NURS2730 – TEST QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS A+
GRADED
Value of nursing history
-critical to advancing the profession
-encourages critical thinking
-contributes to the development of professional identity
-informs future generations of nurses
Florence Nightingale
-founder of modern nursing, credited with introducing sanitary science
-responsible for leading many social/political changes in health care in mid-late 1800s
-her vision was to have nursing as respectable work for white, middle-class women
Negative view of health
absence of illness/disease
Positive view of health
-health and illness are viewed as distinct but interrelated concepts
-an individual can have a disease but have healthy characteristics
Health as stability
-maintenance of physiological, functional and social norms
-encompasses views of of health as a state, process, adaptation, and homeostasis
Health as actualization
actualization of human potential
Health as a resource
capacities to fulfill roles, meet demands and engage in the activities of everyday living
Health as unity
-reflecting the whole person as a process
-self-transcendence
WHO's definition of health
a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence
of disease or infirmity
Wellbeing
subjective perception of vitality and feeling well
Illness-Wellness Continuum
-ranges from optimal health to premature death
-movement to the right of the neutral point indicates increasing levels of health and
wellbeing
-movement to the left of the neutral point indicates decreasing levels of health and
wellbeing
Medical approach to healthcare
-emphasizes that medical intervention restores health
-dominated Western thinking for most of the 20th century
Behavioural approach to healthcare
-defines health determinants as lifestyle, environment, human biology, and organization
of healthcare, with lifestyle being the most important
GRADED
Value of nursing history
-critical to advancing the profession
-encourages critical thinking
-contributes to the development of professional identity
-informs future generations of nurses
Florence Nightingale
-founder of modern nursing, credited with introducing sanitary science
-responsible for leading many social/political changes in health care in mid-late 1800s
-her vision was to have nursing as respectable work for white, middle-class women
Negative view of health
absence of illness/disease
Positive view of health
-health and illness are viewed as distinct but interrelated concepts
-an individual can have a disease but have healthy characteristics
Health as stability
-maintenance of physiological, functional and social norms
-encompasses views of of health as a state, process, adaptation, and homeostasis
Health as actualization
actualization of human potential
Health as a resource
capacities to fulfill roles, meet demands and engage in the activities of everyday living
Health as unity
-reflecting the whole person as a process
-self-transcendence
WHO's definition of health
a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence
of disease or infirmity
Wellbeing
subjective perception of vitality and feeling well
Illness-Wellness Continuum
-ranges from optimal health to premature death
-movement to the right of the neutral point indicates increasing levels of health and
wellbeing
-movement to the left of the neutral point indicates decreasing levels of health and
wellbeing
Medical approach to healthcare
-emphasizes that medical intervention restores health
-dominated Western thinking for most of the 20th century
Behavioural approach to healthcare
-defines health determinants as lifestyle, environment, human biology, and organization
of healthcare, with lifestyle being the most important
