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NU 116 Exam 1 Review Questions and
Answers
What is Nursing? - Ans:✔✔-diagnosis of how body responds to a disease + treatment
Who is the Consumer? - Ans:✔✔--Patient
-Person seeking care
What is Health? - Ans:✔✔-a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the
absence of disease or infirmity
What is Wellness? - Ans:✔✔-An active process where people make choices towards better health.
health = wellness
Influences on Health Care - Ans:✔✔--Shifts in population
-Increased Diversity
-Increased Tech
-Higher Health Costs
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-Change to health care financing
What is Evidence-Based Practice? - Ans:✔✔-Theories.
-set of ideas + concepts that can be changed
Healthy People 2030 - Ans:✔✔-Goal is to reduce illness, disability and premature death in communities
by 2030.
Health Care Concepts Today - Ans:✔✔--increased complexity of care
-behavioral + social detriments of health
-available + new tech
-new approaches to population management
-interprofessional care practice
How to have Effective Communication? - Ans:✔✔--establish a raport
-maintain eye contact
-listen
-pay attention to nonverbal cues
-avoid medical jargon
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summarize at the end of the visit
Effective Communication is ....? - Ans:✔✔-Valid Research.
Triple Aim of Health Care - Ans:✔✔-Saving pt's the per capita costs
-improve population
-improve pt care experience
Maslows Hierarchy - Ans:✔✔-A theory that arranges the five basic needs of people—physiological,
security, social, esteem, and self-actualization—into the order in which people strive to satisfy them
*Physiological needs are the basic needs that need to be met first!*
Health Promotion - Ans:✔✔-Focus on making alterations to pt's lifestyles and habits to improve health
Ex) stress reduction + nutritional awareness
Older Adult - Ans:✔✔-Health Conscious + Maintaining Independence
QSEN? What does it mean? - Ans:✔✔-Quality + Safety Education for Nurses
QSEN Care Competencies - Ans:✔✔--provides pt centered care
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