-level interventions.
   d) It refers administering vaccines to prevent individuals from ever developing the disease.

Answer 4

c) It is a health-promotion strategy which reflects policy-level interventions.

Question 5

5. The client who would be least likely to participate in health teaching activities would choose which model?
   a. Clinical model
   b. Adaptive model
   c. Rolre performance model
   d. Eudaimonistic model

Answer 5

a. Clinical model

Question 6

6. Which of the following agencies or initiatives have been driving forces in heakth care reform and the prevention of disease in society
   a) Healthy People
   b) Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
   c) US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
   d) Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
   e) US Department of Health and Human Services

Answer 6

a) Healthy People
c) US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
e) US Department of Health and Human Services

Question 7

7. Four distinct models have been used to describe concepts of health. Which of the following statements accurately describe some of the models used?
   a) In the clinical health model, health and illness are defined by achieving age-related activity standards
   b) The role performance model of health defines health in terms of individuals’ ability to perform social roles.
   c) The clinical model is the basis for occupational health evaluations.
   d) In the adaptive model of health, people’s ability to adjust positively to social, mental, and physiological change is the measure of their health.
   e) In the eudaimonistic model, exuberant well-being indicates optimal health.

Answer 7

b) The role performance model of health defines health in terms of individuals’ ability to perform social roles.
c) The clinical model is the basis for occupational health evaluations.
e) In the eudaimonistic model, exuberant well-being indicates optimal health.

Question 8

8. Nurses in the school setting can participate in health-promotion activities through creating nut-free schools. This would protect hypersensitive children from life-threatening allergic reactions to peanuts and other nut products. This type of program is an example of which of the following?
   a. Primary
   b. Secondary
   c. Tertiary
   d. Emergent

Answer 8

a. Primary

Question 9

9. Public health nurses are involved in supporting active health-promotion strategies such as:
   a. Supporting clean water
   b. Advocating for vitamin D in all milk
   c. Supporting sanitary sewage systems
   d. Participating in an individual daily exercise program

Answer 9

d. Participating in an individual daily exercise program

Question 10

10. Which of the following is one of the four overarching goals for Healthy People 2020?

a) Decrease tobacco use in youth throughout the nation.
b) Achieve health equity and eliminate disparity for all groups.
c) Increase funding for universal health insurance especially for the indigent
d) Decrease hospital readmission for medical and surgical patients.

Answer 10

b) Achieve health equity and eliminate disparity for all groups.