NUR 1600 Test 2 Ch.3

NUR 1600 Test 2 Ch.3
1. Patient education
Answer
anything that provides patients with information that allows them to make informed decisions
about their care, health, and wellbeing and that helps them to gain knowledge and skills to
participate in their care
2. health promotion
Answer
the process if enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health
3. health
Answer
a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease
or infirmity
4. wellness
Answer
a positive state of health of an individual, family, or community
5. disease
Answer
structural or functional disturbance that results when a person's adap- tive mechanisms to
counteract stimuli and stresses fail
6. Illness
Answer
physical manifestations and the subjective experience of the individual
7. sleep
Answer
the natural periodic suspension of consciousness during which the powers of the body are
restored