Exam Questions Chapter.4 Health, Illness, And Holism 7e

Chapter 4. Health, Illness, and Holism

Questions

Multiple Choice

1. The nurse is reviewing strategies to use to help a patient improve the current health status. Which strategy would the nurse suggest to the patient?

1. Stop smoking

2. Avoid injuries

3. Receive immunizations

4. Schedule screening tests

Answer: _____

2. The nurse prepares information for a community health fair. Which would the nurse include that determines an individual’s concept of health?

1. Health and medical history

2. Worldview and in-field practice

3. Cultural background and medical history

4. Worldview and philosophical assumptions

Answer: _____

3. The nurse is studying the high-level wellness health grid. Which would the nurse identify as a weakness of the grid?

1. Illustration of the person or group in context

2. Explanation of the person-environment relationship in health

3. Discussion of movement between quadrants of poor to high-level wellness

4. Categorization health as poor, protected poor, high-level well, and emergent high-level well

Answer: _____

4. A community clinic is adopting a health promotion model to guide the delivery of patient care. Which should be emphasized as the motivation behind health promotion?

1. Delaying the onset of illness

2. Increasing the level of wellness

3. Controlling the cost of healthcare

4. Maximizing treatments for chronic diseases

Answer: _____

5. The nurse is using the health promotion model to assist a patient improve health. According to this model, which component is most important to take into consideration for behavior change to occur?

1. Political beliefs

2. Religious affiliation

3. Past medical history

4. Individual characteristics

Answer: _____

6. The nurse is following the health promotion model to assist a patient with weight loss. Which would the nurse identify as a psychological variable that will influence the success of this strategy?

1. Ethnicity

2. Acculturation

3. Self-motivation

4. Socioeconomic status

Answer: _____

7. A patient plans to attend weekly meetings to help with losing weight. For which potential competing demand would the nurse help the patient plan?

1. Grocery store changing hours of operation

2. Mail being delivered to the wrong addresses

3. Spouse being unable to watch the children because of work

4. Trash collection company establishing new rules for recyclables

Answer: _____

8. The nurse manager is implementing a chronic disease model to guide the care of older patients in an assisted living facility. Which would the manager identify as an assumption of this model?

1. A chronic illness will end in death.

2. Technology can create side effects.

3. The course of a chronic illness cannot be managed.

4. Performance of daily activities has no effect on the illness.

Answer: _____

9. A wellness clinic follows a holistic paradigm when providing patient care. Which would the nurse expect to implement when caring for a patient?

1. Prayer

2. Spiritual healing

3. Biomedical treatments

4. Alternative and complementary therapies

Answer: _____

10. The nurse is applying to a graduate nursing program. Which competency should the nurse possess before attending this program?

1. Conducting culturally competent scholarship that can be used in practice

2. Advocating for social justice, including commitment to the health of vulnerable populations

3. Constructing socially and empirically derived cultural knowledge of patients to guide practice

4. Prioritizing the social and cultural factors that affect health in delivering care in varying contexts

Answer: _____

Multiple Response

11. The nurse is reviewing information about theories of health. Which would the nurse identify as a theory of health? Select all that apply.

1. Health as a right

2. Health as an ideal

3. Health as a commodity

4. Health as human potential

5. Health as a sense of coherence

Answer: _____

12. Which would the nurse identify as a concept of the health belief model? Select all that apply.

1. Compliant behaviors

2. Modifying and enabling factors

3. Intellectual information stimulates beliefs

4. Health providers must be responsible for patient education

5. Readiness to undertake recommended compliance behavior

Answer: _____

13. The nurse is comparing different models of health. Which would the nurse identify as an enabling factor of the health belief model? Select all that apply.

1. Barriers

2. Enabling

3. Attitudes

4. Structural

5. Demographic

Answer: _____

14. The nurse is assessing a patient using the functional health patterns. Which pattern would the nurse include? Select all that apply.

1. Rest

2. Income

3. Elimination

4. Self-concept

5. Stress tolerance

Answer: _____

15. A patient from a non-English-speaking culture seeks medical attention for an acute health problem. Which variable would the nurse consider when providing culturally competent care for this patient? Select all that apply.

1. Past experiences

2. Linguistic issues

3. Familial influences

4. Socioeconomic status

5. Acceptance of practitioners

Answer: _____