NURS 5432 Family I Midterm Exam - University Of
Texas At Arlington (UTA): Questions With Solutions
What are the three foundational components of family nursing? - CORRECT
ANSWER-1. Determining how the family is defined
2. Understanding the concepts of family health
3. Knowing the current evidence about the elements of a health family
What is family? - CORRECT ANSWER-Family life is a universal human experience
and no two individuals have the exact same experience within a family. No
universally agreed-upon definition of family.
Legal Definition of Family - CORRECT ANSWER-relationships through blood ties,
adoption, guardianship or marriage
Biological Definition of Family - CORRECT ANSWER-Genetic biological networks
among and between people. Who is biologically connected to that family member?
Epidemiology, hereditary disease.
Sociological Definition of Family - CORRECT ANSWER-Groups of people living
together with or without legal or biological ties I.e Kibbutz
Psychological Definition of Family - CORRECT ANSWER-Groups with strong
emotional ties. People that want to be together are really connected emotionally so
they end up staying with each other.
The textbooks definition of family - CORRECT ANSWER-Family refers to two or
more individuals who depend on one another for emotional, physical, and economic
support. The members of the family are self-defined. Family is who they say they
are, nurses who work with families should ask clients who they consider to be
members of their family and should include those persons in health care planning
with the patient's permission.
What is family health? - CORRECT ANSWER-Family health is a dynamic, changing
state of well-being, which includes the biological, psychological, spiritual,
sociological, and cultural factors of individual family members and the family system.
- an individual's health (on wellness-to-illness contunuum) affects the entire family
-ensure you are looking at the whole perspective
What is family functioning? - CORRECT ANSWER-Difficult to describe
characteristics of a family that is well-functioning.
Otto (1963) -first scholar to develop psychosocial criteria for assessing family
strengths, and emphasized the need to focus on positive family attributes instead of
pathological approach that accentuated family problems and weaknesses.
Pratt 1976 -energized family: as one whose structure encourages and supports
individual to develop their capacities for full functioning and independent action, thus
contributing to family health.
,Curran's Traits (1985) of a Healthy Family - CORRECT ANSWER-Communicates
and Listens
Fosters table time and conversation
Affirms and supports each member
Teaches respect for others
Develops a sense of trust
Has a sense of play and humor
Has a balance of interaction among members
Shares leisure time
Abounds to rituals and traditions
Teaches a sense of right and wrong
Shares a religious core
Respects the privacy of others
Values service to others
Admits to problems and seeks help
Family Flexibility - CORRECT ANSWER-Olson and Gorall (2005) conducted a study
and found that the ability of the family to demonstrate flexibility is related to its ability
to alter family leadership roles, relationships, and rules, including control, discipline,
and role sharing. Functional, healthy families have the ability to change these factors
in response to situations.
What are the dominant patterns of family functioning? - CORRECT ANSWER-
Balanced flexibility and balance cohesion
Family Nursing Competences: Generalist - CORRECT ANSWER-1. Enhance and
promote family health
2. focus nursing practice on family's strengths, the support of family and individual
growth, the improvement of family self-management abilities, the facilitation of
successful life transitions, the improvement and management of health, and the
mobilization of family resources.
3. Demonstrate leadership and systems thinking skills to ensure the quality of
nursing care with families in everyday practice and across every content.
4. Practice using evidence-based practice
What are the four views of family through a lens? - CORRECT ANSWER-Systems
Component
Context
Client
Family as Context - CORRECT ANSWER-Family centered, family focused,
The first approach to family nursing focuses on the ax and care of an individual client
in which family is context.
Traditional nursing focus, individual is foreground, family background. The family
serves as a context for the individual as either a resource or stressor to the individual
health or illness. This approach is rooted in the speciality of maternal-child nursing
and underlies the philosophy of many maternity and peds health care settings.
,Family as Client - CORRECT ANSWER-The family nurse is interested in the way all
family members are individually affected by the health event of one family member.
