Chapter 5 Health Traditions

Chapter 5   Health Traditions

Complete Chapter Questions With Answers

Sample Questions Are Posted Below

1) Which action do most people take when experiencing a mild illness?

1. Rely on self-treatment or do nothing.
2. Ingest herbs specific to how they are feeling.
3. Consult a local faith HEALER.
4. Immediately seek medical attention.

Answer:  1

Explanation:  1. Most people, upon feeling ill, will rely on self-treatment or do nothing to see how the symptoms develop or disappear.

2. Ingesting herbs specific to the symptoms is not a general practice among all people. Cultures that rely heavily on herbal agents for health use them after consultation regarding symptoms.
3. Faith healers are not part of mainstream health culture, and for those cultures that have faith healers, they are not consulted immediately when someone feels ill.
4. Medical attention is generally not immediately sought when a person feels ill.

Cognitive Level:  Understanding

Patient Need:  Health Promotion and Maintenance

Nursing/Integrated Concepts:  Nursing Process: Planning

Learning Outcome:  LO01 – Describe the interrelated components of the HEALTH Traditions Model.

2) When researching different healing traditions, the nurse learns that many of these traditions are based on which premise?

1. The person recovers from what is afflicting them.
2. The person becomes more ill and then recovers.
3. An outside person must help the person recover.
4. Other interventions aid the healing tradition.

Answer:  1

Explanation:  1. The phenomenon of recovery is the basis for all healing traditions. The person recovers, or expects to recover.

2. Healing traditions are used for recovery, and not with the expectation that the person becomes more ill before becoming better.
3. Use of an outside person to help recovery is not a basis of healing traditions. Those who are healers become so through knowledge and uses of plants, herbs, and other methods that aid recovery.
4. Other interventions as adjuncts to healing traditions are not bases for using a specific healing tradition.

Cognitive Level:  Understanding

Patient Need:  Health Promotion and Maintenance

Nursing/Integrated Concepts:  Nursing Process: Evaluation

Learning Outcome:  LO01 – Describe the interrelated components of the HEALTH Traditions Model.

3) Which statement would the nurse utilize to define HEALTH?

1. The balance of a person within the outside world
2. A continuous struggle between balance and imbalance
3. Recovering from an illness
4. Physical wholeness for activity

Answer:  1

Explanation:  1. HEALTH is the balance of a person and the outside world. Health is a complex, interrelated phenomenon.

2. HEALTH is not a continuous struggle.
3. HEALTH is not recovering from an illness.
4. The physical component is part of HEALTH, but not the whole aspect of HEALTH.

Cognitive Level:  Applying

Patient Need:  Psychosocial Integrity

Nursing/Integrated Concepts:  Nursing Process: Implementation

Learning Outcome:  LO01 – Describe the interrelated components of the HEALTH Traditions Model.

4) What would the nurse identify as contributors to ILLNESS?

1. Imbalance of body, mind, or spirit
2. Imbalance with the family
3. Imbalance with the community
4. Imbalance with the forces of the natural world
5. Imbalance with socioeconomic status

Answer:  1, 2, 3, 4

Explanation:  1. ILLNESS is the imbalance of one or all parts of the person, including body, mind, and spirit.

2. ILLNESS includes an imbalance with the family.
3. ILLNESS includes an imbalance with the community.
4. ILLNESS includes an imbalance with the forces of the natural world.
5. ILLNESS does not include an imbalance with socioeconomic status.

Cognitive Level:  Analyzing

Patient Need:  Psychosocial Integrity

Nursing/Integrated Concepts:  Nursing Process: Assessment

Learning Outcome:  LO01 – Describe the interrelated components of the HEALTH Traditions Model.