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Question 1

What is the Canadian health act based on?

Answer 1

1) Public administration
2) Comprehensiveness
3) Universality
4) Portability
5) Accessibility

Question 2

The concept of ‘primary prevention’

Answer 2

Get a flushot every year

Question 3

An example of ‘Tertiary Level Prevention’

Answer 3

A person with heart disease eating a low cholesterol, low sodium diet

Question 4

Respecting a client’s beliefs is providing _______

Answer 4

Culturally competent care

Question 5

A free mammogram clinic for women, is an example of ________.

Answer 5

True illness prevention

Question 6

Culture

Answer 6

Basic beliefs, values, and lifestyles of a group of people

Question 7

Wellness

Answer 7

Optimal level of functioning for an individual –> ability to adapt to different situations –>a feeling that everything is in balance

Question 8

Secondary Level of Prevention, the intervention the nurse would use _______

Answer 8

performance of a biopsy

Question 9

Epidemiology

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Illness is defined as a/an __________

Answer 10

Personal experience of feeling unhealthy

Question 11

The health-illness continuum can be applied to define ‘health’ as a dynamic fluctuating state.
True/False

Answer 11

True

Question 12

The ‘pillars of Primary Health Care’

Answer 12

THIA

1) teams
2) access
3) information
4) healthy living

Question 13

Functioning at his/her optimal level, physically, mentally & socially, is considered ‘healthy’.
True/False

Answer 13

True

Question 14

Providing immunizations against measles is an example of ______.

Answer 14

Primary prevention

Question 15

The WHO definition of health

Answer 15

A state of complete physical, mental, and social wellness, not merely the absence of disease

Question 16

5 broad prerequisites of health according to the Ottawa Charter

Answer 16

1) building healthy public policy
2) create supportive environments
3) strengthen community action
4) develop personal skills
5) reorient health services

Question 17

Understand what a patient’s culture does NOT include.

Answer 17

Prescribed medications

Question 18

What ‘Tertiary’ prevention focuses on?

Answer 18

Minimizing residual disability

Question 19

The results of the ‘Romanow Commission’

Answer 19

Medicare is sustainable and must be preserved

Question 20

To provide ‘Holistic Care’ to a client it is important to know a client’s _______ & __________.

Answer 20

Cultural & spirital beliefs

Question 21

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

Answer 21

True

Question 22

The best way to provide culturally competent care is by ________.

Answer 22

Involve client and family in developing a plan of care

Question 23

The ideal target group for a program on ‘handwashing’.

Answer 23

Fourth grade children at the local elementary school

Question 24

Disease prevention

Answer 24

Action to avoid illness

Question 25

The ‘determinants’ of family health

Answer 25

Financial resources, education, housing

Question 26

What does the Medicare system provide?

Answer 26

Free access of medically necessary services to all Canadians

Question 27

What education program would be provided by the nurse at the ‘Tertiary level’?

Answer 27

Cardiac rehabilitation

Question 28

Concept of time varies from one cultjre to another. How can the nurse integrate the relationship of time to nursing interventions?

Answer 28

Maintain a flexible attitude and not become upset when the client wants procedures done at non-traditional times

Question 29

Wellness

Question 30

The ‘greatest determinant’ of health affecting Canadians

Answer 30

Income & social status

Question 31

_______ is an important approach to health promotion that is based on ______ to reduce risk behaviour consequences.

Answer 31

Harm reduction;offering alternatives

Question 32

The concept of ‘Holistic Health’

Answer 32

Interactions between mental, physical and social dimensions

Question 33

A prenatal nutrition class, is an example of ________.

Answer 33

True health promotion

Question 34

Maslow’s heirarchy of needs in order.

starting at the most basic needs first

Answer 34

1) Physiologic needs
2) Safety and security
3) belongingness and affection
4) Esteem and self-respect
5) self-actualization