In this approach, all members of the family are in the foreground. The family is seen
as the sum of individual family members, and the focus is concentrated on each
individual. The nurses assesses and provides healthcare for each person in the
family. Typically seen in the communities where Primary care Physicians, or NPs
provide care over time to all individuals in a given family.
Family as foreground, individual as background
Family as System - CORRECT ANSWER-The family as a whole as the client; here,
the family is viewed as an interactional system in which the whole is more than the
sum of its parts. In other words, the interactions between family members become
the target for the nursing interventions. The interventions flow from the ax of the
family as a whole.
Interactions between family members become the target for nursing interventions.
The interventions flow from the ax of the family as a whole. The family nursing
system approach focuses on the individual and family simultaneously. Emphasis on
interactions between family members. When something happens to to one part of
the system, the other parts of the system are affected.
Family as a Component of Society - CORRECT ANSWER-The family is viewed as
one of many institutions of society, similar to health, educational, religious, or
economic institutions. The family is a basic primary unit of society, and it is part of
the larger system of society. Family as a whole, interacts with other institutions to
receive, exchange, or give communication and services. Family social scientist first
used this approach in their studies of families in society.
Family structure - CORRECT ANSWER-The ordered set of relationships within the
family, without respect to roles and function. Doesn't indicate how healthy a family is
or how it functions. Multitude of family forms, different family types have their
strengths and limitations, which directly or indirectly affect individual and family
health.
What should the nurse identify when determining family structure? - CORRECT
ANSWER-The individual who comprise the family and the individuals in the family.
The relationships between them. The interactions between family members. The
interactions with other social systems.
Single family - CORRECT ANSWER-living alone, never married.
Nuclear dyad/childless - CORRECT ANSWER-married couple, no children
Nuclear - CORRECT ANSWER-Two generations of family, parents, and their own or
adopted children residing in the same household.
Binuclear - CORRECT ANSWER-Two post-divorce families with children as
members of both
Extended/Multigenerational - CORRECT ANSWER-Two or more adult generations
and one that include grandparents and grandchildren in the same household.
, Blended/Reconstituted - CORRECT ANSWER-One or more of the parents have
been married previously and they bring with the children from their previous
marriage.
Single parent/lone family - CORRECT ANSWER-one parent and child(ren) residing
in one household
Commune - CORRECT ANSWER-Group of men, women and children
Cohabitation (domestic partners) - CORRECT ANSWER-Unmarried couple sharing
a household who are involved in an emotional and or sexual intimate relationship
Living together apart - CORRECT ANSWER-couples share living space and may
share financial, household, or parenting responsibility even though they have no
romantic attachment to each other; this form of a structure lives in the same
household.
Living apart together - CORRECT ANSWER-two people with or without children
forgoing cohabitation entirely, preferring to keep their separate homes.
Nursing and Family structure - CORRECT ANSWER-understanding family structure
enables nurses assisting families to identify effective coping strategies for daily life
disturbances, health care crises, wellness, promotion and disease prevention.
Nurses are central for advocating and developing social policies relevant to family
health care needs.
Family Fucnction - CORRECT ANSWER-has to do with the ways families serve their
members. One way to describe the functional aspect of families is to see the unit as
made of intimate, interactive, and interdependent persons who share some values,
goals, resources, responsibilities, decisions and commitment over time.
Family function related to the larger purposes or roles of families in society at large -
CORRECT ANSWER-Prescribed social and cultural obligations and roles in family in
society. Includes the way a family reproduces offspring, interact to socialize its
young, cooperates to meet economic needs, and related to the larger society.
Family functioning - CORRECT ANSWER-The process of family life. The individual
and cooperative processes used by developing persons as to dynamically engage
one another and their diverse environment over the life course.
