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NU 116 module 1 Questions and Answers
_________________ Prevention used to identify people in an early stage of disease process to limit
future disability. - Ans:✔✔-Secondary
___________________ prevention focuses on early identification, screening, and prompt measures
(interventions) to alleviate health problems - Ans:✔✔-Secondary
These are examples of _______________ prevention:
Breast and testicular self exam, regular BP checks, Physical exams, diabetes and TB screenings - Ans:✔✔-
Secondary
These are examples of _____________ level prevention:
Eating healthy food, exercising, wearing sun screen, wearing a seat belt, up to date immunizations -
Ans:✔✔-Primary
Level of prevention that is used to decrease the risk of exposure and slow the onset of disease. -
Ans:✔✔-Primary
What date the 3 levels of illness prevention - Ans:✔✔-Primary, Secondary, Tertiary
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Avoiding the development of disease in the future. Measures to limit the progression of disease -
Ans:✔✔-Health Protection (illness prevention)
The desire to increase well being - Ans:✔✔-Health Promotion
A desire to avoid illness - Ans:✔✔-Health Protection
A way of thinking with the desire to increase wellness.
Programs that help change behaviors of people and their living environment through education. -
Ans:✔✔-Health Promotion
Level of prevention that is used to stop disease progression and return the person to the best level of
function. - Ans:✔✔-Tertiary Prevention
Level of prevention that focuses on Restoration and Rehabilitation. - Ans:✔✔-Tertiary Prevention
Rehabilitation after knee surgery is an example of what level of prevention? - Ans:✔✔-Tertiary
prevention
List the 7 components of wellness - Ans:✔✔-Physical, Social,Emotional, Intellectual, Spiritual,
Occupational, Environmental
a complete state of physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease -
Ans:✔✔-Health
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an active process in which people make choices towards a more healthy existence and total life style.
Individual definition is affected by age, expectations of self, socio-cultural influences and pervious
experiences. - Ans:✔✔-Wellness
wellness continuum that ranges from high level wellness to premature death - Ans:✔✔-Travis's illness
ranges from high level wellness to premature dealth, TO increase levels of health it occurs in 3 steps:
awareness, education and growth
Travis's continuum has a neutral point of "no discernible illness or wellness" as its center, it is
appropriate to initiate treatment at any point along the continuum to move the patient toward a higher
level of wellness. - Ans:✔✔-Travis's Illness-Wellness Continuum
Travis's Illness-Wellness Continuum - Ans:✔✔-
List the 5 types of comfort measures - Ans:✔✔-Empathy, Positive Talk, Therapeutic Touch, Physical and
Technical Skills, Vigilance
____________________ are initiated when the nurses perceives a client's distress or discomfort or
indicates a need for comforting. Comfort care may include simple to complex actions and the goal is to
enhance the level of comfort - Ans:✔✔-Comfort measures
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