FAMILY FOCUSED NURSING CARE ASSESSMENT UPDATED ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS
CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED A PLUS
Question:
● Family-Centered Nursing Care
Answer:
Includes: -agreed upon partnerships between families if children, nurses, and providers in which the
families and children benefit respecting cultural diversity, and incorporating cultural views in the
plan of care understanding growth and development needs of children and their families treating
children and their families as clients working with all types of families collaborating with families
regarding hospitalization, home, and community resources Allowing families to serve as experts
regarding their children's health conditions, usual behaviors in different situations, and routine needs
Question:
● Promoting Family-Centered care
Answer:
-nurses should identify strengths and weaknesses nurses should pay close attention when family
members state that a child "isn't acting right" or had any other concerns IMP=children's concerns
should be considered when providing care
Question:
● Characteristics of healthy families
Answer:
-members communicate well and listen to each other there is affirmation and support for all
members members teach respect for others there is a sense of trust Members play and share humor
together Members interact with one another there's a shared sense of responsibility there are
traditions and rituals members seek help for their problems
, Question:
● Family Theories: 1. Family systems
Answer:
-the family is viewed as a whole system, instead of individual members A change to one member
affects the entire system the system can both initiate and react to change too much or too little
change= can be DYSFUNCTIONAL
Question:
● 2. Family stress
Answer:
-describes stress as inevitable stressors can be expected (IE wedding, birth of a child) or unexpected
(IE death, illness of child, or divorce) Explains the reaction of a family to stressful events NURSE=
offer guidance for adapting to stress
Question:
● 3. Developmental
Answer:
-views family as a small group that interacts with the larger social system emphasizes similarities
and consistencies in how families develop and change Use Duvall's family life cycle stages to
describe the changes a family goes through over time How a family functions in one stage has a
direct effect on how the family will function in the next stage
Question:
● Traditional Nuclear family
Answer:
Married couple and their biological children; *only full brothers and sisters
Question:
● Nuclear Family
CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED A PLUS
Question:
● Family-Centered Nursing Care
Answer:
Includes: -agreed upon partnerships between families if children, nurses, and providers in which the
families and children benefit respecting cultural diversity, and incorporating cultural views in the
plan of care understanding growth and development needs of children and their families treating
children and their families as clients working with all types of families collaborating with families
regarding hospitalization, home, and community resources Allowing families to serve as experts
regarding their children's health conditions, usual behaviors in different situations, and routine needs
Question:
● Promoting Family-Centered care
Answer:
-nurses should identify strengths and weaknesses nurses should pay close attention when family
members state that a child "isn't acting right" or had any other concerns IMP=children's concerns
should be considered when providing care
Question:
● Characteristics of healthy families
Answer:
-members communicate well and listen to each other there is affirmation and support for all
members members teach respect for others there is a sense of trust Members play and share humor
together Members interact with one another there's a shared sense of responsibility there are
traditions and rituals members seek help for their problems
, Question:
● Family Theories: 1. Family systems
Answer:
-the family is viewed as a whole system, instead of individual members A change to one member
affects the entire system the system can both initiate and react to change too much or too little
change= can be DYSFUNCTIONAL
Question:
● 2. Family stress
Answer:
-describes stress as inevitable stressors can be expected (IE wedding, birth of a child) or unexpected
(IE death, illness of child, or divorce) Explains the reaction of a family to stressful events NURSE=
offer guidance for adapting to stress
Question:
● 3. Developmental
Answer:
-views family as a small group that interacts with the larger social system emphasizes similarities
and consistencies in how families develop and change Use Duvall's family life cycle stages to
describe the changes a family goes through over time How a family functions in one stage has a
direct effect on how the family will function in the next stage
Question:
● Traditional Nuclear family
Answer:
Married couple and their biological children; *only full brothers and sisters
Question:
● Nuclear Family