What are the 5 specific family functions? - CORRECT ANSWER-1. Reproductive
function of the family
2. socialization functions of the family
3. Affective functions of the family
4.Economic functions of the family
5. health care functions of the family
Texas At Arlington (UTA): Questions With Solutions
What are the three foundational components of family nursing? - CORRECT
ANSWER-1. Determining how the family is defined
2. Understanding the concepts of family health
3. Knowing the current evidence about the elements of a health family
What is family? - CORRECT ANSWER-Family life is a universal human experience
and no two individuals have the exact same experience within a family. No
universally agreed-upon definition of family.
Legal Definition of Family - CORRECT ANSWER-relationships through blood ties,
adoption, guardianship or marriage
Biological Definition of Family - CORRECT ANSWER-Genetic biological networks
among and between people. Who is biologically connected to that family member?
Epidemiology, hereditary disease.
Sociological Definition of Family - CORRECT ANSWER-Groups of people living
together with or without legal or biological ties I.e Kibbutz
Psychological Definition of Family - CORRECT ANSWER-Groups with strong
emotional ties. People that want to be together are really connected emotionally so
they end up staying with each other.
The textbooks definition of family - CORRECT ANSWER-Family refers to two or
more individuals who depend on one another for emotional, physical, and economic
support. The members of the family are self-defined. Family is who they say they
are, nurses who work with families should ask clients who they consider to be
members of their family and should include those persons in health care planning
with the patient's permission.
What is family health? - CORRECT ANSWER-Family health is a dynamic, changing
state of well-being, which includes the biological, psychological, spiritual,
sociological, and cultural factors of individual family members and the family system.
- an individual's health (on wellness-to-illness contunuum) affects the entire family
-ensure you are looking at the whole perspective
What is family functioning? - CORRECT ANSWER-Difficult to describe
characteristics of a family that is well-functioning.
Otto (1963) -first scholar to develop psychosocial criteria for assessing family
strengths, and emphasized the need to focus on positive family attributes instead of
pathological approach that accentuated family problems and weaknesses.
Pratt 1976 -energized family: as one whose structure encourages and supports
individual to develop their capacities for full functioning and independent action, thus
contributing to family health.
,Curran's Traits (1985) of a Healthy Family - CORRECT ANSWER-Communicates
and Listens
Fosters table time and conversation
Affirms and supports each member
Teaches respect for others
Develops a sense of trust
Has a sense of play and humor
Has a balance of interaction among members
Shares leisure time
Abounds to rituals and traditions
Teaches a sense of right and wrong
Shares a religious core
Respects the privacy of others
Values service to others
Admits to problems and seeks help
Family Flexibility - CORRECT ANSWER-Olson and Gorall (2005) conducted a study
and found that the ability of the family to demonstrate flexibility is related to its ability
to alter family leadership roles, relationships, and rules, including control, discipline,
and role sharing. Functional, healthy families have the ability to change these factors
in response to situations.
What are the dominant patterns of family functioning? - CORRECT ANSWER-
Balanced flexibility and balance cohesion
Family Nursing Competences: Generalist - CORRECT ANSWER-1. Enhance and
promote family health
2. focus nursing practice on family's strengths, the support of family and individual
growth, the improvement of family self-management abilities, the facilitation of
successful life transitions, the improvement and management of health, and the
mobilization of family resources.
3. Demonstrate leadership and systems thinking skills to ensure the quality of
nursing care with families in everyday practice and across every content.
4. Practice using evidence-based practice
What are the four views of family through a lens? - CORRECT ANSWER-Systems
Component
Context
Client
Family as Context - CORRECT ANSWER-Family centered, family focused,
The first approach to family nursing focuses on the ax and care of an individual client
in which family is context.
Traditional nursing focus, individual is foreground, family background. The family
serves as a context for the individual as either a resource or stressor to the individual
health or illness. This approach is rooted in the speciality of maternal-child nursing
and underlies the philosophy of many maternity and peds health care settings.
,Family as Client - CORRECT ANSWER-The family nurse is interested in the way all
family members are individually affected by the health event of one family member.
