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NUR 228 Exam 4 Questions With Correct
And Revised Answers
1. maintenance and promotion of health and illness prevention
2. restoration of health
3. coping with impaired functions - answer✔✔comprehensive patient education includes what
three things?
teaching - answer✔✔an interactive process that promotes learning; consists of a conscious,
deliberate set of actions that help individuals gain new knowledge, change attitudes, adopt new
behaviors, or perform new skills
learning - answer✔✔the purposeful acquisition of new knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, and
skills
cognitive learning - answer✔✔all intellectual behaviors and requires thinking; includes
knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, evaluation
affective learning - answer✔✔deals with expression of feelings and acceptance of attitudes,
opinions, or values; includes receiving, responding, valuing, organizing, characterizing
psychomotor learning - answer✔✔involves acquiring skills that require the integration of mental
and muscular activity such as the ability to walk or use an eating utensil; includes perception, set,
guided response, mechanism, complex overt response, origination
motivation - answer✔✔a force that acts on or within a person to cause the person to behave in a
particular way
self-efficacy - answer✔✔a concept included in social learning theory that refers to a person's
perceived ability to successfully complete a task
health literacy - answer✔✔the cognitive and social skills that determine the motivation and
ability of individuals to gain access to, understand, and use information in ways that promote and
maintain good health; includes the patient's reading and mathematics skills, comprehension,
ability to make health-related decisions, and successful functioning as a consumer of health care
functional illiteracy - answer✔✔the inability to read above a fifth grade level
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reinforcement - answer✔✔requires using a stimulus that increases the probability for a response
ex. feedback
return demonstration - answer✔✔learners have the chance to practice the skill
analogies - answer✔✔supplement verbal instruction with familiar images that make complex
information more real and understandable ex. arterial blood pressure is like a flow of water
through a hose
spirituality - answer✔✔awareness of one's inner self and a sense of connection to a higher being,
nature, or some purpose greater than oneself
self-transcendence - answer✔✔a sense of authentically connecting to one's inner self
transcendence - answer✔✔the belief that a force outside of and greater than the person exists
beyond the material world ex. holding a baby or looking at a sunset
connectedness - answer✔✔intrapersonally (oneself), interpersonally (others), trasnpersonally
(unseen, God, higher power)
atheist - answer✔✔do not belive in the existence of God
agnostic - answer✔✔believe that there is no known ultimate reality
spiritual well-being - answer✔✔two dimensions; vertical dimensions supports the transcendent
relationship between a person and God; the horizontal dimension describes positive relationships
and connections that people have with others
faith - answer✔✔allows people to have firm beliefs despite lack of physical evidence
religion - answer✔✔associated with the "state of doing" or a specific system of practices
associated with a particular denomination, sect, or form of worship; organized beliefs and
worship that a person practices to outwardly express spirituality
hope - answer✔✔energizing source that has an orientation to future goals and outcomes;
provides comfort while people endure life-threatening situations, hardships, and other personal
challenges
spiritual distress - answer✔✔the impaired ability to experience and integrate meaning and
purpose in life through connectedness with self, others, art, music, literature, nature and/or power
greater than oneself; causes a person to feel doubt, loss of faith, and a sense of being alone
necessary loss - answer✔✔part of life; death of a loved one, divorce
maturational loss - answer✔✔form of necessary loss and includes all normally expected life
changes across the life span ex. mother feels loss when her child goes to school
