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NURSING 232 MIDTERM QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS | LATEST
UPDATE
acute illness
✓ -:- A sudden illness from which a person is expected to recover
chronic illness
✓ -:- irreversible illness that causes permanent physical impairment and
requires long-term health care
Phases of Chronic Illness
✓ -:- pretrajectory
trajectory
stable
unstable
acute
crisis
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comeback
downward
dying
prejectory phase of illness
✓ -:- genectic factors and lifestyle can put the patient at risk for
developing a disease
trajectory of illness
✓ -:- pearance of noticeable symptoms; includes period of diagnostic
workup and announcement of diagnosis; may be accompanied by
biographic limbo as person begins to discover and cope with implications
of diagnosis•
stable phase of illness
✓ -:- ilnesses course and symptoms are under control; biography and
everyday life activities are being managed within limitations of illness;
illness management centred in the home•
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unstable phase of illness
✓ -:- iod of inability to keep symptoms under control or reactivation of
illness; biographic disruption and difficulty in carrying out everyday life
activities; adjustments being made in regimen, with care usually taking
place at home
acute phase of illness
✓ -:- svere and unrelieved symptoms or the development of illness
complications necessitating hospitalization or bed rest to bring illness
course under control; biography and everyday life activities temporarily
placed on hold or drastically cut back
Crisis phase of illness
✓ -:- critical or life-threatening situation requiring emergency treatment
or care; biography and everyday life activities suspended until the crisis
passes
comeback phase of illness
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NURSING 232 MIDTERM QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS | LATEST
UPDATE
acute illness
✓ -:- A sudden illness from which a person is expected to recover
chronic illness
✓ -:- irreversible illness that causes permanent physical impairment and
requires long-term health care
Phases of Chronic Illness
✓ -:- pretrajectory
trajectory
stable
unstable
acute
crisis
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comeback
downward
dying
prejectory phase of illness
✓ -:- genectic factors and lifestyle can put the patient at risk for
developing a disease
trajectory of illness
✓ -:- pearance of noticeable symptoms; includes period of diagnostic
workup and announcement of diagnosis; may be accompanied by
biographic limbo as person begins to discover and cope with implications
of diagnosis•
stable phase of illness
✓ -:- ilnesses course and symptoms are under control; biography and
everyday life activities are being managed within limitations of illness;
illness management centred in the home•
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unstable phase of illness
✓ -:- iod of inability to keep symptoms under control or reactivation of
illness; biographic disruption and difficulty in carrying out everyday life
activities; adjustments being made in regimen, with care usually taking
place at home
acute phase of illness
✓ -:- svere and unrelieved symptoms or the development of illness
complications necessitating hospitalization or bed rest to bring illness
course under control; biography and everyday life activities temporarily
placed on hold or drastically cut back
Crisis phase of illness
✓ -:- critical or life-threatening situation requiring emergency treatment
or care; biography and everyday life activities suspended until the crisis
passes
comeback phase of illness
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