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Presence or absence of disease; complete physical, mental, social well-being; ability to maintain normal roles; able to adapt;
Health
State of well-being; Basic Aspects are: self-responsibility, an ultimate goal, a dynamic growing process, daily decision making related to health, whole being of an individual
Wellness
Subjective perception of vitality and feeling well; described objectively, experienced, measured; can be plotted on a continuum
Well-being
What Dimension of Wellness is this?: Ability to carry out daily tasks; achieve fitness;practice positive lifestyle habits
Physical Dimension
What Dimension of Wellness is this?: Interact successfully with people, develop and maintain intimacy with significant others, develop respect for others
Social Dimension
What Dimension of Wellness is this?: Ability to manage stress; ability to EXPRESS EMOTIONS appropriately, Ability to recognize, accept, and express feelings
Emotional Dimension
What Dimension of Wellness is this?: Ability to learn; Ability to use information effectively; Striving for continued growth and learning
Intellectual Dimension
What Dimension of Wellness is this?: Belief in some force that serves to unite humans; provide meaning to life; provide purpose to life; includes personal morals, values, and ethics
Spiritual Dimension
What Dimension of Wellness is this?: Ability to achieve balance between work and leisure
Occupational Dimension
What Dimension of Wellness is this?: Ability to promote health measures that improves: standard of living and quality of life
Environmental Dimension
The narrowest interpretation of health; People viewed as physiologic systems with related functions; HEALTH IS state of not being "sick"
Model of Health : Clinical Model
HEALTH IS defined in terms of individual's ability to fulfill societal roles; Sickness is the inability to perform one's work role
Model of Health: Role Performance Model
Sister Callista Roy(1999); views person as adaptive system; HEALTH IS a creative process; disease is a failure in adaptation or maladaption
Model of Health: Adaptation Model
Pender (2006);HEALTH IS a condition of actualization or realization of a person's potential. Actualization is the apex (Maslow); Illness is a condition that prevents self-actualization
Model of Health: Eudemonistic Model
Dunn's High-Level Wellness Grid (1959)
Travis's Illness-Wellness Continuum (2004)
4+ Model of Wellness (2001)
Model of Health: Health-Illness Continua
Leavell and Clark (1965); "ecologic model"; used primarily in predicting illness; Constantly affecting each other; In Balance = Health; Out of Balance = Disease
Model of Health: Agent-Host-Environment
Demonstrates the interaction of the environemtn with the illness-wellness continuum; four quadrants of health and wellness
Model of Health: Health Illness Continua:

Dunn's High-Level Wellness Grid
Movement to the right of the neutral point indicates increasing levels of health and well-being achieved thru: 1) awareness 2) education 3) growth; movement to the left of the neutral point indicates progressively decreasing levels of health
Model of Health: Health- Illness Continuum:

Travis's Illness-Wellness Continuum
Baldwin and Conger (2001); consists of the four domains of inner self (physical, spiritual, emotional, and intellectual) PLUS the elements of the outer systems (environment, culture, safety, etc.)
Model of Health: Health-Illness Continua:

4+ Model of Wellness
Biologic Dimension (genetic makeup, gender, age, developmental level);
Psychologic Dimension ("emotional factors", Mind-Body interactions, self-concept);
Cognitive Dimension ("Intellectual factors", Lifestyle choices, spiritual/religious beliefs)
Internal Variables Influencing Health Status
Environment
Standards of Living
Family and Cultural Beliefs
Social Support Networks
External Variables Influencing Health Status
Measurable concept that can be used to predict which people are most likely to change their behavior; People who believe that they have major influence on their own health status = internals; People who believe their health is largely controlled by outside forces = externals
Health Belief Model: Locus of Control Model
Individual perceptions (perceived susceptibility to disease and perceived seriousness of disease)
Modifying factors(demographic variables; socio-psychologic variables; structural variables; cues to action)
Cues to action(mass media campaigns; advice from others; reminders for healthcare provider; illness of family/friend; articles in magazine/newspaper)
Health Belief Model: Rosenstock and Becker's Model
Highly personal state; person's physical, emotional, intellectual, social, developmental, or spiritual functioning is thought to be diminished; not synonymous with disease; Subjective
Illness
Alteration in body functions resulting in a reduction of capacities or a shortening of the normal life span
Disease
Characterized by severe symptoms of relatively short duration; Symptoms often APPEAR ABRUPTLY, subside quickly; May or may not require intervention by health care professionals; Most people return to normal level of wellness
Acute Illness
Lasts for an extended period; Usually has a slow onset; Often have periods of remissions and exacerbations; Care includes promoting independence, sense of control, and wellness; Learn how to live with physical limitations and discomfort
Chronic Illness
Clients are: not held responsible for their condition; not excused from certain social roles and tasks; obligated to try to get well as quickly as possible; obligated to seek competent help
Parson's Four Aspects of the Sick Role (1979)
