Nurs 124 Final questions n correct
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20-35 - correct answer ✔✔ Young adulthood is what age?
Establishment of career
Development of own lifestyle including intimate relationships and beginning own family -
correct answer ✔✔ What happens in young adulthood?
Peak physical development reached
-height, muscle mass, internal/reproductive organs, brain
-At 30 body starts to slow - correct answer ✔✔ Physical changes in YA
Formal Operational - Piaget
Health Literacy is most important - correct answer ✔✔ Cognitive changes in YA
intimacy vs isolation - correct answer ✔✔ What Erikson stage are young adults in?
Erikson's sixth stage of development. Adults see someone with whom to share their lives in an
eduring and self-sacrificing commitment. Without such commitment, they risk profound
aloneness and isolation. - correct answer ✔✔ intimacy versus isolation
infertility, excerise/nutrition, routine health screening, job stress, family stress, pregnancy,
stress/stress handling, can lead to physical, emotional and substance abuse issues
risk to health increases - need to identify risks to health and identify illness - correct answer ✔✔
Health concerns in YA
,Lifestyle, family history, accidental death and injury
Substance abuse, unplanned pregnancy, STIs, environmental/occupational factors - correct
answer ✔✔ Health risks in YA
Loss of control - we need to communicate and collaborate with them to give this sense of
control back - correct answer ✔✔ Young adults may feel a loss of what?
36-65 - correct answer ✔✔ Middle adulthood is what age
Gradual loss of physical strength, grating hair, wrinkling skin, thickening waists, ability to
hear/visual acuity decreases, lowered self esteem, menopause, chronic illness flare up, mental
stressors, decreased muscle mass, decreased GI motility, presbyopia - correct answer ✔✔
Physical changes in middle adulthood
decreased ability of eyes to adjust for close vision - correct answer ✔✔ Presbyopia
Sandwich generation - correct answer ✔✔ What is another name for middle adulthood?
important to assess who "family" is to them
Singlehood, marital changes, family transitions - correct answer ✔✔ Psychosocial changes in
middle adulthood
Generativity vs Stagnation - correct answer ✔✔ Erikson's psychosocial theory for Middle
Adulthood
Generativity: interest in establishing and guiding the next generation and ability to contribute to
society in meaningful ways
, Stagnation: person fails to be productive member of society - correct answer ✔✔ Generativity
vs. Stagnation
Stress reduction → more responsibilities
Anxiety & depression → in response to changes, new health screenings required
(mammograms, prostate exams, colonoscopies, etc)
Positive health habits →increase vitamin D
Obesity → increase in BP & cholesterol, DMII, coronary heart disease, osteoarthritis, obstructive
sleep apnea - correct answer ✔✔ Health concerns of middle adulthood
Assessing health
Implementing screening and prevention programs
Provide health promotion programs
Promote positive health habits
assist with health literacy
refer middle adults to health care professionals
direct acute patient care
Restorative and rehab care - correct answer ✔✔ Role of nurses in young and middle adulthoods
The number of years you live - correct answer ✔✔ Lifespan
the average period that a person may expect to live. - correct answer ✔✔ Life Expectancy
the number of years of healthy life expected, on average, in a given population- a life not
affected by disabling illness/injury - correct answer ✔✔ Health Adjusted Life Expectancy (HALE)
Synonym to HALE - correct answer ✔✔ Health Life Expectancy
answers rated A+
20-35 - correct answer ✔✔ Young adulthood is what age?
Establishment of career
Development of own lifestyle including intimate relationships and beginning own family -
correct answer ✔✔ What happens in young adulthood?
Peak physical development reached
-height, muscle mass, internal/reproductive organs, brain
-At 30 body starts to slow - correct answer ✔✔ Physical changes in YA
Formal Operational - Piaget
Health Literacy is most important - correct answer ✔✔ Cognitive changes in YA
intimacy vs isolation - correct answer ✔✔ What Erikson stage are young adults in?
Erikson's sixth stage of development. Adults see someone with whom to share their lives in an
eduring and self-sacrificing commitment. Without such commitment, they risk profound
aloneness and isolation. - correct answer ✔✔ intimacy versus isolation
infertility, excerise/nutrition, routine health screening, job stress, family stress, pregnancy,
stress/stress handling, can lead to physical, emotional and substance abuse issues
risk to health increases - need to identify risks to health and identify illness - correct answer ✔✔
Health concerns in YA
,Lifestyle, family history, accidental death and injury
Substance abuse, unplanned pregnancy, STIs, environmental/occupational factors - correct
answer ✔✔ Health risks in YA
Loss of control - we need to communicate and collaborate with them to give this sense of
control back - correct answer ✔✔ Young adults may feel a loss of what?
36-65 - correct answer ✔✔ Middle adulthood is what age
Gradual loss of physical strength, grating hair, wrinkling skin, thickening waists, ability to
hear/visual acuity decreases, lowered self esteem, menopause, chronic illness flare up, mental
stressors, decreased muscle mass, decreased GI motility, presbyopia - correct answer ✔✔
Physical changes in middle adulthood
decreased ability of eyes to adjust for close vision - correct answer ✔✔ Presbyopia
Sandwich generation - correct answer ✔✔ What is another name for middle adulthood?
important to assess who "family" is to them
Singlehood, marital changes, family transitions - correct answer ✔✔ Psychosocial changes in
middle adulthood
Generativity vs Stagnation - correct answer ✔✔ Erikson's psychosocial theory for Middle
Adulthood
Generativity: interest in establishing and guiding the next generation and ability to contribute to
society in meaningful ways
, Stagnation: person fails to be productive member of society - correct answer ✔✔ Generativity
vs. Stagnation
Stress reduction → more responsibilities
Anxiety & depression → in response to changes, new health screenings required
(mammograms, prostate exams, colonoscopies, etc)
Positive health habits →increase vitamin D
Obesity → increase in BP & cholesterol, DMII, coronary heart disease, osteoarthritis, obstructive
sleep apnea - correct answer ✔✔ Health concerns of middle adulthood
Assessing health
Implementing screening and prevention programs
Provide health promotion programs
Promote positive health habits
assist with health literacy
refer middle adults to health care professionals
direct acute patient care
Restorative and rehab care - correct answer ✔✔ Role of nurses in young and middle adulthoods
The number of years you live - correct answer ✔✔ Lifespan
the average period that a person may expect to live. - correct answer ✔✔ Life Expectancy
the number of years of healthy life expected, on average, in a given population- a life not
affected by disabling illness/injury - correct answer ✔✔ Health Adjusted Life Expectancy (HALE)
Synonym to HALE - correct answer ✔✔ Health Life Expectancy
