Online Companion: Fundamentals of Nursing Standards and Practice 2E

Chapter Objectives

After reading Chapter 15, the student should be ready to
• Describe the concepts health, illness, and wellness
• List three factors that influence an individual's health behaviors.
• Discuss the objectives of the Healthy People initiative
• Describe the nurse's role in promoting health and holism for individual clients.
• Describe how the nursing process is used to assist the client to fulfill spiritual needs.
• Discuss strategies the nurse takes to assist client whose sexual integrity is threatened by illness, hospitalization, disability or use of medications.
• Describe the role of the nurse in assessing a client for sexual abuse and sexually transmitted disease.