1) Symptom Experiences
2) Assumption of the Sick Role
3) Medical Care Contact
4) Dependent Client Role
5) Recovery/Rehabilitation
Suchman's 5 Stages of Illness (1979)
Clients may experience:
Behavioral and Emotional changes
Loss of Autonomy
Self-Concept and Body Image changes
Lifestyle Changes
Impact of Illness on Client
Client Families may experience:
Role changes
Task Reassignments
Increased demands on time
Anxiety about outcomes
Conflict about responsibilities
Financial Problems
Lonelieness
Depending on: which member is ill, seriousness and length of illness, and cultural and social customs family follows
Impact of Illness on Client's Family
involuntary process that occurs when people adapt to or borrow traits from another culture. Member of the nondominant cultural group often forced to learn the new culture to survive; changing one's cultural patterns to those of the host society
Acculturation
Process by which an individual develops a new cultural identity and becomes like the members of the dominant culture. Encompasses behavioral, marital, identification, and civic aspects; Conscious effort
Assimilation
Used to describe a person who crosses two cultures, lifestyles, and sets of values
Bicultural
Concept that describes the provision of nursing care across cultural boundaries and takes into account the context in which the client lives and the situations in which the client's health problems arise
Cultural Care
Application of underlying background knowledge that must be possessed to provide a given client with the best possible health care
Culturally appropriate
Within the delivered care the nurse understands and attends to the total context of the client's situation and uses a complex combination of knowledge, attitudes, and skills
Culturally Competent
Care that demonstrates basic knowledge of and constructive attitudes towards the health traditions observed among the diverse cultural groups found in the setting
Culturally Sensitive
A world view and set of traditions used and transmitted from generation to generation by a particular group, includes related attitudes and institutions; nonphysical traits such as values, beliefs, attitudes, and customs shared by a group of people
Culture
A disorder that occurs in response to transition from one cultural setting to another
Culture Shock
Usually composed of people who have a distinct identity and yet are related to a larger cultural group
Subculture
The differential treatment of individuals or groups
Discrimination
Assuming that all members of a culture or ethnic group are alike
Stereotyping
A negative belief or preference that is generalized about a group and that leads to "prejudgment"
Prejudice
The fact or state of being different
Diversity
Belonging to a specific group of individuals who share a common social and cultural heritage
Ethnic
Classification of people according to shared biologic characteristics and physical features
Race
(Estes and Zitzow) The degree to which one's lifestyle reflects his or her respective tribal culture
Heritage Consistancy
The observance of the beliefs and practices of one's acculturated belief system
Heritage Inconsistency
Holds that the forces of nature must be maintained in balance or harmony; when natural balance is disturbed the illness results; humans are one aspect of nature
Holistic Health Belief
Beliefs and practices relating to illness prevention and healing that derive from cultural traditions rather than from modern medicine's scientific base; more humanistic than biomedical; less expensive; frequently requires ritual; often more comfortable and less frightening
Folk Medicine
A belief system in which people attribute the fate of the world and those in it to the actions of God, the gods, or other supernatural forces for good or evil
Magico-Religious Health Belief
Based on the belief that life and life processes are controlled by physical and biochemical processes that can be manipulated by humans; illness is caused by germs, bacteria, or a breakdown of the human machine; pills, treatments or surgery will cure
Biomedical Health Belief
OR
Scientific Health Belief
One's acculturated belief system; the opposite of traditional
Modern
Observance of the beliefs and practices of one's heritage cultural belief system
Traditional
An individual who mediates spoken communication between people speaking different languages without adding, omitting, or distorting meaning or editorializing
Interpreter
A person who converts written material (such as patient education pamphlets) from one language into another
Translator
Things passed down from previous generations (non tangible)
Heritage
Values
Beliefs
Attitudes
Customs
All shared by a group of people and passed on from generation to generation
Culture
Skin Color
Gender
Age
Appearance
Body Language
Five aspects of First Impressions
Formal area of study and practice focused on comparative human-care differences and similarities of the beliefs, values, and patterned life ways of cultures to provide culturally congruent, meaningful, and beneficial health care to people
Trans-cultural Nursing (Madeleine Leininger, 1950)
Fear or Dislike of people different from one's self
Xenophobia
Belief that one's own culture or way of life is better than that of others
Ethnocentric
“The degree to which one’s lifestyle reflects his or her respective tribal culture”
Overlapping components:
Culture
Ethnicity
Religion
Socialization
Heritage Consistency (Zitzow and Estes 1981)
Predicated on the concept of holistic health and describes what people do from a traditional perspective to maintain, protect, and restore health of mind, body and spirit.
