NURS 304 Midterm Exam Questions with Correct Answers Latest Update 2026/2027
Facilitating family health - Answers Success in ________ is achieved using these tactics:
-assess family meaning
-identify family strengths
-educate about healthy living
-assist in referrals
-foster family involvement
Calgary Family Assessment Model (CFAM) - Answers Tool for assessing families, categorized
into three sections: structural, developmental, functional.
Structural (CFAM) - Answers -Internal (genogram): gender, sexual orientation, rank order.
-External (ecomap): extended family connections
-Context (background info): race, social class, religion, environment
Development (CFAM) - Answers -Developmental stages: leaving home, joining families, families
with young children, families with adolescents, launching children out, families in later life.
-Developmental tasks: career, marriage
-Developmental attachments (emotional): between family members
Functional (CFAM) - Answers -Instrumental: ADLs
-Expressive: beliefs, communication, roles.
Communication may be verbal, emotional, nonverbal, circular, problem-solving, role clarification,
influential, powerful, creating alliances.
Stages of health and illness - Answers These stages outline what?
1. family effort at health promotion
2. family appraisal of symptoms
3. care seeking
4. obtaining care
5. acute response to the illness
6. adaption and recovery
, Family Nursing Process - Answers -Family assessment
-Nursing diagnosis
-Plan of care (goals)
-Interventions
-Evaluate and modify
Family interview stages - Answers Engage: promote relationship and explain interview.
Assess: problem identification, plan interview and priorities.
Intervene: explore solutions that are cognitive/affective/behavioral.
Terminate: obtain feedback
Errors in family nursing - Answers 1. Failure to create context for change.
-correct way: empathy, mindfulness respect, validate family experiences, acknowledge
suffering/coping.
2. Taking sides.
-correct way: ask questions to both sides, give equal "talk time", avoid side conversations
3. Giving too much advice prematurely.
-correct way: recognize circular communication, recognize nurses have power and influence,
use timing and judgement, observe reactions to advice
15 minute interview - Answers Tool linking classroom to clinical. Engages family to empower
nurses, patients, and families.
-use therapeutic conversation: timely, purposeful, listen.
-use manners: introductions, respect.
-involve genograms/ecomaps
-therapeutic questions: linear (investigate) or circular (revealing)
-commend family strengths: positive regard
Calgary Family Intervention Model (CFIM) - Answers A framework used to conceptualize the
intersections between facility function and interventions given by the nurse.
Can be divided into 3 domains:
Facilitating family health - Answers Success in ________ is achieved using these tactics:
-assess family meaning
-identify family strengths
-educate about healthy living
-assist in referrals
-foster family involvement
Calgary Family Assessment Model (CFAM) - Answers Tool for assessing families, categorized
into three sections: structural, developmental, functional.
Structural (CFAM) - Answers -Internal (genogram): gender, sexual orientation, rank order.
-External (ecomap): extended family connections
-Context (background info): race, social class, religion, environment
Development (CFAM) - Answers -Developmental stages: leaving home, joining families, families
with young children, families with adolescents, launching children out, families in later life.
-Developmental tasks: career, marriage
-Developmental attachments (emotional): between family members
Functional (CFAM) - Answers -Instrumental: ADLs
-Expressive: beliefs, communication, roles.
Communication may be verbal, emotional, nonverbal, circular, problem-solving, role clarification,
influential, powerful, creating alliances.
Stages of health and illness - Answers These stages outline what?
1. family effort at health promotion
2. family appraisal of symptoms
3. care seeking
4. obtaining care
5. acute response to the illness
6. adaption and recovery
, Family Nursing Process - Answers -Family assessment
-Nursing diagnosis
-Plan of care (goals)
-Interventions
-Evaluate and modify
Family interview stages - Answers Engage: promote relationship and explain interview.
Assess: problem identification, plan interview and priorities.
Intervene: explore solutions that are cognitive/affective/behavioral.
Terminate: obtain feedback
Errors in family nursing - Answers 1. Failure to create context for change.
-correct way: empathy, mindfulness respect, validate family experiences, acknowledge
suffering/coping.
2. Taking sides.
-correct way: ask questions to both sides, give equal "talk time", avoid side conversations
3. Giving too much advice prematurely.
-correct way: recognize circular communication, recognize nurses have power and influence,
use timing and judgement, observe reactions to advice
15 minute interview - Answers Tool linking classroom to clinical. Engages family to empower
nurses, patients, and families.
-use therapeutic conversation: timely, purposeful, listen.
-use manners: introductions, respect.
-involve genograms/ecomaps
-therapeutic questions: linear (investigate) or circular (revealing)
-commend family strengths: positive regard
Calgary Family Intervention Model (CFIM) - Answers A framework used to conceptualize the
intersections between facility function and interventions given by the nurse.
Can be divided into 3 domains:
