1. What is a state of physical well-being, pleasure, and absence of pain or stress?
Answer
Comfort
2. The most common sources of decreased comfort are?
Answer
Pain and emotional stress
3. What is the excretion of waste from the body by the gastrointestinal (GI) tract (as feces) and
by the urinary system?
Answer
Elimination
4. Adults desire voluntary control of both bowel and urinary elimination, a normal condition is
called?
Answer
Continence
5. What is an ability to expel stool or excrete urine completely?
Answer
Retention
,6. What is the lack of bowel or bladder control?
Answer
Incontinence
7. What is a condition called when stool can be watery and without solid form?
Answer
Diarrhea
8. What is a condition called when stool can be hard, dry, and difficult to pass through the
rectum?
Answer
Constipation
9. Intervention to include in preventing constipation...
Answer
Diet high in fiber, and drinking 8 to 12 glasses of water each day
10. The regulation of body fluid, fluid osmolality, & electrolytes by processes such as
filtration, diffusion, & osmosis is?
Answer
Fluid and electrolyte balance
11. Process of oxygen transport to the cells & carbon dioxide transport away from the cells
through ventilation & diffusion?
,Answer
Gas exchange
12. The protection from illness or disease that is maintained by the body's physiologic defense
mechanisms is?
Answer
Immunity
13. The ability of an individual to perform purposeful physical movement of the body is?
Answer
Mobility
14. The process of ingesting and using food and fluids to grow, repair, and maintain optimal
body functions is?
Answer
Nutrition
15. Adequate arterial blood flow through the peripheral tissues & blood that is pumped by the
heart to oxygenate major body?
Answer
Perfusion
16. What is modifiable?
Answer
Can be changed
, 17. True or False
Answer
Non-modifiable cannot be changed & factors include age, gender, and family history?
Answer
True
18. The ability to perceive & interpret sensory input into one or more mean- ingful responses
is?
Answer
Sensory perception
19. True or False
Answer
Sexuality is a complex integration of physiologic, emotional, & social aspects of well-being
Answer
True
20. The intactness of the structure & function of integument & mucous mem- branes is?
Answer
Tissue integrity
21. What can cause serious injury or death to a patient, and should never happen in a hospital?
Answer
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