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| What are the two overarching goals for Healthy People 2010? |
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1)To increase quality and years of healthy life.
2) to eliminate health disparities. |
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| What are the four areas of the Healthy People 2010? |
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| 1)Promoting healthy behaviors, 2) promoting healthy and safe communities, 3) improving systems for personal and public health, 4) preventing and reducing diseases and disorders |
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| What is the WHO's definition of health? |
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| "A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." |
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| What do Pender, Murdaugh, and Parsons define health as? |
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| The actualization of inherent and acquired human potential through goal-directed behavior, competent self-care, and satisfying relationships with others, while adjustments are made as needed to maintain structural integrity and harmony with the environment |
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| They are a person's ideas, convictions, and attitudes about health and illness. They can be based on fact, common sense, or myths. |
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What does the Health belief model address?
What does it predict? |
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| The relationship between a person's beliefs and behaviors. It predicts how clients will behave in relation to their health and how they will comply with health care therapies. |
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| What does the Health promotion model define health as? What is it directed at? |
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| a positive, dynamic statem, not merly the absence of disease. It is directed at increasing a client's level of well-being. |
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| What does the health promotion model focus on? |
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| 1) Individual characteristics and experiences, 2) behavioral specific knowledge and affect, 3) behavioral outcomes. |
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| In maslows hierarchy of needs starting with the most basic needs to least important needs list them. |
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1st Most Important:
Physiological;
Oxygen, fluids, nutrition, body temperature, elimination, shelter, sex.
2nd most important: Safety and security;
Physical safety, psychological safety.
3rd most important: Love and belonging needs
4th most important Self-esteem
5th most important Self-actualization. |
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| If following Maslow's hierarchy of needs is it required to always give the most important needs first? Explain. |
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| No, This is given by the example of a house fire. The physical safety is much more important than that of love and belonging needs. However, in the example of the mastectomy the needs of the patient to feel love, belonging, and self-esteem are often more important than pain control. |
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| What are some factors that have been reported to affect older adults willingness to engage in health promotion activities? |
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Definition
| They may include: Socioeconomic factors, beliefs and attitudes for clients and providers, encouragement by a health care professional, specific motivation based on efficacy beliefs, access to resources, age, number of chronic illnesses, mental and physical health, marital status, and cognitive status. |
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| What are teh stages of Health behavior change? |
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| Precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance stage. |
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| What are internal variables that influence health and health beliefs and practices? |
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Definition
| Developmental Stage, Intellectual background, perception of functioning, emotional factors, spiritual factors. |
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| What are external variables that influence health and health beliefs and practices? |
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Definition
| Family practices, socioeconomic factors, cultural background. |
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| What should a nurse consider when exploring information about cultures? |
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Definition
| We should consider beliefs, values, daily practices, spirituality, and their implications for the way a client understands illness, perceives treatment plans, and makes health care decisions. |
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| What are some implications for practice when working with a culture different than our own? |
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| Be aware of the impact of culture on a clien'ts view and understanding of illness. When teaching clients about their illness and treatment regiments, it is important for nurses to understand that unique cultural perceptions exist regarding the cause fo an illness and its treatment. We should focus on clients traditions, values, beliefs, and how these dimensions may affect health, wellness and illness. |
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| What could be health promotion activities? |
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| Routine exercise and good nutrition. |
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| Wellness education teaches people what? |
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| How to care for themselves in a healthy way and includes topics such as physical awareness, stress management, and self-responsibility. |
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| Give an example of an illness prevention activity. |
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Definition
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| What are some of the parts of primary prevention? Who does it focus on? |
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| Some parts aimed at are health education programs, immunizations, and physical and nutritional fitness activities. It focuses on the individual or general population, developing specific diseases, and general health of individuals, families, and communities. |
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What does secondary prevention focus on?
What are activities focused on? |
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Definition
| It focuses on individuals who are experiencing health problems or illnesses and who are at risk for developing complications or worsening conditions. Activities are focused on immediate interventions reducing severity and enabling the client to return to a normal level of health. |
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| What does tertiary prevention try to do for the patient? |
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Definition
| It involves minimizing the effects of long term disease or disability by interventions directed at preventing complications and deterioration. |
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| What are some risk factors? |
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| Genetic and physiological factors, age, environment, lifestyle, |
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| What is the first step in health promotion, wellness education, and illness prevention activities? |
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| a state in which a person's physical, emotional, intellectual, social, developmental, or spiritual functioning is diminished or impaired compared with previous experience. |
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| Is illness synonymous with disease? |
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| What are teaching strategies for helping with a lifestyle change? |
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| active listening-ask the client how he or she prefers to learn, get a baseline knowledge the patient has of health risks related to poor lifestyle. Ask what barriers and benefits he or she perceieves with the planned lifestyle change. assist in establishing goals for change. Establish time lines with the client for change, page 79 lists others. |
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| What are internal variables that influence illness and illness behavior? |
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1) If the illness disrupts their daily activities the patient is more likely to go for medical care.
2)If the patient thinks they are serious or lifethreatening they are more likely to come in.
3) extreme changes in health such as chest pains in the middle of the night can bring about an internal change. |
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| What are some external variables that inflence illness and illness behavior? |
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Definition
| visible symptoms of an illness, social groups that the patient belongs to, families, friends, etc. |
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