Midtermexa Flashcards
What is the Canadian health act based on?
1) Public administration
2) Comprehensiveness
3) Universality
4) Portability
5) Accessibility
The concept of ‘primary prevention’
Get a flushot every year
An example of ‘Tertiary Level Prevention’
A person with heart disease eating a low cholesterol, low sodium diet
Respecting a client’s beliefs is providing _______
Culturally competent care
A free mammogram clinic for women, is an example of ________.
True illness prevention
Culture
Basic beliefs, values, and lifestyles of a group of people
Wellness
Optimal level of functioning for an individual –> ability to adapt to different situations –>a feeling that everything is in balance
Secondary Level of Prevention, the intervention the nurse would use _______
performance of a biopsy
Epidemiology
The study of the natural history or course of a disease –>examines the relationsgips among disease, the environment, the individual and the community –> influences health promotion and protection
Illness is defined as a/an __________
Personal experience of feeling unhealthy
The health-illness continuum can be applied to define ‘health’ as a dynamic fluctuating state.
True/False
True
The ‘pillars of Primary Health Care’
THIA
1) teams
2) access
3) information
4) healthy living
Functioning at his/her optimal level, physically, mentally & socially, is considered ‘healthy’.
True/False
True
Providing immunizations against measles is an example of ______.
Primary prevention
The WHO definition of health
A state of complete physical, mental, and social wellness, not merely the absence of disease
5 broad prerequisites of health according to the Ottawa Charter
1) building healthy public policy
2) create supportive environments
3) strengthen community action
4) develop personal skills
5) reorient health services
Understand what a patient’s culture does NOT include.
Prescribed medications
What ‘Tertiary’ prevention focuses on?
Minimizing residual disability
The results of the ‘Romanow Commission’
Medicare is sustainable and must be preserved
To provide ‘Holistic Care’ to a client it is important to know a client’s _______ & __________.
Cultural & spirital beliefs
Person wakes with a headache and decides he/she is not well enough to go to work, this demonstrates the concept of illness.
True/False
True
The best way to provide culturally competent care is by ________.
Involve client and family in developing a plan of care
The ideal target group for a program on ‘handwashing’.
Fourth grade children at the local elementary school
Disease prevention
Action to avoid illness
