Nurse 299 Exam 1 Questions With
Correct Detailed Answers.
Values and beliefs pattern - ANSWER- Values, beliefs or goals that guide choices or
decisions
Smith (1983) describes four distinct models of health in her classic work: - ANSWER-
Clinical model
Role performance
Adaptive Model
Eudaemonistic Model
Clinical Model - ANSWER- Health is defined by the absence and illness of disease.
With this model, people may wait to seek healthcare until they are sick. They often don't
seek preventative healthcare.
Role performance Model - ANSWER- Health is defined in terms of individuals' ability to
perform social roles. In this model, you are sick when you can't function in your role (i.e.,
need to miss school or work).
Adaptive Model - ANSWER- People's ability to adjust positively to social, mental, and
physiological change is the measure of their health. In this model a person gets sick
when he fails to adapt to change.
Eudaimonistic Model - ANSWER- embodies the interaction and interrelationships
among physical, social, psychological, and spiritual aspects of life and the environment
in goal attainment and creating meaning in life. Those who believe in this model often
look for alternative providers of care. (e.g., a person has a primary care provider and
someone he sees for acupuncture.)
Wellness - ANSWER- A positive state in which incremental increases in health can be
made beyond the midpoint. These increases involve improved physical and mental
health states.
Health - ANSWER- A state of physical, mental, spiritual, and social functioning that
realizes a person's potential and is experienced within a development context.
Illness - ANSWER- Composed of the subjective experience of the individual and the
physical manifestation of disease. People are in an imbalanced, unsustainable
relationship with their environment and are failing in their ability to survive and create a
higher quality of life.
