CNUR 300 Family Health NEWEST EXAM
STUDYGUIDE QUESTIONS AND
DETAILED CORRECT ANSWERS| 2024-
2025
The Circumplex Model of Marital and Family Systems
Correct Answer describes the flexibility, cohesion, and
communication of a family.
3 major hypotheses of this model include:
- balanced couples and families are happier and more
functional than unbalanced systems
- balanced couples and families demonstrate more
effective communication than unbalanced systems
- balanced couples and families adapt to stressors and
changes over time by being flexible and becoming more
cohesive, compared to unbalanced systems
Textbook definition of family health care nursing Correct
Answer "the process of providing for the health care needs
of families that are within the scope of nursing practice.
This nursing care can be aimed toward the family as
context, the family as a whole, the family as a system, or
the family as a component of society"
One of the 10 interventions used by family nurses to
provide structure to working with families. (1) Correct
Answer Family care is concerned with the experience of
the family over time. It considers both the history and the
future of the family group.
,One of the 10 interventions used by family nurses to
provide structure to working with families. (2) Correct
Answer Family nursing considers the community and
cultural context of the group. The family is encouraged to
receive from, and give to, community resources.
One of the 10 interventions used by family nurses to
provide structure to working with families. (3) Correct
Answer Family nursing considers the relationship between
and among family members and recognizes that, in some
instances, all individual members of the family group will
not achieve maximum health simultaneously.
One of the 10 interventions used by family nurses to
provide structure to working with families. (4) Correct
Answer Family nursing is directed at families with both
healthy and ill members, regardless of the severity of the
illness in the family member.
One of the 10 interventions used by family nurses to
provide structure to working with families. (5) Correct
Answer Family nursing is often offered in settings where
individuals have physiological or psychological problems.
Together with competency in treatment o individual health
problems, family nurses must recognize the reciprocity
between an individual family member's health and
collective health within the family
One of the 10 interventions used by family nurses to
provide structure to working with families. (6) Correct
,Answer Family nursing requires the nurse to manipulate
the environment to increase the likelihood of family
interaction. The physical absence of family members,
however, does not preclude the nurse from offering family
care.
One of the 10 interventions used by family nurses to
provide structure to working with families. (7) Correct
Answer The family system is influenced by any change in
its members. In family nursing, the focus includes the
individual as well as how the family system and all the
family members are affected by the health event.
One of the 10 interventions used by family nurses to
provide structure to working with families. (8) Correct
Answer The family nurse recognizes that the person in a
family who is most symptomatic may change over time;
this means that the focus of the nurse's attention will also
change over time.
One of the 10 interventions used by family nurses to
provide structure to working with families. (9) Correct
Answer Family nursing focuses on the strengths of
individual family members and the family group to promote
their mutual support and growth.
One of the 10 interventions used by family nurses to
provide structure to working with families. (10) Correct
Answer Family nurses must define with the family which
people constitute the family and where they will place their
therapeutic energies.
, Approaches to family nursing - Family as context Correct
Answer Individual as foreground, family as background.
Approaches to family nursing - Family as client Correct
Answer Family as foreground, individual as background.
example: NICU
Approaches to family nursing - Family as system Correct
Answer Interaction or impact on the family due to the
health status of a members. Includes family systems
theory
the philosophy and practice of family health care nursing
encompasses the 3 following assumptions: Correct
Answer 1. Health and illness affect all members of families
2. Health and illness are family events
3. Families influence the process and outcome of health
care
ANA defines the expectations and obligations of nursing
as: Correct Answer "the protection, promotion, and
optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness
and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis
and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the
care of individuals, families, communities, and
populations."
legal family Correct Answer relationships through blood
ties, adoption, guardianship, or marriage
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