NR222 Health and Wellness Review of Knowledge (ROK) Final Exam (Latest): Chamberlain College of
Nursing
Key Concepts Chapters
Models of health Edelman Chapter1
Health Belief Model – this model helps in the understanding of factors influencing
patient’s perception, beliefs, and behavior to plan care that will most effectively assist
individuals in maintaining and restoring health and preventing illness.
o Perception of illness
o Serious of illness
o Likelihood the person will take preventative actions
Which interact with the environment to determine a person’s motivation, attitudes, and
actions to engage in health-promoting behaviors.
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs – used by nurse to understand the interrelationships of basic
human needs. The higher ordered needs can only be met when the ones beneath have been
met satisfactorily: self – actualization, self-esteem needs, love and belonging needs, safety
and security needs (physical and psychological), and physiological needs.
Holistic Model – that view health by considering emotional, spiritual, and cultural well
being, this model of nursing understands the natural healing abilities of the body and accepts
alternative and complementary ideas to maintain wellness and achieve health and healing.
(ex. Patients are involved in healing process)
Transtheoretical Model of Change – the process of intentional behavior change. It is a
widely used model in smoking cessation programs. A person must move from one stage to
the other before lasting change occurs.
Clinical model – the absence and illness by conspicuous presence of signs and symptoms of
disease (not going to the doctor until the individual is very ill)
Eudaimonistic Model – Exuberant well being indicates optimal health
Basic human needs model – attempts to meet the patients basic needs
Adaptive model – Ability to adjust to social, mental and physiological changes in
the measure of the individual’s health
Role performance model – (sick role) individual ability to perform social roles
Health promotion model – directed at increasing a patients level of well-being;
complimentary counterpart to models of health protection
o individual characters/experiences
o behavior specific knowledge and effects
o behavioral outcomes
Medical model of health – indicating the assumption that abnormal; behavior is
the result of physical problems and should be treated medically.
Definition of Health Unit 1
Health is defined differently based on an individual's beliefs about the meaning of wellness.
more than an absence of disease; ability to fulfill roles; adaption and