Chapter 24: Promoting Family Health

Question 1

Family

Answer 1

a basic unit of society consists of those individuals, male or female, youth or adult, legally or not legally related, genetically or not genetically related, who are considered by the others to represent their significant persons.

Question 2

Extended Family

Answer 2

relatives of the nuclear family such as grandparents or aunts and uncles.

Question 3

Family-Centered Nursing

Answer 3

nursing that considers the health of the family as a unit in addition to the health of individual family members.

Question 4

Nuclear Family

Answer 4

a family structure of parents and their offspring.

Question 5

3 Types of Clients

Answer 5

The individual, the family, and the community

Question 6

Functions of the Family

Answer 6

Protect the PHYSICAL HEALTH of its members through adequate nutrition, and health care services. Provides an atmosphere that influence the COGNITIVE and the PSYCHOSOCIAL GROWTH. Provide MUTUAL SUPPORT systems and to preserve their heritage.

Question 7

Traditional Family

Answer 7

an independent unit in which both parents reside in the house with their children

Question 8

Two-Career Family (Dual-Career)

Answer 8

both partners are employed and may or may not have children

Question 9

Single-Parent Family

Answer 9

Single parenthood. Stresses of single parenthood: child care concerns, financial concerns, role overload and fatigue in managing daily tasks, and social isolation.

Question 10

Adolescent Family

Answer 10

Young parents who have kids as a teenager. Developmentally, physically, emotionally, and financially ill prepared.

Question 11

Foster Family

Answer 11

accepts placement of children who can no longer live with their birth parents and are temporarily kept.

Question 12

Blended Family (Step Families)

Answer 12

Existing family units who join together to form new families (i.e. Brady Bunch)

Question 13

Intragenerational Family

Answer 13

More than 2 generations who live together

Question 14

Cohabiting Family (Communal)

Answer 14

consist of unrelated individuals or families who live under one roof.

Question 15

Gay and Lesbian Family

Answer 15

Homosexual couples who form families based on the same goals as a heterosexual family: caring and commitment

Question 16

Single Adults Living Alone

Answer 16

Include young self-supporting adults who have recently left the nuclear family as well as older adults living alone

Question 17

Systems Theory

Answer 17

Families, as open systems, are continually interacting with and influenced by other systems in the community. Boundaries regulate the input from other systems that interact wit the family system. The nurse considers how each element of the system affects the others.

Question 18

Structural-Functional Theory

Answer 18

addresses the membership of the family and the relationships among family members. Nurse develops a care plan that includes diagnoses and problems from the perspective of stabilizing or enhancing the family structure and function during this episode of disruption.