Family midterm Flashcards
The nurse is transferring to a care area that focuses on family nursing practice. What should the nurse realize about this approach to care?
- Interventions in family care address the future plans for the family.
- Family members must be present before the implementation of family care.
- Resources are placed to support an ill family member with the greatest chance for recovery.
- The nurse and family together define the family and where therapeutic energy should be placed.
- The nurse and family together define the family and where therapeutic energy should be placed.
The intervention that “family nurses must define with the family which persons constitute the family and where they will place their therapeutic energies” is an intervention used by family nurses to provide structure to working with families regardless of the theoretical underpinning of the nursing approach. This is an enduring idea that supports the practice of family nursing
The nurse notes that a client has been previously married and participates in raising the current spouse’s children from a previous marriage. How should the nurse document this family type?
- Extended
- Cohabitation
- Nuclear dyad
- Reconstituted
- Reconstituted
A reconstituted or blended family type is defined as an arrangement in which one or more of the parents was previously married and brings children from the previous marriage into the current marriage.
The nurse prepares an in-service program on family nursing for new graduate employees. Which definition of family is the best one for the nurse to use?
- Members of a family are self-defined
- People who share strong emotional ties
- A family is defined by blood ties, adoption, and marriage
- A group of people who live together with or without legal or biological ties
- Members of a family are self-defined.
The definition of family that is most inclusive and takes the individual family members into consideration is that the members of a family are self-defined
The nurse prepares to assess a client whose family is being used as a resource. Which approach to family nursing care is the nurse implementing?
- Family as client
- Family as system
- Family as context
- Family as component of society
- Family as context
The first approach to family nursing care focuses on the assessment and care of an individual client in which the family is the context. This is the traditional nursing focus, in which the individual is foreground and the family is background. The family serves as context for the individual as either a resource or a stressor to the individual’s health and illness.
During a home visit the nurse teaches the client and family about actions to reduce the spread of infection between the family members. Which role is the nurse implementing?
- Counselor
- Care deliverer
- Health teacher
- Family advocate
- Health teacher
The family nurse teaches about family wellness, illness, relations, and parenting.
The nurse stays with a client who is having chemotherapy for the first time until the family arrives. Which role is the nurse implementing with the client?
- Surrogate
- Researcher
- Role model
- Case manager
- Surrogate
The family nurse serves as a surrogate by substituting for another person, such as when he or she stays with the client until family arrives.
The nurse observes parents discussing an adolescent’s plans for the weekend and setting boundaries to which the adolescent agrees. Which function did this family unit demonstrate?
- Affective
- Economic
- Health care
- Socialization
- Affective
The affective function, one of the basic functions of family, is essential for creating a harmonic and stable environment, and optimal for healthy child development and for the satisfaction of all family members. Affective function has to do with the ways family members relate to one another and those outside the immediate family boundaries. Well-functioning families are able to maintain a consistent level of involvement with one another, yet at the same time not become too involved in each other’s lives.
The adult daughter of an older client is expected to be at the client’s bedside yet personal family responsibilities are not being completed. Which family interactional process is the daughter experiencing?
- Role strain
- Role conflict
- Role ambiguity
- Role expectations
- Role conflict
Role conflict occurs when expectations about familial roles are incompatible. The adult daughter needs to help an aging parent; however, she is also expected to maintain personal role functions.
The spouse of a client with complex care needs is unavailable to attend a care conference at 2 p.m. What should the nurse do to support family nursing care?
- Have the client attend in place of the spouse
- Schedule the conference when the spouse is available
- Ask the spouse to telephone in during the time of the conference
- Provide the spouse with outcomes determined during the meeting
- Schedule the conference when the spouse is available
One obstacle to family nursing practice is the hours for care. Because the spouse is not available during the scheduled meeting, the approach to overcome this obstacle is to schedule the meeting when the spouse can attend.
The nurse prepares to assess a family during a home visit. Which traits should the nurse expect that demonstrate a healthy family? Select all that apply.
- Develops suspicion among members
- Exhibits a sense of shared responsibility
- Admits to and seeks help with problems
- Enforces participation in rituals and tradition
- Shares leisure time
- Exhibits a sense of shared responsibility
A trait common to healthy families is exhibiting a sense of shared responsibility.
- Admits to and seeks help with problems
A trait common to healthy families is admitting to and seeking help with problems.
- Shares leisure time
A trait common to healthy families is sharing leisure time.
The nurse reviews potential theories to use as a guide for providing care to a family in the community. What should the nurse keep in mind as a major function of theory in family nursing?
- Identifies a specific hypothesis
- Answers “How?” or “Why?” questions
- Examines how the concepts create a meaningful pattern
- Improves nursing services provided to families
- Improves nursing services provided to families.
The major function of theory in family nursing is to provide knowledge and understanding that improves nursing services to families
The nurse reviews a theory for applicability to a family health situation. On which part of the theory should the nurse focus in order to understand the expected relationship between the theory’s concepts?
- System
- Hypothesis
- Propositions
- Conceptual model
- Hypothesis
A hypothesis is a way of stating an expected relationship between concepts or an expected proposition.
The nurse prepares to assess a family according to a family development theory. Which action will the nurse complete first during this assessment?
- Health of individual members
- Employment status of the parents
- Family structure and life cycle stages
- Education status of the children
- Family structure and life cycle stages.
When conducting family assessments using the developmental model, nurses begin by determining the family structure and where this family falls in the family life cycle stages.
The nurse is struggling with using a developmental model when assessing a family new to a community. Which data could explain the difficulty the nurse is having using this model?
- The parental units are same-sexed.
- The youngest son is beginning college.
- The middle child is attending high school.
- The oldest daughter has just gotten married.
- The parental units are same-sexed.
A primary criticism of family development theory is that it best describes the trajectory of intact, two-parent, heterosexual nuclear families. It does not consider same-sex couples and normalizes one type of family while ignoring others.
The nurse reviews the bioecological system theory before discussing this approach with a group of new graduate nurses. What should the nurse explain as the blueprint for the ecology of human and family development?
- There is no one system that can serve as a blueprint.
- Macrosystems contain mesosystems and exosystems.
- The microsystem sets the stage for all future development.
- Sociohistorical conditions determine developmental progress.
- Macrosystems contain mesosystems and exosystems.
Mesosystems and exosystems are set within macrosystems, and together they are the “blueprints” for the ecology of human and family development.
The nurse uses the bioecological system theory to assess a family. On which system should the nurse focus to determine the impact of the mother’s change in employment?
- Mesosystem
- Exosystem
- Microsystem
- Macrosystem
- Exosystem
An exosystem is an external environment that influences an individual and family indirectly such as the effect of job experience on family life.
The nurse selects the family systems theory as a guide for providing care to a family. Which concept of this theory should the nurse use to maintain the stability of this family? Select all that apply.
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
- All parts of the system are interconnected.
- Families develop and change over time.
- Systems can be organized into subsystems.
- There is a boundary between the system and the environment.
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
The second concept of the family systems theory is that the whole is more than the sum of its parts. This means that the family as a whole is composed of more than the individual lives of family members. It goes beyond parents and children as separate entities. Families are not just relationships between the parent-child but are all relationships seen together.
- All parts of the system are interconnected.
The first concept of the family systems theory is that all parts of the system are interconnected. This means that whatever influences one part of the system influences all parts of the system.
- Systems can be organized into subsystems.
The fourth concept in the family systems theory is that systems can be further organized into subsystems. These subsystems identify relationships between family members and are used to create interventions specific to the needs of those members.
- There is a boundary between the system and the environment.
The third concept is that all systems have some form of boundary between the system and the environment. Boundaries are physical or abstract imaginary lines that families use as barriers or filters to control the impact of stressors on the family system.
The nurse works in an environment in which a family therapy theory serves as the model for assessing and planning care. Which data should the nurse expect when assessing the family?
- Pathology
- Health problem
- Illness treatment
- Normal trajectory
- Pathology
The target population for family therapy theories is families with pathology or troubled families.
The nurse learns that the father of a family passed away at age 41. How should the nurse classify this family event in relation to family development theory? Select all that apply.
- On time
- Off time
- Normative
- Conflicting
- Nonnormative
- Off time
Off time refers to a family transition within family development theory. It is considered to be “off time” when a family unit experiences something that is against a societal norm such as having children before being married.
- Nonnormative
Nonnormative refers to a change in a family that occurs out of sequence or is caused by an illness or other family event.
The nurse notes that the community health clinic has added a section for “family” on the assessment form. Which definition is most likely being used for “family”?
- Biologically related members
- Anyone who lives in the same residence
- Anyone who the client says is the family
- Two or more people living together related by birth, marriage, or adoption
- Two or more people living together related by birth, marriage, or adoption
The U.S. Census Bureau defines a family as two or more people living together and who are related by birth, marriage, or adoption.
The nurse prepares to employ the family systems theory to assess a family. Which actions will the nurse complete during this assessment? Select all that apply.
- Complete a family ecomap
- Determine normative and nonnormative events
- Complete a family genogram
- Conduct family member care-planning sessions
- Collect data on the family and individual members
- Complete a family ecomap
A family ecomap is completed to see how individuals and the family relate to the community around them.
- Complete a family genogram
A family genogram is completed to understand patterns and relationships over several generations over time.
- Conduct family member care-planning sessions
Care-planning sessions are held to address the needs of individual members and the family as a whole.
- Collect data on the family and individual members
Assessment questions relate to the interaction between the individual and the family, and the interaction between the family and the community in which the family lives.
The nurse provides care in the women and children’s shelter twice a week. What characteristic of the child should the nurse consider when providing care?
- Educationally equal to children living in a permanent home
- Educationally inferior to children living in a permanent home
- Emotionally advanced to children living in a permanent home
- Emotionally inferior to children living in a permanent home
- Educationally inferior to children living in a permanent home
Homeless children are more likely to repeat a grade in school.
The nurse learns that a child being seen in the community clinic has health coverage through the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). What does this coverage indicate to the nurse?
- The child has a chronic disability.
- The child receives special education.
- The child is being raised in a single-parent family.
- The child has no insurance and is not eligible for Medicaid.
- The child has no insurance and is not eligible for Medicaid.
CHIP was enacted in 1997 to address the lack of health insurance coverage for children who do not qualify for Medicaid.
The nurse prepares a presentation on health disparities for the city council. What should the nurse identify as the social determinant contributing to health disparities?
- Poverty
- Housing
- Education
- Food security
- Poverty
Poverty is likely the most fundamental social determinant contributing to health disparities.