Chapter 7: The Nurse as Health Promoter and Care Provider

Chapter 7: The Nurse as Health Promoter and Care Provider

 

Complete Chapter Questions With Answers

 

Sample Questions Are Posted Below

 

The nurse is involved in an organization whose goal is to help children make the decision not use tobacco. Which type of health organization does this represent?

1. Health protection
2. Health restoration
3. Preventive health services
4. Health promotion

Correct Answer: 4

Rationale: Health promotion includes individual and community activities to promote a healthful lifestyle. Examples of these health-promotion activities include improving nutrition, preventing alcohol and drug misuse, restricting smoking, maintaining fitness, and exercising. Health protection includes actions by government and industry to minimize environmental health threats. Preventative health services include actions that healthcare providers take to prevent health problems. Health restoration is restoring clients to optimal health once disease has occurred.

Cognitive Level: Analyzing

Client Need: Health Promotion and Maintenance

Client Need Sub:

QSEN Competencies: I.A.6. Describe strategies to empower patients or families in all aspects of the health care process.

AACN Essential Competencies: VII.7. Collaborate with other healthcare professionals and patients to provide spiritually and culturally appropriate health promotion, and disease and injury prevention interventions.

NLN Competencies: Context and Environment; Knowledge; Health promotion/disease prevention.

Nursing/Integrated Concepts: Assessment; Nursing Process

Learning Outcome: 1. Differentiate between health prevention or protective care and health promotion.

Page Number: p. 122

 

Question 2

The government has authorized a series of influenza immunization clinics that will be provided free of cost to citizens. Which type of health organization does this represent?

1. Health protection
2. Health restoration
3. Preventive health services
4. Health promotion

Correct Answer: 1

Rationale: Health protection includes actions by government and industry to minimize environmental health threats. Examples of these health protection activities include maintaining occupational safety, controlling radiation and toxic agents, and preventing infectious diseases and accidents. Health restoration is restoring clients to optimal health once disease has occurred. Preventative health services include actions that healthcare providers take to prevent health problems. Health promotion includes individual and community activities to promote a healthful lifestyle.

Cognitive Level: Analyzing

Client Need: Health Promotion and Maintenance

Client Need Sub:

QSEN Competencies: I.A.6. Describe strategies to empower patients or families in all aspects of the health care process.

AACN Essential Competencies: VII.7. Collaborate with other healthcare professionals and patients to provide spiritually and culturally appropriate health promotion, and disease and injury prevention interventions.

NLN Competencies: Context and Environment; Knowledge; Health promotion/disease prevention.

Nursing/Integrated Concepts: Assessment; Nursing Process

Learning Outcome: 1. Differentiate between health prevention or protective care and health promotion.

Page Number: p. 138

 

Question 3

A nurse has accepted a job position in a clinic whose focus is on health care during pregnancy and infancy. Which type of health organization does this represent?

1. Health protection
2. Health restoration
3. Preventive health services
4. Health promotion

Correct Answer: 3

Rationale: Preventive health services include actions that healthcare providers take to prevent health problems. Examples of these health preventive services include control of high blood pressure, control of sexually transmitted diseases, immunization, family planning, and health care during pregnancy and infancy. Health protection includes actions by government and industry to minimize environmental health threats. Health restoration is restoring clients to optimal health once disease has occurred. Health promotion includes individual and community activities to promote a healthful lifestyle.

Cognitive Level: Analyzing

Client Need: Health Promotion and Maintenance

Client Need Sub:

QSEN Competencies: I.A.6. Describe strategies to empower patients or families in all aspects of the health care process.

AACN Essential Competencies: VII.7. Collaborate with other healthcare professionals and patients to provide spiritually and culturally appropriate health promotion, and disease and injury prevention interventions.

NLN Competencies: Context and Environment; Knowledge; Health promotion/disease prevention.

Nursing/Integrated Concepts: Assessment; Nursing Process

Learning Outcome: 1. Differentiate between health prevention or protective care and health promotion.

Page Number: p. 122

 

Question 4

Which level of prevention as defined by Leavell and Clark most closely reflects health promotion?

1. Primary
2. Secondary
3. Tertiary
4. None of the levels is related to health promotion

Correct Answer: 1

Rationale: In the model used by Leavell and Clark, primary prevention precedes any disease symptoms and encourages optimal health and increases the person’s resistance to illness. Secondary prevention presumes the presence of a disease or illness. Tertiary prevention relates to situations in which a disability is already present.

Cognitive Level: Analyzing

Client Need: Health Promotion and Maintenance

Client Need Sub:

QSEN Competencies: I.A.6. Describe strategies to empower patients or families in all aspects of the health care process.

AACN Essential Competencies: VII.7. Collaborate with other healthcare professionals and patients to provide spiritually and culturally appropriate health promotion, and disease and injury prevention interventions.

NLN Competencies: Context and Environment; Knowledge; Health promotion/disease prevention.

Nursing/Integrated Concepts: Assessment; Nursing Process

Learning Outcome: 2. Discuss essential components of health promotion.

Page Number: p. 122

 

Question 5

According to Pender, Murdaugh, and Parsons, what is the definition of health promotion?

1. Behavior designed to avoid illness.
2. Behavior to increase early detection.
3. Behavior to help maintain function within constraints of illness.
4. Behavior motivated by a desire to increase well-being.

Correct Answer: 4

Rationale: Health promotion is considered to be an approach that is motivated by a desire to increase well-being and is not disease oriented. Illness avoidance, early detection of illness, and behavior motivated by a desire to increase well-being are all components of health protection.

Cognitive Level: Understanding

Client Need: Health Promotion and Maintenance

Client Need Sub:

QSEN Competencies: I.A.6. Describe strategies to empower patients or families in all aspects of the health care process.

AACN Essential Competencies: VII.7. Collaborate with other healthcare professionals and patients to provide spiritually and culturally appropriate health promotion, and disease and injury prevention interventions.

NLN Competencies: Context and Environment; Knowledge; Health promotion/disease prevention.

Nursing/Integrated Concepts: Assessment; Nursing Process

Learning Outcome: 2. Discuss essential components of health promotion.

Page Number: p. 122