Health and Illness Continuum and Factors Affecting Health

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What is the primary goal of nursing according to the American Nurses Association?

To diagnose and treat human responses to actual and potential health problems (correct)
To supervise functions and services to promote health
To promote health and well-being through collaboration with others
To assist individuals in achieving health through environmental manipulation

What is the key aspect of nursing according to the definition provided by Florence Nightingale?

Assisting individuals with activities towards health
Collaborating with others to promote health
Diagnosing and treating human responses to illness
Utilizing the environment for recovery and reparative processes (correct)

What does the Canadian Nurses Association's definition of nursing add to the American Nurses Association's definition?

The supervision of functions and services in collaboration with others to promote health (correct)
Assisting individuals, sick or well, with activities towards health that they would do unaided
The act of utilizing the environment for recovery and reparative processes
The diagnosis and treatment of human responses to actual and potential health problems

According to Virginia Henderson's definition, what is the unique function of the nurse?

To assist individuals, sick or well, with activities towards health that they would do unaided (A) Signup and view all the answers

Which definition of nursing emphasizes the nurse's role in manipulating the environment to promote health?

Florence Nightingale's definition (B) Signup and view all the answers

Which definition of nursing focuses on the nurse's role in assisting individuals, both sick and well, with activities towards health?

Virginia Henderson's definition (D) Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary focus of Marjorie Gordon's Human Functional Health Patterns?

Determining functional or dysfunctional health patterns (D) Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following is NOT one of the Eleven Functional Health Patterns according to Marjorie Gordon?

Interpersonal Relationship (A) Signup and view all the answers

What is a key advantage to the nurse of using Marjorie Gordon's Human Functional Health Patterns?

Determining functional or dysfunctional health patterns (C) Signup and view all the answers

In nursing, which approach aims to facilitate progress towards achieving personal spiritual goals?

Goal Attainment Theory (A) Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following is a key component of creating and maintaining a therapeutic environment in nursing practice?

Promoting effective verbal and non-verbal communication (A) Signup and view all the answers

What is the purpose of using community resources as an aid in resolving problems arising from illness in nursing?

To promote interventions that address holistic needs (C) Signup and view all the answers

According to Imogene King's Goal Attainment Theory, what are the three interacting systems that a patient has?

Individual, Interpersonal, Social (D) Signup and view all the answers

According to Madeleine Leininger's Transcultural Nursing Theory, what is nursing considered as?

A humanistic and scientific mode of helping through culture-specific processes (D) Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following is NOT one of Myra Levine's Four Conservation Principles of Nursing?

Conservation of Financial Resources (C) Signup and view all the answers

According to Betty Neuman's Health Care Systems Model, what is the primary concern of nursing?

To prevent stress invasion (C) Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following is NOT one of the three nursing systems proposed by Dorothea Orem's Self-Care Deficit Theory?

Supportive-Educative System (C) Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following is an example of a nursing intervention based on Myra Levine's Conservation of Structural Integrity principle?

Turning the patient from side to side every two hours to avoid bed sores (C) Signup and view all the answers