Nu 136 Exam 1 Questions With Verified
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Primary illness - answerDevelops without being caused by another health problem
Secondary illness - answerResults from or is caused by a primary illness
Stages of Illness - answerTransition, Acceptance, Convalescence
Transition Stage - answerMay d...
Primary illness - answer✔✔Develops without being caused by another health problem
Secondary illness - answer✔✔Results from or is caused by a primary illness
Stages of Illness - answer✔✔Transition, Acceptance, Convalescence
Transition Stage - answer✔✔May deny feeling ill, but recognize symptoms of illness are present
Acceptance Stage - answer✔✔Acknowledge illness and take measures to become well
Convalescence Stage - answer✔✔Recovering after the illness and regaining health
Adaptation - answer✔✔The adjustment or changes in behavior, physiology, and structure
ie: Exercise and good nutrition when you develop diabetes
Maladaptation - answer✔✔Lack of adjustment
ie: "I know I have diabetes now so I'll just take an insulin pump instead of trying to exercise and
eat right"
Health Behavior - answer✔✔Any action taken that promotes good health, prevents disease, or
detects disease in early, asymptomatic stages
ie: watching nutrition, exercise, obtaining immunizations, having regular check ups
Illness Behavior - answer✔✔Ways in which people monitor their bodies, define and interpret
their symptoms, take remedial actions, and use the health care system.
ie: seeing the doctor and taking prescribed meds after sickness has occured
Examples of stress-related diseases/disorders - answer✔✔Headaches, gastritis, asthma, lumbar
pain, ulcerative colitis, IBS, allergies, HTN, cancer, sexual dysfunction, Crohns,
General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) - answer✔✔Selye's concept of the body's adaptive
response to stress in three phases—alarm, resistance, exhaustion.
Alarm Stage - answer✔✔-The first stage of the general adaptation syndrome, in which the
person experiences a burst of energy that aids in dealing with the stressful situation.
-Hormonal release mobilizes body's defense mechanisms
-Temp increase, malaise, appetite loss
Resistance Stage - answer✔✔-The second stage of the general adaptation syndrome, when
there are intense physiological efforts to either resist or adapt to the stressor.
-If prolonged, responce becomes maladaptive and a pathologic condition can occur -> "stress
related disorder"
Exhaustion Stage - answer✔✔-The third stage of the GAS, characterized by weakened
resistance and possible deterioration.
-Critical Illness or death
Miller-Keane dictionary defines health as: - answer✔✔A relative state in which one is able to
function well physically, mentally, socially, and spiritually in order to express the full range of
one's unique potentialities within the environment in which one is living
Acute illness - answer✔✔Develops suddenly and resolves in a short time
ie: Flu, Appendicitis
Chronic Illness - answer✔✔-Develops slowly
-Can be controlled but not cured
-Long lasting
ie: Diabete, HTN
Terminal Illness - answer✔✔Illness for which there is no cure and ends in death
ie: Cancers
4 basic physiologic needs - answer✔✔Food
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