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NR 222: Exam 1 Study guide

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• What are the goals of Healthy People 2020? Health Promotion and disease prevention efforts. There are 4 goals of Health People 2020: • Attain longer lives with high quality: free of prevent... able diseases, disability, and premature death • Health equity: improve the health for all groups • Promote good health through social and physical environments for all • Promote quality of life, healthy development, and healthy behaviors • What are primary, secondary and tertiary interventions? Give examples of each A nursing intervention is defined as a single nursing action - treatment, procedure or activity - designed to achieve an outcome to a diagnosis, nursing or medical, for which the nurse is accountable. • Define and give examples of: Acute, Sub acute and Hospice care . Acute care is a branch of secondary health care where a patient receives active but short-term treatment for a severe injury or episode of illness, an urgent medical condition, or during recovery from surgery. In medical terms, care for acute health conditions is the opposite from chronic care, or longer term care. Subacute care serves patients needing complex care or rehabilitation. Subacute care is defined as comprehensive inpatient care designed for someone who has an acute illness, injury or exacerbation of a disease process. Hospice care provides medical services, emotional support, and spiritual resources for people who are in the last stages of a serious illness, such as cancer or heart failure. Hospice care also helps family members manage the practical details and emotional challenges of caring for a dying loved one. • Review factors that institute Lifestyle changes and health promotion To achieve lifestyle change that promote health, a person need to be willing to implement change. The nurse can use the following framework for developing interventions for behavioral change (PAGE 220): • Assess the behavior • Educate about the need for and the benefits of change • Motivate using personalized messages • Assess and increase self-efficacy • Assess and offer resources to decrease barriers to change • Modify behavior • Maintain behavior change • What are the levels of prevention and how are they applied to patient care? Give examples [Show More]

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