NSG527 CERTIFICATION TEST REVIEW 2026
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE
◉ Basal ganglia (4 parts). Answer: 1. Striatum
2. Pallidum
3. Substansia Nigra
4. Subthalamic nucleus
◉ Basal ganglia. Answer: • brings together a motion, executive
function, motivation, and motor activity.
• Involved in posture, walking and eye movements.
• Moderates motor expression of emotional state (hitting, biting,
licking.)
• Also involved in memory, cognition and emotion.
• Controls extrapyramidal motor tract.
◉ Corpus callosum. Answer: Allows for communication between the
right and left hemispheres of the brain?
◉ 6 Key aspects involved in providing cultural competent health
care?. Answer: 1 Awareness and acceptance of cultural differences
2 Self-awareness of one's culture
,3 Understanding the dynamics of cultural differences
4 Knowledge of the client's family culture
5 Adaptation of services to support the client's culture
6 Responding to families/family members in an empathetic manner.
◉ cultural empathy. The nurse should assess?. Answer: family self-
identified ethnicity, family's degree of acculturation (languages
spoken, recent migration, Native culture, community
discriminations, etc, religious preferences or practices)
◉ Family systems 7 Basic strategies for working with?. Answer: 1.
Select appropriate system to work with
2. Providing more time to work with unacculturated families
3. Dealing with language differences
4. Taking into account families interactional norms
5. Focusing on family strengths and families' positive adaptation
6. Promoting positive change
7. Being aware of and utilizing family's support systems
◉ first attachment theorist described as "lasting psychological
connectedness between human beings?. Answer: John Bowlby
,◉ He believed early bonds formed by children with caregivers have
tremendous impact and continues throughout life?. Answer: John
Bowlby
◉ Central theme is that primary caregivers respond to infants needs
and child develops a sense of security?. Answer: Attachment theory
◉ expanded on Bowleys' original work in 1970. She described 3
major styles of attachment: secure, ambivalent-insecure, and
avoidant-insecure attachment?. Answer: Ainsworth
◉ Attachment theory stages?. Answer: 1. Pre-attachment birth - 3
months
2.Indiscriminate 6 weeks - 7 months,
3.Discriminate Attachment: 7 -11 months
4.Multiple Attachment: after 9 months
◉ Indiscriminate 6 weeks - 7 months. Answer: infants begin to show
preference for primary/secondary caregivers. Begin to feel trust that
caregivers will respond to their needs. By 7 months begin to
distinguish familiar and unfamiliar people, respond more positively
to primary caregiver?
◉ Discriminate Attachment: 7 -11 months. Answer: show a strong
attachment to specific individual, will begin to protest when
, separated from primary attachment- separation anxiety and begin to
display stranger anxiety?
◉ Primary. Answer: Prevent the occurrence of disease?
◉ Secondary. Answer: After the disease occurrence
Early detection, diagnosis, treatment of signs and symptoms?
◉ Tertiary. Answer: Recovery and rehabilitation
Maximize the level of functioning?
◉ Role of the Family Nurse-Functions-Primary prevention. Answer:
Health promotion and disease prevention
Most exciting role for the family nurse
Teach families to take responsibility for health and attain health
goals by enjoying a healthy lifestyle?Type of prevention?
◉ Role of the Family Nurse-Functions- Secondary prevention.
Answer: Conduct screening assessments
Make referrals
Determine patterns of dysfunction
Health teaching?
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE
◉ Basal ganglia (4 parts). Answer: 1. Striatum
2. Pallidum
3. Substansia Nigra
4. Subthalamic nucleus
◉ Basal ganglia. Answer: • brings together a motion, executive
function, motivation, and motor activity.
• Involved in posture, walking and eye movements.
• Moderates motor expression of emotional state (hitting, biting,
licking.)
• Also involved in memory, cognition and emotion.
• Controls extrapyramidal motor tract.
◉ Corpus callosum. Answer: Allows for communication between the
right and left hemispheres of the brain?
◉ 6 Key aspects involved in providing cultural competent health
care?. Answer: 1 Awareness and acceptance of cultural differences
2 Self-awareness of one's culture
,3 Understanding the dynamics of cultural differences
4 Knowledge of the client's family culture
5 Adaptation of services to support the client's culture
6 Responding to families/family members in an empathetic manner.
◉ cultural empathy. The nurse should assess?. Answer: family self-
identified ethnicity, family's degree of acculturation (languages
spoken, recent migration, Native culture, community
discriminations, etc, religious preferences or practices)
◉ Family systems 7 Basic strategies for working with?. Answer: 1.
Select appropriate system to work with
2. Providing more time to work with unacculturated families
3. Dealing with language differences
4. Taking into account families interactional norms
5. Focusing on family strengths and families' positive adaptation
6. Promoting positive change
7. Being aware of and utilizing family's support systems
◉ first attachment theorist described as "lasting psychological
connectedness between human beings?. Answer: John Bowlby
,◉ He believed early bonds formed by children with caregivers have
tremendous impact and continues throughout life?. Answer: John
Bowlby
◉ Central theme is that primary caregivers respond to infants needs
and child develops a sense of security?. Answer: Attachment theory
◉ expanded on Bowleys' original work in 1970. She described 3
major styles of attachment: secure, ambivalent-insecure, and
avoidant-insecure attachment?. Answer: Ainsworth
◉ Attachment theory stages?. Answer: 1. Pre-attachment birth - 3
months
2.Indiscriminate 6 weeks - 7 months,
3.Discriminate Attachment: 7 -11 months
4.Multiple Attachment: after 9 months
◉ Indiscriminate 6 weeks - 7 months. Answer: infants begin to show
preference for primary/secondary caregivers. Begin to feel trust that
caregivers will respond to their needs. By 7 months begin to
distinguish familiar and unfamiliar people, respond more positively
to primary caregiver?
◉ Discriminate Attachment: 7 -11 months. Answer: show a strong
attachment to specific individual, will begin to protest when
, separated from primary attachment- separation anxiety and begin to
display stranger anxiety?
◉ Primary. Answer: Prevent the occurrence of disease?
◉ Secondary. Answer: After the disease occurrence
Early detection, diagnosis, treatment of signs and symptoms?
◉ Tertiary. Answer: Recovery and rehabilitation
Maximize the level of functioning?
◉ Role of the Family Nurse-Functions-Primary prevention. Answer:
Health promotion and disease prevention
Most exciting role for the family nurse
Teach families to take responsibility for health and attain health
goals by enjoying a healthy lifestyle?Type of prevention?
◉ Role of the Family Nurse-Functions- Secondary prevention.
Answer: Conduct screening assessments
Make referrals
Determine patterns of dysfunction
Health teaching?
