Health And Wellness

Question 1

Maslow’s basic human needs

Answer 1

Level 1 –physiological needs
Level 2 – safety and security needs
Level 3 – love and belonging
Level 4 – self-esteem
Level 5 – Self-actualization

Question 2

Risk factors

Answer 2

• Genetic and physiological factors
• age
• environment
• lifestyle

Question 3

Health

Answer 3

A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease

Question 4

illness

Answer 4

State in which a person’s physical, emotional, intellectual, social, development, or spiritual functioning is diminished or impaired

Question 5

Passive strategies of health promotion

Answer 5

Individuals gain from the activities of others without acting themselves. Ex) milk with vitamin D, fluoride in water

Question 6

Acute illness

Answer 6

Reversible, short duration, often severe, symptoms appear abruptly in our intense often subside after a short period. Medication helps symptoms

Question 7

Chronic Illness

Answer 7

Persists, usually longer than six months, irreversible, affects functioning of one or more symptoms, medication sometimes doesn’t help

Question 8

Health – illness continuum

Answer 8

Health is a dynamic state that is continually changing as a person adapt to changes in the internal and external environments to maintain a state of physical, emotional, intellectual, social, developmental, and spiritual well-being

Question 9

High level wellness

Answer 9

Concept of optimal health that emphasizes the integration of the body, mind, and environment to maximize the function of an individual

Question 10

Active strategies of health promotion

Answer 10

Individuals are motivated to adopt specific health programs

Ex) Weight reduction, stop smoking

Question 11

Tertiary prevention

Answer 11

Occurs when a deficit or disability is permanent and irreversible, minimizing effects of long-term disease/disability. Rehabilitation rather then diagnosis and treatment

Question 12

Secondary prevention

Answer 12

Focuses on individuals who are experiencing health problems or illness and are at risk for developing complications or worsening condition. Screening techniques, treating disease to delay consequences

Question 13

Primary prevention

Answer 13

True prevention, proceeds disease or dysfunction and applied to patients considered healthy. Health promotion, education, immunization, fitness activities

Question 14

Self-concept

Answer 14

Idea of the self constructed from beliefs about oneself

Question 15

wellness

Answer 15

The state or condition of being in good physical and mental health

Question 16

Illness behavior

Answer 16

How people monitor their bodies, define and interpret their symptoms, take remedial actions, and use the resources in the healthcare system

Question 17

Variables influencing health, health believes, practices

Answer 17

Internal variables – developmental stage, intellectual background, perception of functioning, emotional, spiritual.
External variables – family practices, Socioeconomic factors, cultural background.

Question 18

Five leading causes of death in the United States

Answer 18

1. Heart disease 2. Cancer 3. Stroke 4. Chronic lower respiratory disease 5. Accidents

Question 19

Outpatient

Answer 19

Patient was not hospitalized overnight visits for diagnosis or treatment

Question 20

Issues in the healthcare delivery

Answer 20

Nursing shortage
Availability
Affordability of care
Special needs of the chronically ill in elderly

Question 21

Prospective payment system

Answer 21

A method of reimbursement in which Medicare payment is made based on a predetermined, fixed amount

Question 22

Respite care

Answer 22

Temporary institutional care of a dependent elderly, ill, or handicapped person, providing relief for their usual caregivers

Question 23

Medicare

Answer 23

Federally funded ministry to program by the common wealth funds for people 65 years and older.
Part A-Basic protection
Part B-voluntary medical insurance
Part C-managed care provision, provide a choice of three insurance plans
Part D-voluntary prescription drug improvement

Question 24

Medicaid

Answer 24

Federally funded, State operated, provides health insurance to low income families, Health assistance to low income people with long-term care disabilities, supplemental coverage and long term care assistance to older adults and Medicare beneficiaries in nursing homes

Question 25

Diagnosis – related group

Answer 25

Group of patients classified to establish a mechanism for health care reimbursement based on length of stay. Classification is based on the following; primary and secondary to diagnosis, comorbidities, primary and secondary procedures, and age

Question 26

Preferred provider organization

Answer 26

Comprehensive health care plan offered to corporate employees that allows them to choose their own physicians and hospitals within certain limits

Question 27

Dimensions of wellness

Answer 27

1. Social-cultural 2. Physical 3. Mental 4. Spiritual 5. Emotional 6. Environmental 7. Financial 8. Occupational

Question 28

What are the Kubler-Ross stages of grieving?

Answer 28

1.denial 2.anger 3.bargaining 4.depression 5.acceptance

Question 29

What concept identified by the nurse is basic to the health-illness continuum model?

Answer 29

There is no distinct boundary between health and illness along the continuum

Question 30

Freedom of pain is what level in Maslow’s hierarchy of needs?

Answer 30

Safety and security

Question 31

The health belief model attempts to explain and predict health behaviors and focuses on what?

Answer 31

Constructs associated with perceived threat and net belief