NURSING FINAL SCRIPT 2026 FULL
QUESTIONS ANSWERS COMPREHENSIVE
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⩥ Health promotion.
Answer: The process of enabling people to increase control over, and to
improve, their health
⩥ Illness Prevention.
Answer: Health education programs or activities directed toward
protecting patients from threats or potential threats to health and
minimizing risk factors
⩥ Passive Health Promotion Strategies.
Answer: Ex. Fluoride in water, fortified foods
⩥ Active Health Promotion Strategies.
Answer: Ex. weight reduction, smoking-cessation
⩥ Levels of Preventive Care.
Answer: Primary, secondary, tertiary
,⩥ Primary Prevention.
Answer: True prevention, precedes disease or disfunction and applied to
patients considered physically and emotionally healthy
Includes: health education, vaccines, nutritional programs, fitness
activities
⩥ Secondary Prevention.
Answer: Focuses on individuals who are experiencing health problems
or illnesses and are at risk for developing complications or worsening
conditions
⩥ Tertiary Prevention.
Answer: Occurs when a defect or disability is permanent or irreversible;
involves minimizing the effects of long-term disease or disability by
interventions directed at preventing complications and deterioration
⩥ Risk Factor.
Answer: Any situation, habit, or other variable such as social,
environmental, physiological, psychological, developmental,
intellectual, or spiritual that increases the vulnerability of an individual
or group to an illness or accident
⩥ Transtheoretical Model of Change.
, Answer: 1. Precontemplation
2. Contemplation
3. Preparation
4. Action
5. Maintenance
⩥ Illness.
Answer: A state in which a person's physical, emotional, intellectual,
social, developmental, or spiritual functioning is diminished or impaired
⩥ Acute Illness.
Answer: A sudden illness from which a person is expected to recover
⩥ Chronic Illness.
Answer: Persists longer than 6 months, is irreversible, and affects
functioning in one or more systems
⩥ Illness Behavior.
Answer: Ways in which people monitor their bodies, define and interpret
their symptoms, take remedial actions, and use the health care system.
⩥ CHAPTER 16.
Answer: Nursing Assessment