Health Traditions Model (Spector, 2004)
Together with biomedical treatment
Complementary
In place of biomedical treatment
Alternative
CAM
Complementary and Alternative Medicine
"hot" foods or foods that are hot in temperature will be used to treat "cold" illnesses
Nutritional Patterns of Cultural Nursing Care
Avoid meats on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday
Roman Catholics
Prohibits meat, tea, coffee, or alcohol
Some Protestant faiths
Prohibit the ingestion of Pork or Pork Products
Orthodox Judaism and Islam
Observe Kosher customs, eating certain foods only if they have been inspected by a rabbi and prepared according to dietary laws
Orthodox Judaism
Strict Vegetarians
Some Buddhists, Hindus and Sikhs
An assessment and educational tool that indicates a client's risk for disease or injury during the next 10 years by comparing the client's risk with the mortality risk of the corresponding age, sex, and racial group
Health Risk Assessment (HRA)
(NANDA) "describes human responses to levels of wellness in an individual, family, or community that have a readiness for enhancement"; can be applied at all levels of prevention but are particularly useful for healthy clients who require teaching for health promotion, disease prevention, and personal growth; preceded by the modifier “readiness for enhanced"
Wellness Diagnosis
Any activity undertaken for the purpose of achieving a higher level of health and well-being; Not disease oriented; Motivated by personal, positive “approach” to wellness
Health Promotion
Behavior motivated by a desire to actively avoid illness, detect it early, or maintain functioning within the constraints of illness; Illness or injury specific; Motivated by avoidance of illness
Health Protection
Activities directed toward the protection from or avoidance of potential health risks; Immunizations, risk assessment for specific disease, family planning, environmental sanitation, adequate housing- recreation- work conditions; Health Promotion/Protection; Decrease risk or exposure of individual/community to disease
Primary Prevention
Activities designed for early diagnosis and treatment of disease or illness, designed to restore disabled individuals to their optimal level of functioning; SCREENINGS, encouraging medical and dental checkups,assessing G&D of children
Secondary Prevention
Begins after an illness or disability is fixed, stabilized or determined to be irreversible; Rehab,support group, teaching to identify and prevent complications; focuses on restoration
Tertiary prevention
A person typically denies having a problem, views others as having a problem and therefore wants to change the other person's behavior
Pre-contemplation stage
The person acknowledges having a problem, seriously considers changing a specific behavior, actively gathers information, and verbalizes plans to change the behavior in the near future
Contemplation stage
Occurs when the person undertakes cognitive and behavioral activities that prepare the person for change
Preparation stage
Occurs when the person actively implements behavioral and cognitive strategies to interrupt previous behavior patterns and adopt new ones; this stage requires the greatest commitment of time and energy
Action stage
The person integrates newly adopted behavior patterns into his or her lifestyle
Maintenance Stage
The ultimate goal where the individual has complete confidence that the problem is no longer a temptation or threat
Termination Stage
A unique being who is different from every other human being with a different combination of genetics, life experiences, and environmental interactions.
Individual/Individuality
The nurse considers all the principles and areas that apply when taking care of any client of that age and condition
Total Care Context
The nurse becomes acquainted with the client as an individual, using the total care principles that apply to this person at this time
Individualized Care Context
Concerned with the individual as a whole, not as an assembly of parts; Spiritual, emotional and physical health are interrelated; Strive to understand how one area of concern relates to the whole person; Consider the relationship of individuals to the environment and to others
Holism (Cannon 1939)
The relative constancy of the internal process of the body, such as blood oxygen and carbon dioxide levels, blood pressure, body temp, blood glucose, and fluid and electrolyte balance; the tendency of the body to maintain a state of balance or equilibrium while continually changing
Homeostasis (Cannon 1930)
The internal environment of the body is relatively stable and constant.
