CHP 6 Health Promotion and the Individual

Question 1

What do nurses practice in health promotion?

Answer 1

Assess patterns

Use their assessment findings to facilitate individuals’ maintenance of or progression toward wellness

Question 2

Why is it important to perform a health promotion assessment?

Answer 2

It target strategies to prevent illness

Question 3

The framework of holistic nursing is congruent with…

Answer 3

identifying individuals’ assets and using strength-based assessment

Question 4

What four American Holistic Nursing Association’s core values make up Holism?

Answer 4

Philosophy
Self-care
Holistic nursing process
Holistic/therapeutic communication

Question 5

What do nurses identify in strength-based assessment and what strategies that it lead to?

Answer 5

They identify individuals’ harmonious patterns of health and these strengths and resilience provide a foundation to empower individuals through role modeling, encouragement, and self-advocacy.

Question 6

What activities has been performed by Healthy People since 1979?

Answer 6

Established nation goals

Provided a framework for prevention

Published national health objectives building on the original Healthy People initiative that aim to identify the most significant preventable threats to health

Question 7

What are the overall goals of healthy people?

Answer 7

Attaining high-quality longer lives

Decreasing health disparity

Create environments that promote health and improve the quality of life for all

Question 8

How does nursing play a part in health in the United States and worldwide?

Answer 8

Nursing plays an integral part in national initiatives for health promotion and prevention of disease and incorporating autonomous, collaborative care for people of all ages

The scope of nursing practice provides the ideal foundation for leadership globally

Question 9

How can the nurse use asset-based approaches to care?

Answer 9

They use assessment strategies which includes health promotion that address interactions among an individual’s biophysical state, psychosocial state, spiritual state, and patterns with the environment

Also use primary prevention techniques which includes generalized health promotion and specific protection from disease

Question 10

Which component of a health promotion assessment differs from other assessments?

Answer 10

Targets strategies to prevent illness

Question 11

Which statement describes the underlying belief of nursing research in relation to health promotion?

Answer 11

Includes the identification of assets

Empowerment of individuals is the goal

The foundation is a strength-based assessment

Strategies include role-modeling and encouraging

Question 12

Which nursing action is an asset-based approach to care?

Answer 12

Concentrating on strengths

Question 13

Effective health assessment considers both…

Answer 13

Physiologic parameters

How the human interacts with the whole environment

Question 14

What are the philosophical foundation of Gordon’s functional health patterns and what does it provide?

Answer 14

Holism and the totality of the person’s interactions with the environment

Provides the context for collecting data that provides information about the entire person and most life process
Framework to assess individuals, families, and communities holistically
Strong underpinning for more effective nursing interventions and outcomes

Question 15

What are the five focus areas of Gordon’s functional health patterns?

Answer 15

Pattern

Individual-environmental

Age-developmental

Functional

Cultural

Question 16

What are Erikson’s eight life stages?

Answer 16

Infancy: trust vs basic mistrust
Early childhood: autonomy vs shame and doubt
Late childhood: initiative vs guilt
Early adolescence: industry vs inferiority
Adolescence: identity vs role confusion
Early adulthood: intimacy vs isolation
Middle adulthood: generativity vs stagnation
Maturity: ego integrity vs despair

Question 17

What are the aspects of a nursing assessment?

Answer 17

Components: subjective data, objective data

Function: Description of person’s health status

Structure: Organization of interdependent parts describing health, function or patterns of behavior that reflect the whole individual and environment

Process: interview, observation, and examination

Format: Systematic but flexible; individualized to each person, nurse, and situation

Goal: Identification of areas of strengths, imitations, alterations, responses to alterations and therapies, and risks

Question 18

Which statement supports the philosophical foundation of Gordon’s functional health patterns?

Answer 18

Promotes outcomes that improve health and well-being

Question 19

Which influence controls the nutritional intake for a family, according to Gordon’s individual-environmental pattern?

Answer 19

Although the intake of an individual is influenced by factors such as preferences and ability to consume food, the person responsible for obtaining and serving the food controls the nutritional intake for a family.

Question 20

Which statement describes the use of functional focus by the nurse to understand a person’s health status?

Answer 20

Determines effect of performance level on lifestyle

Question 21

Which statement describes the role of nursing in health promotion initiative?

Answer 21

Nurses are an integral part of initiatives to promote health and prevent disease

Question 22

Which statement describing Erikson’s theory of development is accurate?

Answer 22

Individuals outside the normative group may be excluded

Question 23

Which statement describes a function of Healthy People?

Answer 23

Provides a framework for prevention