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What is health?
State of physical, mental, spiritual, and social functioning that realizes a person's potential and experienced within a developmental context
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What is wellness?
Subjective, positive state which can be increased in the wellness-illness continuum
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What is disease?
Failure of a person's adaptive mechanism to counteract stimuli and stress adequately, resulting in functional or structural disturbances.
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What is Illness?
A subjective experience of the individual and physcial manifestation of disease.
Can be ill without diagnosable disease
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What is the clinical model of health?
- -Defined by the absences and illness by the conspicaous presence of signs and symptoms of disease.
- -Conventional model in medicine
- -Objective
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What is the Role Performance Model?
- -Defines health in term's of an individual's ability to perform their social roles.
- -Do what you are suppose to do, if you are "ill" you cant perform the role
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What is the adaptive model?
- -People's ability to adjust positively to social, mental, and physiological change is the measure of their health.
- -Illness occurs when a person fails to adapt
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What is the Eudaimonistic Model?
- -Abstract
- -Looks at good stress
- -Well-being indicates optimal health
- - Interaction between physical, social, psychological and spiritual aspects of life
- -Illness is reflected by a lack of involvement in life
- -in this model a person with Cancer can be healthy
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What are the goals of Healthy People 2010/2020?
- 1. Increase quality and years of healthy life
- 2. Eliminate Health disparities
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What does Healthy People look at?
- -Mortality and Morbidity rates
- -Involvement and communication
- -Has about 40 topics and objectives
- -Has leading health indicators
- Examples: physical activity, obesity, tobacco use, substance abuse, responsible sexual behavior, mental health, injury & violence, environmental quality, immunization, and access to health care.
- -Important to keep communities healthy and to spend less money
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What is primary prevention?
- -Preceeds disease or dysfunction
- -Focuses on health promotion
- -Primary prevention interventions are considered health protection
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What are examples are primary prevention?
- 1. A nurse providing sexuality education for middle school students
- 2. Immunizations
- 3. Any type of health education
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What is secondary prevention?
- -Ranges from screening activities and treating early stages of the disease
- -Teaching has to be geared to life with disease
- -Screening is secondary because it's goal is to identify individuals in an early, detectable stage of the disease.
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What is tertiary prevention?
- -When the disease/defect/disablitiy is permanent and irreversible
- -Minimizing the effects of disease and disability
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What is risk?
The likelyhood you will develop something
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How is risk determined?
- Research
- -Adverse Childhood events study- childhood trauma leads to certain diseases
- -Youth risk behavior surveillance- teen risk
- -Framingham Heart study- Smoking is bad
- -Harvard Nurses' Health Study- Nurses' long term use of oral contraceptives.
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What is absolute risk?
- -Whether or not you will get something
- Examples: 1 out of 5 people
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What is relative risk?
-Your personal risk of getting something
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What is a nurse advocate?
- -Act or speak for someone else
- -Help individuals obtain what they are entitled to receieve from the healthcare system
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What is a care manager?
- -Managing care, overseeing care
- -Prevent duplication of services and try to reduce costs
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What is a nurse consultant?
- -Expect in the field
- -provide knowledge about health promotion and disease prevention in speciality areas
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What is a deliverer of services?
- -Care role
- -Delivery of direct services such as healht education, flu shots and health promotion
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What is a nurse educator?
- -Teach about health education
- -The goal is to change behavior
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What is a Nurse Healer?
- -Help individuals integrate and balance the various parts of their lives
- -Holistic Nursing
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What is a Nurse Reasearch?
-Uses EBP, Research to make the best decision for health care
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What is primary care?
-Basic health care that emphasizes general health needs rather than specialized care
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What is a PCP?
- -Primary Care Provider
- -Physician or APN who provides basic and routine health care service usually in an office or clinic
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What is managed care?
A health care plan that integrates the financing and delivery of health care services by using arrangements with selected health care providers to provide services for covered individuals.
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What is an HMO?
- -Health Maintenance Organization
- -A prepaid health plan delivering comprehensive care to members through designated providers, having a fixed monthly payment for health care services and requiring memebers to be in a plan for a specified period of time
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What is an official health care agency?
- -Tax supported
- -Deals with local, state, and federal level
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What is a voluntary Agency?
- -Raise awareness
- -No supported by taxes
- Example: American Heart Association
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Is most of the health care system preventive care?
No, the focus is not preventive care
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What are the different types of health insurance?
- -Private
- -Tax supported
- Medicare- over 65
- Medicaid- 18-65
- SCHIP-Children under 18
- -Universal coverage- government or private, covers whole nation-Germany, Canada
- -uninsured- US has highest proportion of people with no health insurance of all developed countries
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What are current trends in health promotion?
- -Demographics- by 2050 most people in US will not be white
- -There is an increase in ethnic/cultural diversity, this means a change in care given
- -Effects of lifestyle on health- Americans have a poor lifestyle
- -Personal responsibility for health
- -Access to health care
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