Main Characteristics:
Self-regulatory (automatic)
Compensatory (counterbalancing abnormalities)
Tend to be regulated by negative feedback systems
Require several feedback mechanisms to correct only one physiologic imbalance
Physiologic Homeostasis
Refers to emotional or psychologic balance or a state of mental well-being. Prerequisites are:
Stable physical environment
Stable psychological envrionment
Social environment that includes adults who are healthy role models
Life experience that provides satisfaction
Psychologic Homeostasis
Maslow(1970)
Kalish (1983)http://www.flashcardexchange.com/mycards/list/1758138
Need Theorists
Realistic, sees life clearly, and is objective
Judges people correctly
Has superior perception, is more decisive
Has clear notion of right and wrong
Is usually accurate in predicting future events
Understands art, music, politics, and philosophy
Possesses humility, listens carefully
Is open to new ideas
Is self-confident and has self-respect
Is highly independent, desires privacy
Can appear remote and detached
Maslow's Characteristics of the Self-Actualized Person
"Increasing quality and years of healthy life" indicates the aging or "graying" of the population
"Eliminate health disparities" reflects the diversity of the population
Two major goals of Healthy People 2010
Kalish's Hierarchy of Needs
Second category = Stimulation Needs
Maslow's Heirarchy of Needs (1970)
Competence or approach oriented model
Motivational source for behaviour changes based on individual's subjective value of the change
Health Promotion Model (HPM)
Individual Characteristics and experiences (prior behaviors; personal factors)
Behavior specific cognitions and affect(Perceived benefits of action; Percieved barriers to action; percieved self-efficacy; activity-related affect; interpersonal factors; situational influences)
Commitment to a plan of action
Immediate competing demands and preferences
Behavioral outcome
Variables of Health Promotion Model
Pre-contemplation (does not intend to take action)
Contemplation (acknowledge has problem; intends to change)
Preparation (plans to take action; has taken steps)
Action (makes observable modifications in lifestyle)
Maintenance (strives to prevent relapse; integrates new behavior into lifestyle)
Termination (copes without fear of relapse)
Stages of Health Behavior Change
Model healthy lifestyle
Facilitate client involvement
Teach self-care strategies
Assist clients to increase levels of health
Educate clients to be effective health care consumers
Assist clients to develop and choose health-promoting options
Guide development of effective problem-solving and decision-making
Reinforce clients’ personal and family health-promoting behaviors
Advocate in the community for changes that promote a healthy environment
Nurse's Role in Health Promotion
Basic Unit of society; those individuals who are considered bythe others to represent their significant persons.
Family
Basic role is to protect and socialize its members
Protecting physical health
Providing an environment conducive to physical growth and health
Influencing the cognitive and psychosocial growth of its members
Influencing health care practices and coping mechanisms based on family values and beliefs
Developing a sense of family purpose & affiliation
Adding and socializing new members
Providing & distributing care and services to its members
Roles and Functions of the Family
Nuclear
Extended family
Traditional
Two-career
Single parent
Adolescent
Foster
Blended
Intra-generational
Cohabiting
Gay and lesbian
Single adults living alone
Immediate
Types of Families
Parents and their offspring
Nuclear family
Relatives of nuclear family (aunts, uncles, grandparents)
Extended Family
Both parents reside in the home with their children; Mother assumes nurturing role; Father assumes provider role
Traditional Family
Both partners are employed; may or may not have children
Two-Career
Death of a spouse; separation; divorce; birth of a child to an unmarried woman; adoption of a child by a single man or woman
Single-Parent Family
Parents often developmentally, physically, emotionally, and financially ill prepared to undertake the responsibility of parenthood. Rates highest among black teens, Hispanic and then white.
Adolescent Family
Children who can no longer live with their birth parents and placed within another temporarily
Foster Family
Existing family units who join together to form new families
Blended Family
OR Step Family or Reconstituted Family
More than two generations living together
Intra-generational Family
Consist of unrelated individuals or families who live under one roof
Cohabiting Family
Based on the same goals of caring and commitment seen in heterosexual relationships; include step families and single-parent families
Gay and Lesbian Family
Include young self-supporting adults who have recently left the nuclear family as well as older adults on their own
Single Adults Living Alone
Children no longer at home
Immediate Family
Addresses membership and relationships (Structural)
Examines effects of relationships on family and other systems(Functional)
Structural-Functional Theory
Family Unit is an Open System; Continually interacting with and influenced by other systems; Boundaries regulate input/output
Systems Theory

Common System Hierarchy(image)
Family Structure (Size/Type/Age)
Family Roles and Functions(Who works/household roles)
Physical Health Status(of each member)
Interaction Patterns (ways of expressing emotions)
Family Values(cultural/religious orientation)
Coping Resources(Financial status, methods of coping)
Family Health Assessment Areas
Maturity
Heredity
Gender or Race
Sociologic
Lifestyle
Family Heath Risk Factors
Nature of the illness (mild to severe)
Duration of the illness (short to long)
Residual effects (none to permanent disability)
Meaning and significance to family
Financial impact of the illness
Effect of illness on future family functioning (alteration of family members’ roles and tasks)
Factors Determining Impact of Illness on the Family