Nursing NUR101 Chapter 1: week 1
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Concepts of health and what determines health have changed significantly since the 1970s. Nursing models are metaparadigm: metaparadigm is the broadest perspective of the discipline, a way to describe the concepts about the profession. In nursing its people, environment, nursing and recently social justice. Wellness is a subjective experience of health. Disease is an objective state of ill health, the pathological process of which can be detected by medical science, Health is an objective process characterized by functional stability, balance, and integrity, Health organization (who) (1947) defined health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not just the absence of disease or infirmity. this is still the most commonly cited definition of health. Health is defined as the maintenance of physiological, functional, and social norms, and it relates to concepts of adaptation and homeostasis. Health is defined as the actualization of human potential.
