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What are the determinants of health? - ✔✔the range of personal, social, economic, and environmental factors that influence health status What is health? - ✔✔a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity
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What are the determinants of health? - ✔✔the range of personal, social, economic, and environmental factors that influence health status
What is health? - ✔✔a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity
What is the ENVIRONMENT of the epidemiological triad? - ✔✔internal/external to a given host or agent and that is influenced by and influences the host and agent
What is the HOST of the epidemiological triad? - ✔✔living species capable of being infected/affected by the agent
What is the AGENT in the epidemiological triad? - ✔✔animate/inanimate factor that must be present OR lacking for disease to develop
What is primary prevention? - ✔✔measures to decrease the incidence of disease
ie/ handwashing, seatbelts
What is secondary prevention? - ✔✔focuses on identifying the disease early
ie/ health screening or family history
What is tertiary prevention? - ✔✔interrupting the course of disease/reducing disability/rehabilitation
What is the chain of infection? - ✔✔infectious agent, reservoir, portal of exit, mode of transmission, portal of entry, susceptible host
What are the 4 subconcepts of population health? - ✔✔1-health promotion
2-epidemiology
3-illness/injury prevention
4-chronic disease management
What is growth? - ✔✔-quantitative
-change in size, weight, sex characteristics etc.
What is development? - ✔✔qualitative (difficult to measure)
What is morbidity? - ✔✔occurrence of disease in a population
What is mortality? - ✔✔the number of deaths in a population
What is chronic disease management? - ✔✔equipping the client to manage their condition by building on their strengths
-bilateral/proximodistal etc.
What are the characteristics of social/emotional domain for growth and development -
✔✔understanding the self, then others, then social interactions
What are the characteristics of cognitive domain for growth and development - ✔✔-executive functioning
-working memory
-self regulation
What are the characteristics of communication domain for growth and development - ✔✔articulation, voice, fluency
What are the characteristics of adaptive domain for growth and development - ✔✔-independence
-learned skills
BADL basic activities of daily living - ✔✔-hygiene
-eating
-toileting
IADL instrumental activities of daily living - ✔✔-preparing meals
-taking meds
-maintaining finances
What are development tasks? - ✔✔skills and competencies mastered at each developmental stage
7 developmental tasks for older adults - ✔✔1-adjusting to the death of a spouse
2-adjusting to retirement/fixed income
3-adjusting to decreased health and phys strength
4-accepting the aging process
5-maintaining satisfactory living arrangements
6-redefining relationships with adult children
7-maintaining QOL
What is ageism? - ✔✔prejudice or discrimination on the basis of a person's age
What is elderspeak? - ✔✔A condescending way of speaking to older adults that resembles baby talk
give 3 examples of cognitive changes - ✔✔-delirium
-dementia
-depression
give 3 examples of psychosocial changes - ✔✔-death
-retirement
-housing and environment
-abuse
What is Ask-Tell-Ask? - ✔✔asking open ended questions to understand where the client has gaps in knowledge and then developing a plan
What is the teach-back strategy? - ✔✔-gets the client to repeat back what they were taught
-allows nurse to clarify if there is nay confusion
What are the 5a's of CDSM? - ✔✔assess (knowledge)
advise (personalized info)
agree (on goals)
assist (with goals)
arrange (follow up)
What is Piaget's theory? - ✔✔cognitive development
via assimilation & accommodation = adaptation (to new health challenges)
What is Freud's theory? - ✔✔psychosexual theory
-5 stages associated with pleasure zones
-when activities associated with pleasure are inhibited due to illness, empathy/nursing intervention is required
What is Kohlberg's theory? - ✔✔moral development
-dependent on cognitive development
What is Erikson's theory? - ✔✔psychosocial theory
-8 stages
-must complete each stage before moving to the next