Exam 15: Health and Health Promotion

A nurse has worked to teach patients disease prevention strategies and is frustrated by the low level of compliance.This nurse would most likely conclude that:

A nurse is planning a community health assessment event using a tool called a health risk appraisal (HRA).For best results, which other activities should the nurse plan to include in this event? (Select all that apply.)

A nurse tailors smoking cessation and smoking prevention activities toward teenagers because the nurse knows:

A nurse is frustrated because a patient does not make any needed health changes despite ongoing and comprehensive education on the health-related topic.The best action by the nurse would be to:

A patient needs to make a health-related behavior change, and the nurse using the health beliefs model is working with the perceived severity factor.Which action by the nurse is most appropriate?

The idea that health is the absence of disease is a predominant feature of the __________ model of health.

The nurse who is interested in the eudaemonistic model of health would likely assess patients regarding their position related to:

A faculty member explains to a student that when a person has self-care agency, the person:

A nurse using the health promotion model assesses for the best predictors of behaviors that promote health, including: (Select all that apply.)

A nurse is counseling a patient on disease prevention for a condition seen often in the patient's family history.Which instruction would the nurse be most likely to include in the patient's teaching?

Before providing written information or behavioral contracts to a patient, a nurse should ascertain that the patient:

A nurse assesses a patient for frequently occurring barriers to implementing behavior changes according to the health belief model.Which question by the nurse will yield the most useful information?

A nurse is beginning discharge teaching when the patient states, "I just don't know if I can follow this diet at home.What difference will it make?" In further refining the discharge teaching plan, the nurse should:

A patient needs to lose weight.The nurse has assessed the patient to be in the contemplation stage of Prochaska's transtheoretical model of change.Which intervention by the nurse would be most appropriate?

A nurse is explaining a behavioral contract with the patient.Which statement by the nurse is most accurate? "A behavioral contract:

A patient who smokes has decided to cut down on the number of cigarettes smoked each day and not to go outside with other smokers during work breaks.The nurse can conclude, according to Prochaska's transtheoretical model of change, that this patient is in the stage of:

The nursing policy analyst explains to a class of nursing students that the consumer wellness movement helped create:

The faculty member explains to students that the Healthy People documents: (Select all that apply.)

A nurse explains to a nursing student that an advantage of a broad view of health is:

The word holism was first used in print by: