NR222 Week One: Fundamental Health Concepts

Vocabulary flashcards covering key health promotion, stress, prevention levels, theoretical models, Maslow’s needs, and self-care concepts from NR222 Week One lecture.

Chamberlain Care Model

Framework emphasizing care for facility, students, partners, patients, community—and self.

Self-Care

Intentional actions to maintain personal physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being.

Physical Self-Care

Activities such as exercise, balanced diet, adequate sleep, hydration, and stress reduction.

Mental Self-Care

Practices like stress management, yoga, guided imagery, meditation, reading, and managing environment.

Emotional Self-Care

Using therapy, socializing, and hobbies to process feelings and build resilience.

Spiritual Self-Care

Faith practices, time in nature, prayer, or other activities that nurture meaning and purpose.

Situational Stress

Stress arising from specific situations such as job loss, work environment, or high patient acuity.

Maturational Stress

Stress linked to life-stage events like divorce, loss of a child, or death of a patient.

Sociocultural Stress

Stressors related to homelessness, abuse, or social and cultural differences.

Compassion Fatigue

State of burnout and secondary traumatic stress from repeated exposure to others’ suffering.

Lateral Violence

Nurse-to-nurse hostility that can arise when compassion fatigue is unmanaged.

Health (WHO)

Complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely absence of disease or infirmity.

Wellness

Dynamic, positive state of health attained through conscious, active processes.

Illness

Person’s subjective experience of symptoms and suffering.

Disease

Underlying biological pathology identified from the provider’s perspective.

Sickness

Social and cultural conception of an unhealthy condition.

Health Behaviors

Actions—such as smoking, diet, exercise, screenings—that directly influence health outcomes.

Internal Health Variables

Personal factors (intellect, emotions, development, spirituality, perception of functioning) shaping health views.

External Health Variables

Influences from family roles, culture, environment, and socioeconomic background that affect health.

Active Health Promotion

Individual takes deliberate actions (e.g., exercising) to improve health.

Passive Health Promotion

Health benefit occurs without active individual effort, e.g., fluoride in public water.

Primordial Prevention

Maintaining healthy weight, BP, lipids, glucose; healthy eating; exercise; no smoking—before risk appears.

Primary Prevention

Reducing risk factors (e.g., medications for BP/lipids, smoking cessation) to avoid clinical disease.

Secondary Prevention

Early detection and treatment to minimize severity of clinical events (diagnose clinical disease).

Tertiary Prevention

Rehabilitation, surgery, or devices aimed at minimizing impact of chronic disease.

Health Belief Model (Pender)

Explains health actions based on individual beliefs about susceptibility, severity, benefits, and barriers.

Health Promotion Model

Focuses on individual motivation to engage in behaviors that yield positive health outcomes.

Holistic Health Model

Sees person as mind-body-spirit whole; emphasizes spiritual wellness, prayer, and integrative care.

Transtheoretical Model of Change

Describes behavioral change as a progression through five stages.

Precontemplation Stage

Individual has no intention to change behavior within next six months.

Contemplation Stage

Individual thinks about change and intends to act within six months.

Preparation Stage

Individual plans to act soon and may begin small steps toward change.

Action Stage

Individual actively modifies behavior to achieve desired change.

Maintenance Stage

Sustained change; individual works to prevent relapse of old behavior.

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

Five-tier model ranking human needs from basic physiology to self-actualization.

Physiological Needs

Basic survival needs: air, water, nutrition, sleep, shelter, clothing, reproduction.

Safety Needs

Security, stability, protection, and freedom from fear or harm.

Love/Belonging (Social) Needs

Affection, intimacy, friendship, giving and receiving love.

Esteem Needs

Need for dignity, positive self-evaluation, respect, and achievement.

Self-Actualization

Realization of personal potential, self-fulfillment, and growth.

Proper Body Mechanics

Keep back straight, lift with knees, use wide base of support, keep loads at waist level, team lift when needed.

Nutrition Recommendations

Increase whole grains, fiber, and water intake; reduce caffeine consumption.

Sleep Recommendations

Aim for ~8 hours nightly and take restorative naps when possible.

Exercise Recommendations

Engage in light activity such as 30 minutes of walking daily.

Nursing Process (ADPIE)

Systematic clinical judgment: Assessment, Diagnosis (analyze), Planning, Implementation, Evaluation.