NUR 1600 Test 2 Ch.2
- Health
The state of complete physical, mental, social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
- Illness
The physical manifestation and the subjective experience of the individual. Illness can be present in the absence of disease, and it is possible to have no illness when a disease is present.
- Wellness
A positive state of health of an individual, family, or community. It is multidimensional, encompassing several dimensions, including physical, mental, spiritual, social, occupational, environmental, intellectual, and financial. Wellness is seen as a continually changing state ranging from high-level to low-level wellness.
- Disease
A functional or structural disturbance that results when a person's adaptive mechanisms to counteract stimuli and stresses fail.
- Health-Illness Continuum
A measurement of a person's perceive wellness. It illustrates how health and illness/disease are on opposite continuum. Between the ends of the continuum, there are a wide ran and illness and as humans we move back and forth within this continu
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- Health Promotion
The process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health.
- Oral Health Infants
Don't sleep with bottle, avoid fruit juices until 6 months, first dental visit by 12 months, begin to use soft tooth brush as teeth erupt.
- Oral Health Toddler
Continue dentist appointments, teach tooth brushing, after bedtime brushing
- Oral Health Preschoolers
Continue dentist appointments, supervise teeth brushing, begin flossing
- Oral Health School aged
Continue dentist appointments, decrease supervision, continue to avoid sugary foods
- Oral Health Adolescent
Continue dentist appointments, independent brushing and flossing, avoid sugary food.
- Caries (Decay of Tooth) Symptoms
Toothache, abscess formation, temperature sensitivity, fever, swelling.Nursing Considerations
Antibiotics, counsel about dental hygiene, dressing changes following incision and draining or extraction.
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