Family Health Nursing

Question 1

Group of persons usually living together and composed of the head and other persons related to the head by blood, marriage or adoption (US Census Bureau, 2005)

Answer 1

Family

Question 2

Consist of individual, each with socially recognized status and position who interact with one another on a regular, recurring basis (Henson,
Gedaly Duff and Kaakinen, 2005)

Answer 2

Family Structure or Family Composition

Question 3

It refers to the interactions of family members, especially the quality of relationships and interactions (Bomar 2004)

Answer 3

Family Function

Question 4

What are the purpose of family function?

Answer 4

• To meet the need of the society
• To meet the need of the individual
• To provide sustenance and support in the 5 areas of wholeness: physical, emotional, intellectual, social, spiritual

Question 5

What are the purpose of the family?

Answer 5

• To ensure survival of the unit and its individual members
• To continue the society and it’s knowledge, customs, values and beliefs
• It establishes a primary connection with a group responsible for a person until that person becomes independent

Question 6

What are the 8 tasks identified by Duvall and Miller (1990) that is essential for a family to perform to survive as a healthy unit?

Answer 6

• Physical Sustenance
• Allocation of Resources
• Emotional Support
• Intellectual Stimulation
• Socialization
• Spirituality
• Status Placement
• Maintenance of Order
• Division of Labor

Question 7

The family is responsible for meeting each member’s needs for food, clothing , shelter and protection from harm including illness.

“the wage earner”

Answer 7

Physical Sustenance

Question 8

The family determines which needs have priority and what resources will be used to meet those needs.

“the financial manager”

Answer 8

Allocation of Resources

Question 9

Parent child relationships to emotional adjustments later in life

Good behaviors rewarded and bad punished

Welfare and protection

“the nurturer”

Answer 9

Emotional Support

Question 10

Parents read to the unborn children and play music to provide early stimulation

The need for intellectual development continues throughout life

Answer 10

Intellectual Stimulation

Question 11

This task includes being certain that children feel part of the family and learning appropriate ways to interact with people outside the family such as teachers, neighbors, or police. It means the family has an open communication system among family members and outward to the community.

Answer 11

Socialization

Question 12

The values and meaning in life; Religion. It involves the procreation and economic function.

Answer 12

Spirituality

Question 13

Society is characterized by a hierarchy of its members into social classes

The family confers its societal rank on the children

“the gate keeper”

Answer 13

Status Placement

Question 14

Opening effective means of communication among family members, establishing family values, enforcing common regulations for all family members

Answer 14

Maintenance of Order

Question 15

Who fulfill certain roles in times of illness/ death roles may change

Reproduction , recruitment and release of family member

Answer 15

Division of Labor

Question 16

What are the 2 basic family types can be described?

Answer 16

• Family of Orientation

- Family of Procreation

Question 17

A basic family type where the family one is born into; or oneself, parents, and siblings, if any

Answer 17

Family of Orientation

Question 18

A basic family type where a family one establishes; or oneself, spouse or
significant other, and children, if any

Answer 18

Family of Procreation

Question 19

Consist of married couple and their biologic children. They live together including the siblings. No other persons are present.

(Family Structure)

Answer 19

Traditional Nuclear Family

Question 20

Composed of two parents and their children (either biologic or adopted) who share a common household. Parents are not necessarily married. No other relatives or non relatives are present in the household.

(Family Structure)

Answer 20

Nuclear Family

Question 21

Consisting only of husband and wife, such as newly married couples and “empty nesters”.
Two people living together

(Family Structure)

Answer 21

The Dyad Family

Question 22

Also called reconstituted family. It includes at least one stepparent, stepsibling or half sibling.

(Family Structure)

Answer 22

Blended Family / Step Family

Question 23

Consist of one or more nuclear families plus other relatives, often crossing generations to include grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins.

(Family Structure)

Answer 23

Extended Family

Question 24

Children born out of wedlock, divorce, death, desertion or single parenthood.

(Family Structure)

Answer 24

Single Parent Family

Question 25

Refers to parents continuing the parenting role while terminating the spousal unit.

(Family Structure)

Answer 25

Binuclear

Question 26

Spouses in polygamous mating. Also called compound family

Polygyny (multiple wives)
Polyandry (multiple husbands)

(Family Structure)

Answer 26

Polygamous

Question 27

People who share home making and child rearing functions and help overcome the problem of interpersonal isolation or loneliness. All children are responsibility of adult members.

(Family Structure)

Answer 27

Communal

Question 28

Two people of the same sex live together, bound by formal or informal commitment with or without children. Children maybe result of heterosexual mating, product of foster child, artificial insemination, surrogacy.

(Family Structure)

Answer 28

Gay or Lesbian (LGBT)

Question 29

Composed of couples, perhaps with children as a result of earlier union, who live together but remain unmarried. “live-in”, or “common-law”

(Family Structure)

Answer 29

Cohabition

Question 30

Families of a great many types (nuclear, extended, cohabitation, blended, single parent, gay, and lesbian) adopt children today. No matter what the family structure is, adopting brings joy and fulfillment to a family.

(Family Structure)

Answer 30

Adoptive Family

Question 31

Children whose parents can no longer care for them may be placed in a foster or substitute home by a child protection agency.

Answer 31

The Foster Family

Question 32

It can be used to describe families and how family unit responds to events both within and outside the family.

Answer 32

Family Theories

Question 33

Viewed as a system that continually interacts with its members and the environment. Change in one family member creates a change in other members which in turn results in a new a change in other member.

Answer 33

Family Systems Theory

Question 34

It explains how families react to stressful events and suggests factors that promote adaption to stress. Families encounter stressors that affect change in the family (e.g. birth of a baby, death, unemployment, illness, marriage).

Answer 34

Family Stress theory

Question 35

It is an outgrowth of several theories of development. Where it addresses family change over time.

Answer 35

Developmental Theory

Question 36

It is developed by Urie Bron Fenbrenner (1997). This theory describes how environment and
systems outside the family influence the
development of a child over time. It is very useful to help identify stresses and potential resources that can affect family
adaptation.

Answer 36

Bio-Ecological System Theory