NURS 231 Exam 3 Questions With Verified
Answers 2024/2025
What is health?
-a state of complete physical, mental, and social well being, not merely the absence of disease or
infirmity
-a state of being that define as relation to their own values, personality, and lifestyle
What are the 6 dimensions of health?
-emotional health
-intellectual health
-spiritual health
-occupational health
-social health
-physical health
What is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?
-motivational theory in psychology comprising of a five tier model of human needs
-you must satisfy lower levels before moving up to higher levels
What are the 5 levels of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?
(from bottom to top)
1. physiological needs
2. safety needs
3. love/belonging needs
4. esteem needs
5. self-actualization needs
What is the Holistic Health Model?
-relationships between mind, body, and spirit (the essence of nursing and holism
-optimal health is reached when there is emotional, spiritual, social, cultural, and physical wellness
-health is subjective
-patient is expert on themselves and is responsible and empowered to maintain health or recover
from illness
-alternative therapies and conventional medicine involved
What is illness?
a state in which a person's physical, emotional, intellectual, social, developmental, or spiritual
function is diminished or impaired
What is chronic illness?
persists longer than 6 months
What is acute illness?
short duration and severe
What is illness behavior?
-involves how people monitor their bodies and define and interpret their symptoms
-influenced by many variables and must be considered by the nurse when planning care
,-internal and external variables
What are internal variables of illness behavior?
personality characteristics plays a major role in how one manages illness
What are external variables of illness behavior?
past experiences and cultural group membership
Who was Dorothea Orem?
-came up with the self care theory of nursing
-developed the theory of the nursing system
What is the theory of the nursing system?
focuses on supportive education type relationship between the nurse and the patient for someone
with a self-care deficit
Who is Nola Pender?
-one of the roles of nurses is to help patients learn to care for themselves and make healthy choices
-patients can help prevent illnesses through their behaviors and choices
-developed the Health Promotion Model
What is the Health Promotion Model?
-focuses on helping people achieve higher levels of well being
-encourages health care providers to provide positive resources to help patients achieve behavior
specific changes
-goal is not necessarily helping patients prevent illness through their behaviors, but to look at ways a
patient can pursue better health
What is the Health Beliefs Model?
-used to guide health promotion and disease prevention programs; used to explain and predict
individual changes in health behaviors, most widely used models for understanding health behaviors
-the focus is on individual beliefs about health conditions which predict health-related behaviors
-people will take preventable action if they feel the threat of health risk to be serious, if they feel
personally susceptible
What are key factors that influence health behaviors?
An individuals perceived:
-threat of sickness or disease (perceived susceptibility)
-belief of consequence (perceived severity)
-potential positive benefits of action (perceived benefits)
-perceived barriers to action
-exposure to facts that prompt action (cues to action)
-confidence in ability to succeed (self-efficacy)
What is self-efficacy?
-an individuals belief in his or her capacity to execute behaviors necessary to produce specific
performance attainments
-reflects confidence in the ability to control your own behavior, emotions, and motivations
, What is locus of control?
-people tend to be influenced by either an internal or external view of control
-how strongly people believe they have control over the situations and experiences that affect their
lives
What is holism in nursing?
-treating the whole person
-taking into account mental and social factors rather than just symptoms of a disease
What are internal variables that affect health beliefs and practices?
-developmental stage
-intellectual background/health literacy
-emotional/psychological factors
-genetics
Can you modify internal variables?
no
Can you modify external variables?
sometimes
What are external variables that affect health beliefs and practices?
-socioeconomic factors
-the internet
-geography
What is health promotion?
-positive approach to living
-proactive, protective view of health
-emphasis is on the promotion of healthy lifestyles and habits
What is disease prevention?
-to detect health problems early
-reactionary stand on health
-restraint or avoidance of things that lead to a specific disease or disorder
What are the levels of disease prevention?
-primary
-secondary
-tertiary
What is the primary level of disease prevention?
true prevention that lowers the chances that a disease will develop
What is the secondary level of disease prevention?
