Author Question: A nurse assessing a patient with the role performance model of health in mind would add which ... (Read 26 times)

notis · **on:** Jul 22, 2018

A nurse assessing a patient with the role performance model of health in mind would add which question to the nursing assessment as a priority?

a. Are you able to meet your needs when you are sick?
b. How has this illness affected your daily activities?
c. How much stress do you have in your life right now?
d. When did the symptoms first become bothersome?

Question 2

The nursing instructor summarizes Imogene King's view of health as

a. a state of harmony with the environment.
b. being able to function in social roles.
c. stability within the human system.
d. the absence of illness or disability.

owenfalvey · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 22, 2018

Answer to Question 1

B
Daily activities reflect roles, and the role performance model of health looks at disease as interfering with the ability to fulfill one's social roles.
The adaptive model of health addresses whether or not patients are able to meet their own needs.
The adaptive model of health addresses the amount of stress patients have in their lives.
The clinical model of health considers the absence of disease (and absence of symptoms) to be the defining characteristic of health.

Answer to Question 2

B
For King, health is the ability to function in social roles.
Rogers' science of unitary beings is concerned with harmonious interactions between humans and their environment.
Stability within the human system is a concept in Betty Neuman's systems model.
None of the nursing theorists studied view health as the absence of illness or disability.