MATERNAL CHILD NURSING CARE EXAM PREP
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FULLY VERIFIED
◉ Ethnopluralism.
Answer: Diverse cultures, traditional medical model was based on
Euro-Caucasian descent, this is no longer relevant with the growing
diverse cultures in U.S. New medical model must evolve to include
consumerism, holism and diverse cultures. Also called multi-ethnic
◉ Ethnocentrism.
Answer: Belief that your culture or one culture is superior to
another, Traditional Medical Model featured belief that Euro-
Caucasian male health care system values are superior. This view
can critically compromise effective health care.
◉ Describe the nursing process in relations to the TRADITIONAL
LINEAR health wellness continuum.
Answer: Emphasis on treating the illness defined the scope of the
nurse practice: assess for signs of illness, diagnose alternations in
health, determine interventions to restore health, conceptualize a
targeted health outcome moving away from illness, evaluate
treatment plan for nurse determined modifications
,◉ Describe the shift in nursing process in relations to the health
wellness continuum.
Answer: Shared experience of transcending or controlling the health
threat and changing it into one of purposeful meaning. The nurse
patient relationship is now circular/spiral. The goal is to motivate
the patient towards promotion, maintenance and restoration of
health, prevention of illness, self-care
◉ Describe the shared connectedness between patient and nurse in
the new health promotion nursing process.
Answer: The RN should experience the illness/health threat in the
same manner that the patient perceives it. Move patient to a patient
defined state of coping, harmony, holism, spirituality (meaning)
◉ Nursing Aesthetics.
Answer: the art of nursing, low-tech, high-touch artistry of caring
that strengthens the patient's confidence in their patient to manage
the healing process, make changes or master the threatening health
event. Can be described as a transformative and spiral process.
◉ Name three nursing interventions that fall under Nursing
Aesthetics Art.
Answer: Imagery, Music Therapy and Touch
,◉ Name the 12 nursing aesthetics that strengthen confidence in
mastering a health threat.
Answer: Low tech, high tech, reflective sharing, listening, touching,
imaging, experiencing, presencing, caring, valuing, facilitating, ALL
Foundations of the RELATIONSHIP
◉ Engaging Transpersonal Care.
Answer: Nursing approach which has evolved from the simple
nursing basics of providing treatment-driven, high-technology
centered care. Opportunity for the patient and family to utilize the
nursing process in a new way. Nurse asseses the patient's confidence
to manage the health threat, diagnose's health alteration from
patient's viewpoint, conceptualizes the outcomes as the patient
envisions it, supports the patient in chosen changes and evaluates
the ongoing maintenance of health as it is lived by the patient.
◉ Name three ways that patients have changed.
Answer: Trust in providers has declined, increased consumerism,
increased accessibility of health information, family structures have
also changed
◉ Family.
Answer: A group of people sharing interpersonal bonds, tasks, and
activities
, ◉ Dyad Family.
Answer: Two cohabitating companions or spouses
◉ Nursing Process.
Answer: Developed as a framework of systematic problem solving
and actions to be used by the nurses identifying, preventing or
treatment of individual health needs. Historically the nursing
process has been problem oriented, goal directed, and involved
critical thinking. Clear differentiation between nursing diagnosis
and medical diagnosis
◉ NANDA.
Answer: North American Nursing Diagnosis Association
◉ Family Centered Care.
Answer: Placing family relationships, their coping mechanisms,
priorities and perceptions at the center of a patient's health care
needs. Nurse facilitates, does not tell family what to do, provides
education
◉ Community Health Maps.
Answer: Used to assess the health of a family by using tool to look at
family structure, function and support networks. Focus on family
health, past successes and current strengths, NOT family problems
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FULLY VERIFIED
◉ Ethnopluralism.
Answer: Diverse cultures, traditional medical model was based on
Euro-Caucasian descent, this is no longer relevant with the growing
diverse cultures in U.S. New medical model must evolve to include
consumerism, holism and diverse cultures. Also called multi-ethnic
◉ Ethnocentrism.
Answer: Belief that your culture or one culture is superior to
another, Traditional Medical Model featured belief that Euro-
Caucasian male health care system values are superior. This view
can critically compromise effective health care.
◉ Describe the nursing process in relations to the TRADITIONAL
LINEAR health wellness continuum.
Answer: Emphasis on treating the illness defined the scope of the
nurse practice: assess for signs of illness, diagnose alternations in
health, determine interventions to restore health, conceptualize a
targeted health outcome moving away from illness, evaluate
treatment plan for nurse determined modifications
,◉ Describe the shift in nursing process in relations to the health
wellness continuum.
Answer: Shared experience of transcending or controlling the health
threat and changing it into one of purposeful meaning. The nurse
patient relationship is now circular/spiral. The goal is to motivate
the patient towards promotion, maintenance and restoration of
health, prevention of illness, self-care
◉ Describe the shared connectedness between patient and nurse in
the new health promotion nursing process.
Answer: The RN should experience the illness/health threat in the
same manner that the patient perceives it. Move patient to a patient
defined state of coping, harmony, holism, spirituality (meaning)
◉ Nursing Aesthetics.
Answer: the art of nursing, low-tech, high-touch artistry of caring
that strengthens the patient's confidence in their patient to manage
the healing process, make changes or master the threatening health
event. Can be described as a transformative and spiral process.
◉ Name three nursing interventions that fall under Nursing
Aesthetics Art.
Answer: Imagery, Music Therapy and Touch
,◉ Name the 12 nursing aesthetics that strengthen confidence in
mastering a health threat.
Answer: Low tech, high tech, reflective sharing, listening, touching,
imaging, experiencing, presencing, caring, valuing, facilitating, ALL
Foundations of the RELATIONSHIP
◉ Engaging Transpersonal Care.
Answer: Nursing approach which has evolved from the simple
nursing basics of providing treatment-driven, high-technology
centered care. Opportunity for the patient and family to utilize the
nursing process in a new way. Nurse asseses the patient's confidence
to manage the health threat, diagnose's health alteration from
patient's viewpoint, conceptualizes the outcomes as the patient
envisions it, supports the patient in chosen changes and evaluates
the ongoing maintenance of health as it is lived by the patient.
◉ Name three ways that patients have changed.
Answer: Trust in providers has declined, increased consumerism,
increased accessibility of health information, family structures have
also changed
◉ Family.
Answer: A group of people sharing interpersonal bonds, tasks, and
activities
, ◉ Dyad Family.
Answer: Two cohabitating companions or spouses
◉ Nursing Process.
Answer: Developed as a framework of systematic problem solving
and actions to be used by the nurses identifying, preventing or
treatment of individual health needs. Historically the nursing
process has been problem oriented, goal directed, and involved
critical thinking. Clear differentiation between nursing diagnosis
and medical diagnosis
◉ NANDA.
Answer: North American Nursing Diagnosis Association
◉ Family Centered Care.
Answer: Placing family relationships, their coping mechanisms,
priorities and perceptions at the center of a patient's health care
needs. Nurse facilitates, does not tell family what to do, provides
education
◉ Community Health Maps.
Answer: Used to assess the health of a family by using tool to look at
family structure, function and support networks. Focus on family
health, past successes and current strengths, NOT family problems
