Definition
“a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being.”
What is Health?
This model shows health as a constantly changing state, with high-level wellness at one end and death at the other.
What is the Health-Illness Continuum Model?
An illness with a sudden onset, severe symptoms, and short duration.
What is Acute Illness?
In this first stage, a person notices symptoms and may try self-care.
What is the Symptom Experience Stage?
The act of placing a person in a hospital.
What is Hospitalisation?
a state of diminished functioning in one or more dimensions: physical, emotional, social, or spiritual.
What is Illness?
This model explains why people adopt or avoid health behaviours based on their perceived risk and seriousness of disease.
What is Health Belief Model?
An illness lasting longer than 6 months, often with remissions and exacerbations.
What is Chronic Illness?
In this stage, the patient accepts the sick role and seeks validation from others.
What is the Assumption of the Sick Role?
These are two common reasons for hospitalisation.
What are Acute Conditions and Chronic Conditions?
A disharmony of mind, body, emotion, and spirit resulting in reduced capacity or shortened lifespan.
What is Disease?
The quadrant in Dunn’s grid where a person is in a favourable environment but experiences health issues.
What is Protected Poor Health?
A condition triggered by stress that hastens the development of a disease.
What is a Precipitating Factor?
In this stage, the patient seeks professional care for reassurance and diagnosis.
What is the Medical Care Contact Stage?
The nurse as caregiver, advocate, counsellor, educator, communicator, and collaborator describes this.
What is the Role of the Nurse in Illness?
A subjective perception of vitality and feeling well, which can be measured on a continuum
What is Wellness?
This model shows that health depends on the balance of host, agent, and environmental factors.
What is Host-Agent-Environment Model?
A condition influenced by smoking or obesity that contributes to disease.
What is a Contributory Factor?
In this stage, the patient depends on healthcare providers for help.
What is the Dependent Client Role Stage?
This process begins during admission and prepares the patient for care at home.
What is Discharge Planning?
This type of factor includes spiritual and religious beliefs that shape how people behave in health and illness.
What is Spiritual Dimensions?
The quadrant in Dunn’s grid where a person functions well despite being in an unfavourable environment.
What is Emergent High-Level Wellness?
A family history of hypertension that increases the risk of developing the disease is an example of this.
What is a Predisposing Factor?
This stage is where the patient regains independence and resumes normal life.
What is the Recovery or Rehabilitation Stage?
The foundation of a therapeutic nurse-client relationship.
What is Trust?