NUR 1600 Wellness Learning Guide
- Acute Illness
Answer Sudden onset of functional decline
- Illness
Answer the physical manifestations- 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
Answer refers to a positive state of health of an individual, family, or community. It is multidimensional, encompassing several dimensions, including physical, men- tal, spiritual, social, occupational, environmental, intellectual, and financial. Wellness is seen as a continually changing state ranging from high-level to low-level wellness.
- Disease
Answer is a functional or structural disturbance that results when a person's adaptive mechanisms to counteract stimuli and stresses fail.
- Health-Illness Continuum
Answer is a measurements of a person's perceived level of wellness. It
illustrates how health and illness/disease are on opposite ends of the continuum. Between the ends of the continuum, there are a wide range of health and illness and as humans we move back and forth within this continuum every day
- Health Promotion
Answer As the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health. 1 / 3
- Describe self, patient and others/community relationship to health, illness, wellness and
disease.
Answer The framework for Nur 1600 is conceived from the notion we all have a role in health, wellness and promotion; therefore, nurses are trained to promote health and wellness. The nurse should consider how a given condition im- pacts him/her personally and professionally, how the condition impacts the patient, and how the condition impacts the community in which the nurse and patient live in.
- Describe the nurses role in health promotion.
Answer Health promotion is included as part of the revised definition of nursing from the American Nurses Association (ANA), and is specifically identified as a standard of professional nursing practice specifically identified by the ANA (Standard 5, Implementation; Health Teaching and Health Promotion).
- ANA Standard 5B. Health Teaching and Health Promotion -
Answer The registered nurse employs strategies to promote health and a safe environment.
- Describe the nurses' role in public health.
Answer Community/public health nurses work directly with at-risk populations carrying out disease prevention, health protec- tion, and health promotion efforts at all levels of prevention (primary, secondary, and tertiary) (Giddens, p. 496)
Public health initiatives from voluntary healthcare entities, such as the American Heart Association or the American Diabetes Association, serve as a source of important information
for individuals with chronic disease, and nurses can leverage these sources when they are working with patients and their caregivers. (Giddens, p. 55)
- The provision of health care is geared toward three general goals
Answer to promote health, to prevent disease, and to treat illness when it arises.
These do not represent three separate and competing goals; rather, these goals characterize the health and illness continuum and apply to all people across the life span. 2 / 3
- Characteristics of Disease
Answer is a response to physiologic causes explained by pathophysiology and manifested by symptoms and signs.
- Characteristics of Illness
Answer is seen as the physical manifestations and the subjective experience of the individual.
- Differentiate illness from disease
Answer Disease is a response to physiologic caus- es explained by pathophysiology and manifested by symptoms and signs.
Illness is seen as the physical manifestations and the subjective experience of the individual.
- Acute Illness
Answer Sudden onset of functional decline is often indicative of acute illness or worsening of a chronic disease. Acute illness also resolve in short time.
- Chronic illnesses are characterized by
Answer • complex causes
• many risk factors • long latency periods (time between onset of disease and feeling its effects) • a long illness • Functional impairment or disability.
- Identify preventative health activities that promote wellness and healthy lifestyle
behaviors.
Answer • Annual influenza vaccination
• Regular exercise
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