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TEST BANK:
Journey Across The Life Span: Human Development
and Health Promotion, 6th Edition Polan

Chapters 1 - 14

,Test Bank: Journey Across The Life Span: Human Development and Health
Promotion, 6th Edition Polan


Table of Contents:


Chapter 1. Healthy Lifestyles
Chapter 2. Communication
Chapter 3. Culture
Chapter 4. The Family
Chapter 5. Theories of Growth and Development
Chapter 6. Prenatal Period to 1 Year
Chapter 7. Toddlerhood
Chapter 8. Preschool
Chapter 9. School Age
Chapter 10. Puberty and Adolescence
Chapter 11. Early Adulthood
Chapter 12. Middle Adulthood
Chapter 13. Late Adulthood
Chapter 14. Death and Dying

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Journey Across the Life Span, 6th Edition Polan Test Bank

Chapter 1: Healthy Lifestyles
1. In early civilization, the cause of illness was attributed to:

a. Infectious disease
b. Microorganisms
c. Contaminated food and water
d. Natural and supernatural forces

Correct Answer: d
Rationale: In early civilization, illness was attributed to natural and supernatural forces.

Nursing Process: Assessment
Client Needs: Physiological Integrity


2. The first understanding of disease processes occurred in (the):

a. Earlycivilization
b. 21st century
c. 19th century
d. Middle Ages

Correct Answer: c
Rationale: In the 19th century, the development of bacteriology helped in the understanding of
disease processes.

Nursing Process: Assessment


3. Despite all of the improvements and advancements in health care, several infectious
diseases have recently resurfaced, including:

a. Strep throat
b. Tuberculosis
c. Polio
d. Mononucleosis

Correct Answer: b
Rationale: Tuberculosis is one of several diseases that have recently resurfaced.

Nursing Process: Planning
Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity

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4. Healthy People 2020 identifies two major goals—eliminating health disparities and:

a. Increasing peace and prosperity
b. Eliminating all diseases
c. Increasing the quality and years of healthy living
d. Limiting population growth

Correct Answer: c
Rationale: Increasing the quality and years of healthy living is one major goal set by Healthy
People 2020.

Nursing Process: Planning
Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity


5. An external force that can affect one’s health is (the):

a. Mind
b. Culture
c. Heredity
d. Hormones

Correct Answer: b
Rationale: Culture is an external force that can have many influences on an individual,
including effects on health.

Nursing Process: Planning
Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity


6. Health promotion is:

a. Goal oriented
b. Natural
c. Unplanned
d. Special

Correct Answer: a
Rationale: Health promotion sets goals leading toward optimal wellness.

Nursing Process: Planning
Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity

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7. Mrs. Jackson brings her 6-month-old infant to the clinic for immunization. This action
demonstrates which of the following levels of disease prevention?

a. Primary
b. Secondary
c. Tertiary
d. Rehabilitative

Correct Answer: a
Rationale: Primary prevention is aimed at disease prevention.

Nursing Process: Implementation
Client Needs: Health Promotion and Maintenance


8. A future national goal for health care is the:

a. Reduction of services
b. Decrease in managed care
c. Increase in Medicaid contribution
d. Elimination of disparities in health care

Correct Answer: d
Rationale: The national goal for the next decade is health care for all.

Nursing Process: Planning
Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity


9. Inadequate nutrition contributes to diseases such as:

a. Arthritis
b. Lupus
c. Cancer
d. Hearing loss

Correct Answer: c
Rationale: Cancer has been linked to poor nutritional practices.

Nursing Process: Planning
Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity


10. In health promotion, the most important nursing role is:

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a. Teaching safe health practices
b. Assessing the individual’s health needs
c. Reducing potential health risk factors
d. Changing established lifestyle

Correct Answer: a
Rationale: An important goal of health promotion is helping individuals learn to make safe
health choices.

