Week 1

Question 1

Health

Answer 1

The state of being free of injury or illness

Question 2

Wellness

Answer 2

an active state of being healthy by living a lifestyle that promotes good physical mental emotional and spiritual health

Question 3

Function

Answer 3

Levels reflected in terms of performance / social expectations

Question 4

Illness

Answer 4

The physical manifestation of disease and the subjective experience of the individual

Question 5

Disease

Answer 5

A disorder of the structure or function of the body

Question 6

Disability

Answer 6

Impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activity

Question 7

What is health promotion?

Answer 7

Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over and improve their health.

Question 8

What is the nurse’s role in promoting health promotion?

Answer 8

Nurses promote health by identifying analyzing and maximizing each patient’s own individual strengths as components of preventing illness restoring health and facilitating coping with disability or death.

Question 9

What are the objectives of healthy people 2020 and how does that relate to the health status of different populations?

Answer 9

Attain high quality longer lives free of preventable disease disability injury and premature death. Achieve health equity eliminate disparities and improve the health of all groups. Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all. Promote quality of life health development and healthy behaviors across all life stages.

Question 10

What are the major provisions of the ACA and what are the impact on nurses and vulnerable patient population?

Answer 10

Insurance reform- requiring more people to be covered. Offering more benefits and protection to patients. No pre-existing conditions. No lifetime limits. Covered under parents up to age 26. Preventable care is free. Expand Medicaid in some states.
Health system reform - improved quality and efficiency. Stronger workforce and infrastructure. Greater focus on public health and prevention.

Question 11

What are the three levels of prevention?

Answer 11

Primary-prevent a disease of condition from occurring in the first place i.e. public health and immunization.

Secondary - identify disease at its earliest stage so thatprompt and appropriate management can be initiated to reduce the impact of the disease. i.e. screenings such as pop colonoscopy and lipids, as well as early disease management.

Tertiary - reduce or minimize consequences of a disease once it has developed also eliminating or delaying complications and disability due to a disease. i.e. chemotherapy, surgery, and mitigation for treatments of complications.

Question 12

What are the six dimensions of wellness?

Answer 12

Occupational.
Physical.
Social.
Intellectual.
Spiritual.
Emotional.

Question 13

What are the social determinants of health?

Answer 13

Factors that are responsible for most health and equities.

social determinants of health are shaped by the distribution of money power and resources throughout social communities nations and the world.

Question 14

Vulnerable populations

Answer 14

a subgroup of population that is more likely to develop health problems or have more health outcomes as a result of exposure or risk.

( Including but not limited to environmental or genetic risks )

Question 15

Nursing role

Answer 15

Advocate.
Care manager.
Consultant.
Deliverer of services.
Educator.
Healer. 
researcher.

Question 16

What is provision five of the ANA code of ethics?

Answer 16

The nurse ow es the same duties to self and to others including the responsibility to promote health and safety, preserve wholeness of character and integrity, maintain competency and continue personal and professional growth.