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NURS 220 WEEK 1 PT 2 CHRONIC ILLNESS questions & answers
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NURS 220 WEEK 1 PT 2 CHRONICILLNESS questions & answers
What is chronic disease? - correct answer ✔✔medical conditions or health problems with associated
symptoms or disabilities (restricted or limited ability to perform ADLs) that require long-term
management over 3-months or longer
-objective data
what is chronic illness? - correct answer ✔✔The individual's perception of living with a chronic disease
or condition
The individual's response to a chronic disease or condition
-subjective data (pt. experience, how they feel, how it affects their life)
What should chronic diseases, conditions, and illnesses be understood as? - correct answer
✔✔disruption of life story of individuals
What is the difference between a nursing diagnosis and a medical diagnosis? - correct answer ✔✔A
medical diagnosis deals with the disease or condition while the nursing diagnosis deals with the human
response to actual or potential health problems and life process.
What kind of reasoning does the perception and response of an individual with a chronic disease or
condition employ? - correct answer ✔✔Narrative reasoning as it is the subjective data of the patient
What does health encompass according to the WHO? - correct answer ✔✔social, physical, mental,
emotional, environmental, spiritual
What is the top chronic condition for Canadians 18 and onward? - correct answer ✔✔Hypertension -
25%
What is the top chronic condition for Canadians 65 and onward? - correct answer ✔✔Hypertension -
65.7%
, Why is it that more people develop Hypertension as they age? - correct answer ✔✔May be due to
factors such as poor diet, age-related changes, poor environment, lack of access to health care etc.
What is the scope of chronic diseases or conditions; key considerations - types of chronic diseases? -
correct answer ✔✔Impact health in EPISODIC (recurrent or fluctuating), CONTINUOUS, or PROGRESSIVE
way
What does it mean when someone has a progressive chronic condition? What % of people with chronic
diseases have this? - correct answer ✔✔Ability to do ADLs get worse overtime regardless of WHETHER
or NOT you have one month or more without feeling limited
- 22.9%
What does it mean when someone has a recurrent chronic condition? What % of people with chronic
diseases have this? - correct answer ✔✔Ability to do ADLs stays the same or gets better and you HAVE a
period of one month or more without feeling limited
- 24.9%
What does it mean when someone has a fluctuating chronic condition? What % of people with chronic
diseases have this? - correct answer ✔✔Ability to do ADLs get better or worse and you NEVER have a
period of one month or more without feeling limited
- 13.3%
What does it mean when someone has a continuous chronic condition? How many people with chronic
diseases have this? - correct answer ✔✔Ability to do ADLs stay the same or gets better and you NEVER
have a period of one month or more without feeling limited
- 39%
- 2 in 5 people at any age
What are the areas of impact of chronic diseases or conditions? - correct answer ✔✔- Symptoms or
impairments
- Difficulties with day to day activities
- challenges to social inclusion
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