Chapter 1
What is an evidence-based 10-year report card describing health-care accomplishments within the United States from the Years 2010-2020?
Healthy People 2030
What are the foundations of laws related to consumer protection?
Standards of practice
What are cultural teachings of practices and values that are handed down for generations and determine how one behaves and responds to daily life and health-care practices?
Beliefs
What is a competency or skill that helps a person cope with the environment or advance personal development?
Developmental task
What are designed to explain the development of specific behaviors and suggest their relationships to other developing social skills?
Behavioral theories
What is the average numbers of years a person born in a given year is expected to live?
Life expectancy
Accreditation
What are deep feelings about what is right or wrong, good or bad?
Values
What was created by Smilkstein as a tool to assess family function?
Family Apgar
What focuses on advancement of the development of thinking?
Cognitive theories
What is the number of deaths that occur before 1 year of age per 1,000 live births?
Infant mortality rate
What is one of the most important rights of patients that a nurse is responsible to sign as a witness that a patient has received information regarding risks, advantages, and alternatives available for planned procedures in a language that can be understood by the patient?
Informed consent
What is recognizing the history of patient's ancestry or culture and how their customs influence the handling of problems, issues or teachings?
Cultural awareness
What is based on the understanding that family functions are interconnected?
Family Systems Theory
What focuses on personality-trait development and psychological challenges at different ages?
Psychodynamic theories
What refers to medical conditions (both physical and mental health), claims experience, receipt of health care, medical history, genetic information, evidence of insurability, and disability?
Health status
What type of insurance program includes when benefits are received after contributions are made through payroll deductions?
Medicare
What is the awareness of, acceptance of, and respect for beliefs, values, traditions, and practice that are different from one's own?
Cultural competence
What is the belief that one's own culture is the standards of behavior and is better than other cultures?
Ethnocentrism
What describes how culture influences behavior?
Sociocultural theories
What are the range of social, economic, and environmental factors that influence health status?
Determinants of health
What is the use of minute portions of naturally occurring chemicals for their healing powers?
Homeopathy
What is the adjustment to a new culture, resulting in differences in practice within the same cultural group?
Acculturation
What is a process by which members of a specific cultural group loose the characteristics of that group and adapt practices of another group?
Cultural assimilation
What describes the influences of human experiences such as love and attachment on behavior and personality development?
Humanist theories