In this approach, all members of the family are in the foreground. The family is seen
as the sum of individual family members, and the focus is concentrated on each
individual. The nurses assesses and provides healthcare for each person in the
family. Typically seen in the communities where Primary care Physicians, or NPs
provide care over time to all individuals in a given family.
Family as foreground, individual as background
Family as System - CORRECT ANSWER-The family as a whole as the client; here,
the family is viewed as an interactional system in which the whole is more than the
sum of its parts. In other words, the interactions between family members become
the target for the nursing interventions. The interventions flow from the ax of the
family as a whole.
Interactions between family members become the target for nursing interventions.
The interventions flow from the ax of the family as a whole. The family nursing
system approach focuses on the individual and family simultaneously. Emphasis on
interactions between family members. When something happens to to one part of
the system, the other parts of the system are affected.
Family as a Component of Society - CORRECT ANSWER-The family is viewed as
one of many institutions of society, similar to health, educational, religious, or
economic institutions. The family is a basic primary unit of society, and it is part of
the larger system of society. Family as a whole, interacts with other institutions to
receive, exchange, or give communication and services. Family social scientist first
used this approach in their studies of families in society.
Family structure - CORRECT ANSWER-The ordered set of relationships within the
family, without respect to roles and function. Doesn't indicate how healthy a family is
or how it functions. Multitude of family forms, different family types have their
strengths and limitations, which directly or indirectly affect individual and family
health.
What should the nurse identify when determining family structure? - CORRECT
ANSWER-The individual who comprise the family and the individuals in the family.
The relationships between them. The interactions between family members. The
interactions with other social systems.
Single family - CORRECT ANSWER-living alone, never married.
Nuclear dyad/childless - CORRECT ANSWER-married couple, no children
Nuclear - CORRECT ANSWER-Two generations of family, parents, and their own or
adopted children residing in the same household.
Binuclear - CORRECT ANSWER-Two post-divorce families with children as
members of both
Extended/Multigenerational - CORRECT ANSWER-Two or more adult generations
and one that include grandparents and grandchildren in the same household.
, Blended/Reconstituted - CORRECT ANSWER-One or more of the parents have
been married previously and they bring with the children from their previous
marriage.
Single parent/lone family - CORRECT ANSWER-one parent and child(ren) residing
in one household
Commune - CORRECT ANSWER-Group of men, women and children
Cohabitation (domestic partners) - CORRECT ANSWER-Unmarried couple sharing
a household who are involved in an emotional and or sexual intimate relationship
Living together apart - CORRECT ANSWER-couples share living space and may
share financial, household, or parenting responsibility even though they have no
romantic attachment to each other; this form of a structure lives in the same
household.
Living apart together - CORRECT ANSWER-two people with or without children
forgoing cohabitation entirely, preferring to keep their separate homes.
Nursing and Family structure - CORRECT ANSWER-understanding family structure
enables nurses assisting families to identify effective coping strategies for daily life
disturbances, health care crises, wellness, promotion and disease prevention.
Nurses are central for advocating and developing social policies relevant to family
health care needs.
Family Fucnction - CORRECT ANSWER-has to do with the ways families serve their
members. One way to describe the functional aspect of families is to see the unit as
made of intimate, interactive, and interdependent persons who share some values,
goals, resources, responsibilities, decisions and commitment over time.
Family function related to the larger purposes or roles of families in society at large -
CORRECT ANSWER-Prescribed social and cultural obligations and roles in family in
society. Includes the way a family reproduces offspring, interact to socialize its
young, cooperates to meet economic needs, and related to the larger society.
Family functioning - CORRECT ANSWER-The process of family life. The individual
and cooperative processes used by developing persons as to dynamically engage
one another and their diverse environment over the life course.
What are the 5 specific family functions? - CORRECT ANSWER-1. Reproductive
function of the family
2. socialization functions of the family
3. Affective functions of the family
4.Economic functions of the family
5. health care functions of the family
