NU123 Health and Illness
Concepts Cumulative Review
Blaming others or the environment for unacceptable desires, thoughts,
shortcomings or mistakes.
✓- projection
Performing an action or using words designed to cancel some disapproved
thoughts, impulses or acts to relieve guilt through reparation
✓- undoing
Refusing to look at surgical incisions
✓- adjustment difficulty
Excessing blaming, isolation from others, apathy experienced when working
with helpless, suffering or traumatized people
✓- compassion fatigue
The priority intervention when working with PTSD
✓- safety
Recurrent nightmares may be symptoms of
✓- PTSD
Good stress associated with accomplishment and victory
✓- Eustress
Anxiety resulting in physical symptoms is what level
✓- severe
Physical activity can provide an outlet for
✓- anxiety
Calm, quiet spaces are good environment for a patient in __________ level
anxiety
✓- panic
An environment with reduced stimuli promotes
, ✓- calmness
A major risk factor for anxiety in older adults is
✓- loneliness
An opportunistic infection associated with HIV
✓- Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia
Spread through blood and bodily fluids
✓- HIV
The most important intervention for spread of infection
✓- Handwashing
Characterized by butterfly rash and painful, swollen joints
✓- Systemic lupus erythematosus
Overuse of _____________ can lead to skin irritation in SLE
✓- cosmetics
The first line of treatment for SLE
✓- corticosteroids
Hereditary immune deficiency can be identified by
✓- genetic testing
Lack of resources to access appropriate amounts and varieties of food
✓- food insecurity
Health effects due to insufficient or diminished nutrient intake or stores
✓- undernutrition
Lab test associated with protein levels
✓- albumin
Method of comparing weight to height as an indirect measure of body fat
✓- body mass index (BMI)
Concepts Cumulative Review
Blaming others or the environment for unacceptable desires, thoughts,
shortcomings or mistakes.
✓- projection
Performing an action or using words designed to cancel some disapproved
thoughts, impulses or acts to relieve guilt through reparation
✓- undoing
Refusing to look at surgical incisions
✓- adjustment difficulty
Excessing blaming, isolation from others, apathy experienced when working
with helpless, suffering or traumatized people
✓- compassion fatigue
The priority intervention when working with PTSD
✓- safety
Recurrent nightmares may be symptoms of
✓- PTSD
Good stress associated with accomplishment and victory
✓- Eustress
Anxiety resulting in physical symptoms is what level
✓- severe
Physical activity can provide an outlet for
✓- anxiety
Calm, quiet spaces are good environment for a patient in __________ level
anxiety
✓- panic
An environment with reduced stimuli promotes
, ✓- calmness
A major risk factor for anxiety in older adults is
✓- loneliness
An opportunistic infection associated with HIV
✓- Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia
Spread through blood and bodily fluids
✓- HIV
The most important intervention for spread of infection
✓- Handwashing
Characterized by butterfly rash and painful, swollen joints
✓- Systemic lupus erythematosus
Overuse of _____________ can lead to skin irritation in SLE
✓- cosmetics
The first line of treatment for SLE
✓- corticosteroids
Hereditary immune deficiency can be identified by
✓- genetic testing
Lack of resources to access appropriate amounts and varieties of food
✓- food insecurity
Health effects due to insufficient or diminished nutrient intake or stores
✓- undernutrition
Lab test associated with protein levels
✓- albumin
Method of comparing weight to height as an indirect measure of body fat
✓- body mass index (BMI)
