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NUR101 Mod 1/C
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Health Literacy | Ability of individuals to understand basic health information and to use that information to make good decisions about their health. |
| Acute Illness | Occurs suddenly, Lasts a limited time |
| Chronic Illness | Last for 6 months or longer, Characterized by intensifying or improving symptoms |
| Remission | Minimal symptoms or complete absence of symptoms |
| Exacerbation | periods of worsening of symptoms |
| Prodromal Phase | Before symptoms develop, patient may not feel good |
| Symptomatic Phase | Observable symptoms, sore throat, fever, person treats their self |
| Seeking Help Phase | Person seeks medical help or depending on culture a healer or herbalist, then must decide if they are going to take the advice |
| Dependency Phase | A person relies on others for diagnosis and treatment They also rely on other to do their work and household duties |
| Recovery Phase | the person is slowly able to resume to dependency and regain health |
| Non-modifiable risk factors | Gender, age, heredity/genetics |
| Modifiable risk factors | can be eliminated or made better such as obesity, smoking, HTN, stress |
| Stress | Nonspecific response of body to any demand made on it |
| Stressor | stress inducing event, can be physical, emotional, pleasant or unpleasant |
| Adaptation | Ability to positively adjust to changes that occur in an individual’s world |
| Negative Stressor | has potential to cause harm. Examples: physical illness, disease, death of family member |
| Positive Stressor | events that although welcomed may be viewed as stressful, Examples: marriage, job change, graduation |
| Denial | Disregard for reality |
| Repression | unconscious process for barring conscious thought of painful, disagreeable thoughts, experiences or impulses |
| Dissociation | separation and detachment of emotional significance and affect from an idea or situation |
| Rationalization | constructing plausible reasons to explain and justify one’s behavior |
| Compensation | making up for a deficiency in one area by excelling in or emphasizing another |
| Reaction formation- | conscious behavior that reflects an emotion opposite to the emotion actually felt |
| Regression | exhibition of behavior, thoughts, or feelings used at an earlier stage of development |
| Sublimation | the discharge of sexual or aggressive energy and impulses in a socially acceptable way |
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Ms. A LPNI
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