Nu 136 Exam 2025 With 100% Correct
Answers
Primary illness - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Develops without being caused by another health
problem
Secondary illness - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Results from or is caused by a primary illness
Stages of Illness - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Transition, Acceptance, Convalescence
Transition Stage - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔May deny feeling ill, but recognize symptoms of illness
are present
Acceptance Stage - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Acknowledge illness and take measures to become
well
Convalescence Stage - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Recovering after the illness and regaining health
Adaptation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔The adjustment or changes in behavior, physiology, and
structure
ie: Exercise and good nutrition when you develop diabetes
Maladaptation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Lack of adjustment
ie: "I know I have diabetes now so I'll just take an insulin pump instead of trying to exercise and
eat right"
,Health Behavior - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Any action taken that promotes good health, prevents
disease, or detects disease in early, asymptomatic stages
ie: watching nutrition, exercise, obtaining immunizations, having regular check ups
Illness Behavior - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Ways in which people monitor their bodies, define and
interpret their symptoms, take remedial actions, and use the health care system.
ie: seeing the doctor and taking prescribed meds after sickness has occured
Holistic Approach - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Considers biologic, psychological, sociologic, spiritual
needs
Five areas of need (Maslow) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Physiologic
-Safety and Security
-Love and Belonging
-Self-esteem
-Self-actualization
Examples of stress-related diseases/disorders - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Headaches, gastritis,
asthma, lumbar pain, ulcerative colitis, IBS, allergies, HTN, cancer, sexual dysfunction, Crohns,
General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Selye's concept of the body's
adaptive response to stress in three phases—alarm, resistance, exhaustion.
Alarm Stage - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The first stage of the general adaptation syndrome, in
which the person experiences a burst of energy that aids in dealing with the stressful situation.
-Hormonal release mobilizes body's defense mechanisms
-Temp increase, malaise, appetite loss
, Resistance Stage - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The second stage of the general adaptation
syndrome, when there are intense physiological efforts to either resist or adapt to the stressor.
-If prolonged, responce becomes maladaptive and a pathologic condition can occur -> "stress
related disorder"
Exhaustion Stage - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The third stage of the GAS, characterized by
weakened resistance and possible deterioration.
-Critical Illness or death
Miller-Keane dictionary defines health as: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔A relative state in which one
is able to function well physically, mentally, socially, and spiritually in order to express the full
range of one's unique potentialities within the environment in which one is living
Acute illness - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Develops suddenly and resolves in a short time
ie: Flu, Appendicitis
Chronic Illness - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Develops slowly
-Can be controlled but not cured
-Long lasting
ie: Diabete, HTN
Terminal Illness - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Illness for which there is no cure and ends in death
ie: Cancers
4 basic physiologic needs - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Food
Water
Air
Rest
Answers
Primary illness - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Develops without being caused by another health
problem
Secondary illness - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Results from or is caused by a primary illness
Stages of Illness - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Transition, Acceptance, Convalescence
Transition Stage - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔May deny feeling ill, but recognize symptoms of illness
are present
Acceptance Stage - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Acknowledge illness and take measures to become
well
Convalescence Stage - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Recovering after the illness and regaining health
Adaptation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔The adjustment or changes in behavior, physiology, and
structure
ie: Exercise and good nutrition when you develop diabetes
Maladaptation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Lack of adjustment
ie: "I know I have diabetes now so I'll just take an insulin pump instead of trying to exercise and
eat right"
,Health Behavior - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Any action taken that promotes good health, prevents
disease, or detects disease in early, asymptomatic stages
ie: watching nutrition, exercise, obtaining immunizations, having regular check ups
Illness Behavior - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Ways in which people monitor their bodies, define and
interpret their symptoms, take remedial actions, and use the health care system.
ie: seeing the doctor and taking prescribed meds after sickness has occured
Holistic Approach - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Considers biologic, psychological, sociologic, spiritual
needs
Five areas of need (Maslow) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Physiologic
-Safety and Security
-Love and Belonging
-Self-esteem
-Self-actualization
Examples of stress-related diseases/disorders - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Headaches, gastritis,
asthma, lumbar pain, ulcerative colitis, IBS, allergies, HTN, cancer, sexual dysfunction, Crohns,
General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Selye's concept of the body's
adaptive response to stress in three phases—alarm, resistance, exhaustion.
Alarm Stage - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The first stage of the general adaptation syndrome, in
which the person experiences a burst of energy that aids in dealing with the stressful situation.
-Hormonal release mobilizes body's defense mechanisms
-Temp increase, malaise, appetite loss
, Resistance Stage - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The second stage of the general adaptation
syndrome, when there are intense physiological efforts to either resist or adapt to the stressor.
-If prolonged, responce becomes maladaptive and a pathologic condition can occur -> "stress
related disorder"
Exhaustion Stage - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The third stage of the GAS, characterized by
weakened resistance and possible deterioration.
-Critical Illness or death
Miller-Keane dictionary defines health as: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔A relative state in which one
is able to function well physically, mentally, socially, and spiritually in order to express the full
range of one's unique potentialities within the environment in which one is living
Acute illness - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Develops suddenly and resolves in a short time
ie: Flu, Appendicitis
Chronic Illness - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Develops slowly
-Can be controlled but not cured
-Long lasting
ie: Diabete, HTN
Terminal Illness - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Illness for which there is no cure and ends in death
ie: Cancers
4 basic physiologic needs - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Food
Water
Air
Rest
