Pharma (lec)

• Health is an individual or group is able to realize aspirations and satisfy needs and to change or cope with the environment
• Health is a positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources as well as physical capacities
• Illness: Subjective; Symptoms and suffering
• Disease: Objective; practitioner views
• Nurse role is to identify their place on the spectrum; assist to move towards a better state of health
• Pathology is the study of changes in: Cells; tissues; organs; due to disease
• Physiology is the study of body function
• Pathophysiology is the study of the body's response to disease
• Hypertrophy: Change in size; increase in cell mass with increased functional capacity
• Atrophy: Decrease in cell size
• Disuse: Reduction of functional demand
• Denervation: Loss of nervous stimulation
• Ischemia: Decreased blood supply
• Starvation: Lack of nutrients for cells
• Absence/Ineffective hormonal use: Lack of GH
• Hyperplasia: Change in number
• Cell injury: Usually can be healed
• Reversible: Due to accumulates of water or fat
• Irreversible: Due to ischemia or toxic injury
• Cell death or Necrosis: Will lead to amputation
• Acute illness: Suden onset
• Signs: Objective; Practitioner view
• Symptoms: Subjective; Patient view
• Chronic illness: Persist over extended period of time
• Morbidity: Rates of disease
• Mortality: Rates of death