NU129 Fundamentals Exam 1 Study Guide

NU129 Fundamentals Exam 1 Study Guide Health - Ans:-The state of optimal physical, mental, and social well-being. illness - Ans:-a disease of the body or mind Primary illness - Ans:-Developes without being caused by another health problem Secondary illness - Ans:-caused by primary illness acute illness - Ans:-Develops suddenly and resolves in a short time chronic illness - Ans:-long term illness terminal illness - Ans:-No cure available; ends in death idiopathic illness - Ans:-no known cause (etiology) congenital illness - Ans:-present at birth Repression - Ans:-unconscious forgetting ©GRACEAMELIA 2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024 Page 2/7 Denial - Ans:-refusing to believe or even perceive painful realities Projection - Ans:-unconscious attribution of our negative characteristics to others reaction formation - Ans:-people behave in a way opposite to what their true but anxiety-provoking feelings would dictate. Regression - Ans:-return to an earlier or less advanced condition Rationalization - Ans:-Creating false but plausible excuses to justify unacceptable behavior. identification - Ans:-modeling behavior after someone else Displacement - Ans:-in which a person redirects an emotional reaction from the rightful recipient onto another person or object Sublimation - Ans:-rechanneling of drives or impulses that are personally or socially unacceptable into activities that are constructing Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - Ans:-physiological, safety, social, esteem, self-actualization Physiological Needs (Maslow) - Ans:-the lowest level of Maslow's hierarchy - needs for food, water, air, sleep, and other survival needs safety and belonging (maslows) - Ans:-basic physical safety and emotional security ©GRACEAMELIA 2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024 Page 3/7 Self-Esteem and Love - Ans:-Self esteem : Independence, motivation, learning, leisure, spiritual beliefs, love: loving, giving and receiving, affection intimacy and sexual expression. self-actualization - Ans:-the process by which people achieve their full potential General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) - Ans:-Long exposure to stress alarm stage of GAS - Ans:-Body is on alert, signs and systems Exhaustion stage of GAS - Ans:-Our body can not take it anymore. Terminal Illness or death Stages of Illness - Ans:-transition, acceptance, convalescence resistance stage of GAS - Ans:-when your body tries to repair itself after the initial shock of stress. Transition stage of illness - Ans:-Vague symptoms Acceptance stage of Illness - Ans:-Acknowledge illness and take measures to become well convalescent stage of illness - Ans:-Recovery back to normal health primary prevention - Ans:-aims to prevent disease BEFORE it occurs secondary prevention - Ans:-Doctor screening to catch deseases early ©GRACEAMELIA 2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024 Page 4/7 tertiary prevention - Ans:-Rehab to become our optimum Signs and symptoms of stress - Ans:-Irritability, difficulty sleeping, anxiety, guilt, indecisiveness, loss of appetite, sexual relations, and interest in work, isolation, alcohol or drug abuse, inability to concenrate chain of infection - Ans:-causative agent, reservoir, portal of exit, mode of transmission, portal of entry, susceptible host Can be broken by hand hygiene, vaccines, ppe, medical & surgical asep