Faye Glenn Abdellah

Question 1

What is Faye Abdellah well known for?

Answer 1

development of the “Twenty-One Nursing Problems Theory”

Question 2

Abdellah’s nursing model is intended for?

Answer 2

intended to guide care in hospital institutions

Question 3

She is the first nurse and the first woman to serve as Deputy Surgeon General.

Answer 3

Faye Abdellah

Question 4

According to Abdellah, what is the purpose of nursing?

Answer 4

individual who are trying to achieve health

Question 5

Abdellah created a theory of twenty one areas of focus for nursing which was divided into three classes. What are these?

Answer 5

physical, sociological, and the emotional needs

Question 6

(True or False) Abdellah considers nursing to be comprehensive service that is based on art and science
and aims to help people, sick or well, cope with their health needs.

Answer 6

True

Question 7

the needs of patients are further divided into four categories. What are these?

Answer 7

Basic Needs
Sustenal Care Needs
Remedial Care Needs
Restorative Care Needs

Question 8

What are the Basic Needs of an individual patient?

Answer 8

1. to maintain good hygiene and physical comfort
2. promote optimal health through healthy activities, such as exercise, rest and sleep;
3. promote safety through the prevention of health
   hazards like accidents, injury or other trauma and through the prevention of
   the spread of infection
4. maintain good body mechanics and prevent or
   correct deformity.

Question 9

These are needs that needs facilitate the maintenance of a supply of oxygen to all body cells; facilitate the maintenance of nutrition of all body cells; facilitate the
maintenance of elimination; facilitate the maintenance of fluid and electrolyte balance; recognize the physiological responses of the body to disease conditions; facilitate the maintenance of regulatory mechanisms and functions; and facilitate the maintenance of sensory function.

Answer 9

Sustenal Care Needs

Question 10

This include the acceptance of the optimum possible goals in light of limitations, both physical and emotional; the use of community resources as an aid to resolving problems that arise from illness; and the
understanding of the role of social problems as influential factors in the case of illness.

Answer 10

Restorative Care Needs

Question 11

This is a type of need to identify and accept positive and negative expressions, feelings, and reactions; identify and accept the interrelatedness of emotions and organic illness; facilitate the maintenance of effective verbal and nonverbal communication

Answer 11

Remedial Care Needs

Question 12

This is described as the only justification for the existence of nursing.

Answer 12

Patient

Question 13

Abdellah describes the recipients of nursing as…

Answer 13

Individual

Question 14

(True or False) Abdellah describes people as having physical, emotional, and sociological needs.

Answer 14

True

Question 15

It is a state mutually
exclusive of illness.

Answer 15

Health

Question 16

It is an apparent condition faced by the patient or family, which the nurse can assist him or them to meet through the performance of her professional functions.

Answer 16

Overt nursing problem

Question 17

It is a concealed or hidden condition faced, by the patient or family, which the nurse can assist him or them to meet through the performance of her professional functions

Answer 17

Covert nursing problem

Question 18

She was witness to a German airship explosion.

Answer 18

Faye Abdellah

Question 19

She is the first nurse and the first woman to serve as Deputy Surgeon General.

Answer 19

Faye Abdellah

Question 20

state mutually exclusive of illness.

Answer 20

Health

Question 21

the home or community from which patient comes.

Answer 21

Environment

Question 22

(True or False) solving the covert problems may solve the overt problems as well.

Answer 22

True