Chapter 7 Health Promotion and the Family Flashcards
Improvement of which five of the following habits would substantially reduce mortality rates?
Select all that apply.
a. Smoking
b. Stress
c. Poor diet
d. Alcohol abuse
e. Medication use
f. Lack of exercise
g. Emergency room visits
a. smoking
b. stress
c. Poor diet
d. alcohol abuse
f. Lack of exercise
The nurse’s educational role reflecting health promotion and disease prevention during the couple stage of family development is the:
a. teacher of risk factors to health.
b. coordinator with pediatric services.
c. teacher of first aid and emergency measures.
d. coordinator for genetic counseling.
d. coordinator for genetic counseling.
The cognitive-perceptual pattern assessment includes:
a. who decides when children go to sleep.
b. what types of daily activities include physical exercise.
c. what kinds of feelings family members have for each other.
d. how the family makes decisions about health promotion and disease prevention.
d. how the family makes decisions about health promotion and disease prevention.
What are the four types of nursing interventions used in health-promotion and disease-prevention planning for the family?
Select all that apply.
a. Increasing knowledge and skills
b. Increasing strengths
c. Decreasing exposure to risks
d. Decreasing susceptibility
e. Decreasing interdependence
a. Increasing knowledge and skills
b. Increasing strengths
c. Decreasing exposure to risks
d. Decreasing susceptibility
What biological risk factors may be an issue when working with families?
Select all that apply.
a. Genetic inheritance
b. Stress and anxiety
c. Congenital malformation
d. Mental retardation
e. Water pollution
a. Genetic inheritance
c. Congenital malformation
d. Mental retardation
What are some of the benefits of assessing a family through the use of an ecomap and genogram?
Select all that apply.
a. A genogram allows a visual display of family health conditions.
b. Family histories provide the nurse with a unique perspective of family risk for inherited diseases.
c. Slashed lines on an ecomap are used to signify death.
d. The ecomap uses a structural approach to the assessment of family roles and function.
e. The ecomap is useful in determining environmental hazards related to geography.
a. A genogram allows a visual display of family health conditions.
b. Family histories provide the nurse with a unique perspective of family risk for inherited diseases.
The nurse assesses a family’s coping-stress tolerance pattern by exploring their:
a. cultural beliefs.
b. traditions and practices.
c. dysfunctional adaptive strategies.
d. expectations of marriage and parenthood.
c. dysfunctional adaptive strategies
The nurse uses developmental theory by evaluating the family’s:
a. analysis of baseline data.
b. rigid and permeable boundaries.
c.
c. structural and functional components.
d. prospective tasks and progression through cycles.
d. prospective tasks and progression through cycles
The nurse’s role with the family with older adults includes serving as a counselor of:
a. bereavement.
b. menopause.
c. family planning.
d. sexually transmittable diseases.
a. bereavement
The nurse teaches parents that the most important factor in the child’s physical, emotional, and cognitive development is:
a. parental maturity.
b. parental influence.
c. experiences with children.
d. how they were nurtured as children.
b. parental influence