Nursing Process: Implementation
Client Needs: Health Promotion and Maintenance


11. A healthy person generally:

a. Lacks stability
b. Lacks energy
c. Is in denial
d. Is in harmony

Correct Answer: d
Rationale: Being in harmony, or homeostasis, means that the body can balance healthy and
unhealthy forces.

Nursing Process: Planning
Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity


12. In a health model, the nurse, as a collaborator, is responsible for:

a. Teaching patients about their disease process
b. Sharing and exchanging information with other health professionals
c. Demonstrating desired health behavior
d. Performing daily care needs

Correct Answer: b
Rationale: The nurse acts as a collaborator with other health professionals to promote positive
patient outcomes.

Nursing Process: Implementation
Client Needs: Health Promotion and Maintenance

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13. Jennifer Joseph, a 60-year-old client, has been instructed by the public health nurse to
begin a program of exercise. You can further explain to Mrs. Joseph that the benefits of
exercise are:

a. An increase in blood supply to muscles and nerves
b. An increase in heart rate and rhythm
c. A decrease in the size of the heart muscle
d. A decrease in blood volume and oxygen demands

Correct Answer: a
Rationale: Exercise helps stimulate increased blood supply, which nourishes muscles and
nerves.

Nursing Process: Implementation
Client Needs: Physiological Integrity


14. Holistic health:

a. Excludes one’s physical well-being
b. Limits consideration of one’s social standing
c. Excludes environmental impact
d. Considers one’s me nNt aUl R
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Correct Answer: d
Rationale: Holistic practices consider the whole person’s well-being.

Nursing Process: Planning
Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity


15. Which of the following is an example of health restoration?

a. Rehabilitation after surgery to replace a knee joint
b. Immunization against the hepatitis B virus
c. Surgical excision of a breast cyst
d. Closure of an abdominal stoma

Correct Answer: a
Rationale: Health restoration implies rehabilitation to one’s optimal functioning.

Nursing Process: Planning
Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity

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16. A major objective of health promotion is:

a. Decreasing one’s stress level
b. Challenging health practices
c. Attaining one’s level of optimal health
d. Providing self-actualization

Correct Answer: c
Rationale: The focus of health promotion is individualized to bring the person to his or her
best potential.

Nursing Process: Planning
Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity


17. The most important goal in health restoration is:

a. Regaining losses
b. Compensating for losses
c. Attaining acceptance
d. Providing sympathy

Correct Answer: b
Rationale: Health restoration assists the person in learning to cope with losses.

Nursing Process: Planning
Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity


18. Which of the following forces has no impact on changing one’s health behavior?

a. Family
b. Social pressures
c. Role models
d. Inherited traits

Correct Answer: d
Rationale: Inherited traits are those transmitted by genes and are out of a person’s control.

Nursing Process: Assessment
Client Needs: Physiological Integrity


19. The stressor most commonly associated with adolescence is:

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a. The search for self-worth
b. The search for identity
c. Separation anxiety
d. Birth of a new sibling

Correct Answer: b
Rationale: Adolescents struggle to find out who they are.

Nursing Process: Planning
Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity


20. Based on the Social Readjustment Rating Scale, the most stressful event for an adult is:

a. Changing careers
b. Changing residence
c. Divorce
d. Childbirth

Correct Answer: c
Rationale: Divorce has been identified as one of life’s major stressors, in that it breaks up the
family unit.

Nursing Process: Evaluation
Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity


21. Virgil Grant, a patient recently diagnosed with AIDS, is having a healthy response to the
stress in his life if he demonstrates which of the following behaviors?

a. Denial
b. Withdrawal
c. Acceptance
d. Aggression

Correct Answer: c
Rationale: The stage known as acceptance indicates that the individual has progressed to the
final stage of the grieving process.

Nursing Process: Evaluation
Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity


22. Gary Byrd, a 24-year-old college student, tells the nurse that he sometimes uses various
illegal drugs. The nurse can characterize Gary as a substance abuser if he:

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