Answers 2024/2025
What is health?
-a state of complete physical, mental, and social well being, not merely the absence of disease or
infirmity
-a state of being that define as relation to their own values, personality, and lifestyle
What are the 6 dimensions of health?
-emotional health
-intellectual health
-spiritual health
-occupational health
-social health
-physical health
What is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?
-motivational theory in psychology comprising of a five tier model of human needs
-you must satisfy lower levels before moving up to higher levels
What are the 5 levels of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?
(from bottom to top)
1. physiological needs
2. safety needs
3. love/belonging needs
4. esteem needs
5. self-actualization needs
What is the Holistic Health Model?
-relationships between mind, body, and spirit (the essence of nursing and holism
-optimal health is reached when there is emotional, spiritual, social, cultural, and physical wellness
-health is subjective
-patient is expert on themselves and is responsible and empowered to maintain health or recover
from illness
-alternative therapies and conventional medicine involved
What is illness?
a state in which a person's physical, emotional, intellectual, social, developmental, or spiritual
function is diminished or impaired
What is chronic illness?
persists longer than 6 months
What is acute illness?
short duration and severe
What is illness behavior?
-involves how people monitor their bodies and define and interpret their symptoms
-influenced by many variables and must be considered by the nurse when planning care
,-internal and external variables
What are internal variables of illness behavior?
personality characteristics plays a major role in how one manages illness
What are external variables of illness behavior?
past experiences and cultural group membership
Who was Dorothea Orem?
-came up with the self care theory of nursing
-developed the theory of the nursing system
What is the theory of the nursing system?
focuses on supportive education type relationship between the nurse and the patient for someone
with a self-care deficit
Who is Nola Pender?
-one of the roles of nurses is to help patients learn to care for themselves and make healthy choices
-patients can help prevent illnesses through their behaviors and choices
-developed the Health Promotion Model
What is the Health Promotion Model?
-focuses on helping people achieve higher levels of well being
-encourages health care providers to provide positive resources to help patients achieve behavior
specific changes
-goal is not necessarily helping patients prevent illness through their behaviors, but to look at ways a
patient can pursue better health
What is the Health Beliefs Model?
-used to guide health promotion and disease prevention programs; used to explain and predict
individual changes in health behaviors, most widely used models for understanding health behaviors
-the focus is on individual beliefs about health conditions which predict health-related behaviors
-people will take preventable action if they feel the threat of health risk to be serious, if they feel
personally susceptible
What are key factors that influence health behaviors?
An individuals perceived:
-threat of sickness or disease (perceived susceptibility)
-belief of consequence (perceived severity)
-potential positive benefits of action (perceived benefits)
-perceived barriers to action
-exposure to facts that prompt action (cues to action)
-confidence in ability to succeed (self-efficacy)
What is self-efficacy?
-an individuals belief in his or her capacity to execute behaviors necessary to produce specific
performance attainments
-reflects confidence in the ability to control your own behavior, emotions, and motivations
, What is locus of control?
-people tend to be influenced by either an internal or external view of control
-how strongly people believe they have control over the situations and experiences that affect their
lives
What is holism in nursing?
-treating the whole person
-taking into account mental and social factors rather than just symptoms of a disease
What are internal variables that affect health beliefs and practices?
-developmental stage
-intellectual background/health literacy
-emotional/psychological factors
-genetics
Can you modify internal variables?
no
Can you modify external variables?
sometimes
What are external variables that affect health beliefs and practices?
-socioeconomic factors
-the internet
-geography
What is health promotion?
-positive approach to living
-proactive, protective view of health
-emphasis is on the promotion of healthy lifestyles and habits
What is disease prevention?
-to detect health problems early
-reactionary stand on health
-restraint or avoidance of things that lead to a specific disease or disorder
What are the levels of disease prevention?
-primary
-secondary
-tertiary
What is the primary level of disease prevention?
true prevention that lowers the chances that a disease will develop
What is the secondary level of disease prevention?
