Chapter 4 (part 1) - Prelim

Question 1

this involves a set of actions by which a nurse measures the states of a family as a client, its ability to maintain itself as a system and functioning unit and its ability to maintain
wellness, prevent, control or resolve problems in order to achieve health and well-being among its members.

Answer 1

Assessment

Question 2

this involves a set of actions by which a nurse measures the states of a family as a client, its ability to maintain itself as a system and functioning unit and its ability to maintain
wellness, prevent, control or resolve problems in order to achieve health and well-being among its members.

Answer 2

Presence of wellness condition

Question 3

is a nursing judgment on wellness state or condition based on client’s performance, current competencies, or performance, clinical data or explicit expression of
desire to achieve a higher level of state or function in a specific area on health promotion and maintenance.

Answer 3

Wellness potential

Question 4

conditions that are conducive to disease and accident, or may result to failure to maintain wellness or realize health potential.

Answer 4

Presence of health threats

Question 5

instances of failure in health maintenance.

Answer 5

presence of health deficits

Question 6

anticipated periods of unusual demand on the individual or family in terms of adjustment/family resources.

Answer 6

Presence of stress points/foreseeable crisis situations

Question 7

is the best tool used in the community to assess the family’s ability to take care of the sick member and to maintain an environment conducive to healing.

Answer 7

Family coping index

Question 8

– categorized into wellness state/potential, health threat, health deficit and foreseeable crisis:

Answer 8

Nature of the condition or problem presented

Question 9

refers to the probability of success in enhancing
the wellness state, improving the condition, minimizing, alleviating or totally eradicating the
problem through intervention;

Answer 9

Modifiability of the condition or problem

Question 10

refers to the nature and magnitude of future problems that can be
minimized or totally prevented if intervention is done on the condition or problem under
consideration;

Answer 10

Preventive Potential

Question 11

refers to the family’s perception and evaluation of the condition or problem in terms of seriousness and urgency of attention needed or family readiness.

Answer 11

Salience

Question 12

allows individuals to increase control over their own health. Its extensive range of social and environmental interventions benefits and protects individual people’s health and quality of life. These interventions address and prevent the origin of ill health, not just focusing on treatment and cure.

Answer 12

PROMOTIVE

Question 13

refers to measures that aim to avoid or reduce injuries and diseases, their sequelae and complications. Prevention is based on a health promotion strategy
that involves a process to enable people to improve their health through the control over some of its immediate determinants. This includes a wide range of expected outcomes, which are covered through a diversity of interventions, organized as primary,
secondary and tertiary prevention levels.

Answer 13

PREVENTIVE

Question 14

encompasses health care contacts during which the principal intent is to
relieve symptoms of illness or injury, to reduce the severity of an illness or injury, or to protect against exacerbation and/or complication of an illness and/or injury that could
threaten life or normal function.

Answer 14

CURATIVE

Question 15

is an integrative strategy with the purpose of empowering persons with
health conditions who are experiencing or are likely to experience disability so that they Can achieve and maintain optimal functioning, a decent quality of life and inclusion in
the community and society.

Answer 15

REHABILITATIVE

Question 16

ta tool by which the nurse, during her visit will enable her to perform a nursing procedure with ease and deftness, to save time and effort, with the end
view of rendering effective nursing care to clients.

Answer 16

Bag technique

Question 17

to avail of the services thereto offered by the
facility primarily for consultation on matters that ailed them physically.

Answer 17

Clinic Visit

Question 18

is usually conducted prior to the admission of patients, which is one way of providing health education.

Answer 18

Pre-clinic lecture

Question 19

is a family-nurse contact which allows the health worker to assess the
home and family situations in order to provide the necessary nursing care and health related activities.

Answer 19

Home visit

Question 20

is less expensive for the nurse and provides the
opportunity to use equipment that cannot be taken to the home.

Answer 20

Clinic or office conference

Question 21

may be effective, efficient and appropriate if the objectives and outcomes of care require immediate access to data, given problems on distance or travel time.

Answer 21

telephone conference

Question 22

is another less time- consuming option for the nurse in instances when there are many priority families needing follow-up on top of problems of
distance and travel time.

Answer 22

Written communication

Question 23

provides an opportunity to work with the family and school authorities on how to determine the degree of vulnerability of and work out interventions to
help children and adolescents on specific health risks, hazards or adjustment problems.

Answer 23

School visit or conference

Question 24

is done when the nurse and the family need to make
an accurate assessment of health risks or hazards, and work with employer or supervisor on what can be done to improve on provisions for health and safety of workers.

Answer 24

Industrial plant or job site visit