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Define:
Adaptive model of health

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A person's measure of health is his or her ability to adjust positively to social, mental, and physiological change. Illness occurs when the person fails to adapt or becomes maladaptive to these changes.

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Define:
Applied research

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Research that is done to directly affect clinical practice.

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Define:
Asset Planning

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A planning approach that focuses the family and the providers on the building blocks for their future, given the realities of the present.

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Define:
Clinical model of health

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The absence, and illness by the conspicuous presence, of signs and symptoms of disease. It is the conventional model of the discipline of medicine.

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Define:
Community-based care

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Care that is provided in health care settings in the community.

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Define:
Cultural competence

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The ability to give care to an individual that demonstrates awareness of and sensitivity to the underlying personal and cultural reality of the individual by identifying and using cultural norms, values, and communication and time patterns in collecting and interpreting assessment information.

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Define:
Disease

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The failure of a person's adaptive mechanisms to adequately counteract stimuli and stresses, resulting in functional or structural disturbances.

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Define:
Ecological model of health

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A more recent and comprehensive developmental approach useful for promoting health at individual, family, community, and societal levels

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Define:
Empathy

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The ability to understand another's feelings without losing personal identity and perspective

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Define:
Epidemiology

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The study of health and disease in society.

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Define:
Ethnocentrism

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The assumption that an individual's own perspective is correct and shared by others.

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Define:
Eudaimonistic

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Emphasizes the interactions between physical, social, psychological,

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Define:
model of health

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and spiritual aspects of life and the environment that contribute to goal attainment and create meaning. Illness is reflected by a denervation or languishing, a lack of involvement with life.

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Define:
Evidence-based practice

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The conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individuals.

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Define:
Functional health

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The ability to function cognitively and physically.

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Define:
Health

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A state of physical, mental, and social functioning that realizes the potential of which a person is capable.

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Define:
Health disparities

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Refers to the wide variations in health services and health status among certain population groups. Examples are the growing problems of access to medical care; differences in treatment based on race, gender, and ability to pay; and related issues such as urban versus rural health, insurance coverage, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement for care, and satisfaction with service delivery.

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Define:
Health promotion

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The science and art of helping people change their lifestyle to move toward a state of optimal health. The process of advocating health to enhance the probability that person (individual, family, and community), private (professional and business), and public (federal, state, and local government) support of positive health practices will become a societal norm.

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Define:
Healthy People 2010

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The latest edition of the Healthy People documents, the U.S. federal government's health-promotion initiative, which sets out 28 specific areas for health improvement in 467 objectives.

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Define:
High-level wellness

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A sense of well-being, life satisfaction, and quality of life.

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Define:
Illness

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A social construct in which people are in an imbalanced, unsustainable relationship with their environment and are failing in the ability to survive and to create a higher quality of life.

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Define:
Levels of prevention

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Primary, secondary, and tertiary means to avert the development of disease in the future.

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Define:
Qualitative studies

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Research studies that describe phenomena or define the historical nature, cultural relevance, or philosophical basis of aspects of nursing care.

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Define:
Quality of life

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Characteristics, conditions, and situations of life that compose the whole of a person's living. People strive for a positive quality of life. Illness or disease can diminish one's quality of life.

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Define:
Quantitative studies

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Research studies that describe situations, correlate different variables related to care, and test causal relationships between variables related to nursing care.

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Define:
Role performance model of health

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Defines health in terms of individuals' ability to perform social roles. Illness would be the failure to perform roles at the level of others in society.

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Define:
Well-being

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State of being well. The status of one's condition of living. The definition of health is related to one's state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being.

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Define:
Wellness

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A state involving progression toward a higher level of functioning, an open-ended and ever-expanding future, with its challenge of fuller potential and the integration of the whole being. A positive state in which incremental increases in health can be made beyond the midpoint. These increases involve improved physical and mental health states.

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Define:
Wellness-Illness Continuum

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A paradigm that is a bipolar, interactive portrayal of health and illness in myriad configurations, ranging from high-level wellness to depletion of health (death).

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Define:
Racism

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A devaluing of the beliefs, values, and customs of others