KU SON Health and Illness Exam 1
correctly answered already passed
Health - correct answer ✔✔a state of complete well-being and not merely the absence of
disease or illness
Wellness - correct answer ✔✔a positive state of health that is multidimensional and continually
changing state
Illness - correct answer ✔✔diminished or impaired functioning in all areas
Health promotion - correct answer ✔✔Activities aimed at improving health and preventing
illness by enabling people to increase control over and improve their health
Illness prevention - correct answer ✔✔Focused on the levels of prevention (primary, secondary,
tertiary
Primary Prevention - correct answer ✔✔"pure prevention", prevention that keeps an illness
from occurring
Secondary Prevention - correct answer ✔✔screening and early detection
Tertiary Prervention - correct answer ✔✔How to manage and treat a disease after it has been
contracted
Risk Factors of Health Disparities - correct answer ✔✔Environment, genetics, lifestyle/behavior,
health beliefs, health status
, Internal variables of health - correct answer ✔✔developmental stage, intellectual background,
perception of functioning, emotional factors, spiritual factors
External variables of health - correct answer ✔✔family practices, socioeconomic factors,
cultural background
Obesity BMI - correct answer ✔✔30 or greater
Overweight BMI - correct answer ✔✔25-30
Obesity Characteristics - correct answer ✔✔caused by meds, excessive calories, endocrine
diseases, etc.
causes problems with fertility, heart, cholesterol, lungs, etc.
Healthy People 2020 Goals - correct answer ✔✔- high quality, longer lives
- health equality
- environments that promote health
- promote quality of life
Clinical Judgement - correct answer ✔✔Interpretation about a patient's needs and/or the
decision to take action, use or modify standard approaches, or improvise new ones as deemed
appropriate by the patient's response
Why is clinical judgement important? - correct answer ✔✔used in 46% of nursing roles, patient
safety, multiple ways of thinking, differentiates professional nurses from technical nurses,
decision making
correctly answered already passed
Health - correct answer ✔✔a state of complete well-being and not merely the absence of
disease or illness
Wellness - correct answer ✔✔a positive state of health that is multidimensional and continually
changing state
Illness - correct answer ✔✔diminished or impaired functioning in all areas
Health promotion - correct answer ✔✔Activities aimed at improving health and preventing
illness by enabling people to increase control over and improve their health
Illness prevention - correct answer ✔✔Focused on the levels of prevention (primary, secondary,
tertiary
Primary Prevention - correct answer ✔✔"pure prevention", prevention that keeps an illness
from occurring
Secondary Prevention - correct answer ✔✔screening and early detection
Tertiary Prervention - correct answer ✔✔How to manage and treat a disease after it has been
contracted
Risk Factors of Health Disparities - correct answer ✔✔Environment, genetics, lifestyle/behavior,
health beliefs, health status
, Internal variables of health - correct answer ✔✔developmental stage, intellectual background,
perception of functioning, emotional factors, spiritual factors
External variables of health - correct answer ✔✔family practices, socioeconomic factors,
cultural background
Obesity BMI - correct answer ✔✔30 or greater
Overweight BMI - correct answer ✔✔25-30
Obesity Characteristics - correct answer ✔✔caused by meds, excessive calories, endocrine
diseases, etc.
causes problems with fertility, heart, cholesterol, lungs, etc.
Healthy People 2020 Goals - correct answer ✔✔- high quality, longer lives
- health equality
- environments that promote health
- promote quality of life
Clinical Judgement - correct answer ✔✔Interpretation about a patient's needs and/or the
decision to take action, use or modify standard approaches, or improvise new ones as deemed
appropriate by the patient's response
Why is clinical judgement important? - correct answer ✔✔used in 46% of nursing roles, patient
safety, multiple ways of thinking, differentiates professional nurses from technical nurses,
decision making
