FAMILY HEALTH CARE NURSING
Theory, Practice, and Research
7th EDITION
TEST BANK & NCLEX®-STYLE QUESTIONS
Questions • Answers • Exam Preparation
Melissa Robinson
Deborah Padgett Coehlo
Paul S. Smith
ISBN-13: 9781719642965
RESOURCE CONTENT
✓ Test Bank Questions & Answers
✓ NCLEX®-Style Questions
✓ Family Nursing Review
,✓ Exam Preparation
✓ Complete 19-Chapter Coverage
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Family Health Care Nursing: An Introduction
Chapter 2: Theoretical Foundations for the Nursing of Families
Chapter 3: Family Demography: Continuity and Change in North American Families
Chapter 4: Families and Health Policy: The Intersection of Family Policies, Health Disparities, and Health Care Policies
Chapter 5: Family Nursing Assessment and Intervention
Chapter 6: Environmental Health and Families
Chapter 7: Family Health Promotion
Chapter 8: Nursing Care of LGBTQ
Chapter 9: Genomics and Family Nursing Across the Life Span
Chapter 10: Families Living With Chronic Illness
Chapter 11: Families in Palliative and End-of-Life Care
Chapter 12: Trauma and Family Nursing
Chapter 13: Relational Nursing and Family Nursing in Canada
Chapter 14: Family Nursing With Childbearing Families
Chapter 15: Family Child Health Nursing
Chapter 16: Family Nursing in Acute Care Adult Settings
Chapter 17: Families and Aging
Chapter 18: Family Mental Health Nursing
Chapter 19: Families and Population Health
CHAPTER NO. 01: FAMILY HEALTH CARE NURSING: AN INTRODUCTION
Multiple Choice QAs:
1. The nurse is transferring to a care area that focuses on family nursing practice. What should the
nurse realize about this approach to care?
1. Interventions in family care address the future plans for the family.
2. Family members must be present before the implementation of family care.
3. Resources are placed to support a family member experiencing illness with the greatest
chance for recovery.
4. The nurse and family together define the family and where therapeutic energy should be
placed.
Answers:
1. The nurse is transferring to a care area that focuses on family nursing practice. What should the
nurse realize about this approach to care?
Ans: 4
Page: 9
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1. Family care is concerned with the experience of the family over time. It considers
both the history and the future of the family group.
2. The physical absence of family members does not preclude the nurse from offering
family care.
3. Family nursing is directed at families whose members are both healthy and ill
regardless of the severity of the illness in the family member.
4. The intervention that “family nurses must define with the family which persons
constitute the family and where therapeutic energy should be placed” is used by
family nurses to provide structure to working with families regardless of the
theoretical underpinning of the nursing approach. This is an enduring idea that
supports the practice of family nursing.
2. The nurse notes that a client has been previously married and participates in raising the current
spouse’s children from a previous marriage. How should the nurse document this family type?
1. Extended
2. Cohabitation
3. Nuclear dyad
4. Blended
Answers:
2. The nurse notes that a client has been previously married and participates in raising the current
spouse’s children from a previous marriage. How should the nurse document this family type?
Ans: 4
Page: 16
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1. An extended family is defined as two or more adult generations and one that includes
grandparents and grandchildren living in the same household.
2. A cohabitation family type is defined as an unmarried couple sharing a household
who are involved in an emotional and/or sexually intimate relationship.
3. A nuclear dyad is defined as a married couple with no children.
4. A blended or reconstituted family type is defined as an arrangement in which one or
more of the parents was previously married and brings children from the previous
marriage into the current marriage.
, 3. The nurse prepares an in-service program on family nursing for new graduate employees. Which
definition of family is the best one for the nurse to use?
1. Members of a family are self-defined
2. People who share strong emotional ties
3. A family is defined by blood ties, adoption, and marriage
4. A group of people who live together with or without legal or biological ties
Answers:
3. The nurse prepares an in-service program on family nursing for new graduate employees. Which
definition of family is the best one for the nurse to use?
Ans: 1
Page: 5
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1. The definition of family that is most inclusive and takes the individual family members
into consideration is that the members of a family are self-defined.
2. The definition that a family is made up of people who share strong emotional ties is a
psychological definition of a family.
3. The definition that a family is defined by blood ties, adoption, and marriage is a legal
definition of a family.
4. The definition that a family is a group of people who live together with or without legal or
biological ties is a sociological definition of a family.
4. The nurse prepares to assess a client whose family is being used as a resource. Which approach to
family nursing care is the nurse implementing?
1. Family as client
2. Family as system
3. Family as context
4. Family as component of society
Answers:
4. The nurse prepares to assess a client whose family is being used as a resource. Which approach to
family nursing care is the nurse implementing?
Ans: 3
Page: 11
Theory, Practice, and Research
7th EDITION
TEST BANK & NCLEX®-STYLE QUESTIONS
Questions • Answers • Exam Preparation
Melissa Robinson
Deborah Padgett Coehlo
Paul S. Smith
ISBN-13: 9781719642965
RESOURCE CONTENT
✓ Test Bank Questions & Answers
✓ NCLEX®-Style Questions
✓ Family Nursing Review
,✓ Exam Preparation
✓ Complete 19-Chapter Coverage
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Family Health Care Nursing: An Introduction
Chapter 2: Theoretical Foundations for the Nursing of Families
Chapter 3: Family Demography: Continuity and Change in North American Families
Chapter 4: Families and Health Policy: The Intersection of Family Policies, Health Disparities, and Health Care Policies
Chapter 5: Family Nursing Assessment and Intervention
Chapter 6: Environmental Health and Families
Chapter 7: Family Health Promotion
Chapter 8: Nursing Care of LGBTQ
Chapter 9: Genomics and Family Nursing Across the Life Span
Chapter 10: Families Living With Chronic Illness
Chapter 11: Families in Palliative and End-of-Life Care
Chapter 12: Trauma and Family Nursing
Chapter 13: Relational Nursing and Family Nursing in Canada
Chapter 14: Family Nursing With Childbearing Families
Chapter 15: Family Child Health Nursing
Chapter 16: Family Nursing in Acute Care Adult Settings
Chapter 17: Families and Aging
Chapter 18: Family Mental Health Nursing
Chapter 19: Families and Population Health
CHAPTER NO. 01: FAMILY HEALTH CARE NURSING: AN INTRODUCTION
Multiple Choice QAs:
1. The nurse is transferring to a care area that focuses on family nursing practice. What should the
nurse realize about this approach to care?
1. Interventions in family care address the future plans for the family.
2. Family members must be present before the implementation of family care.
3. Resources are placed to support a family member experiencing illness with the greatest
chance for recovery.
4. The nurse and family together define the family and where therapeutic energy should be
placed.
Answers:
1. The nurse is transferring to a care area that focuses on family nursing practice. What should the
nurse realize about this approach to care?
Ans: 4
Page: 9
, Feedback
1. Family care is concerned with the experience of the family over time. It considers
both the history and the future of the family group.
2. The physical absence of family members does not preclude the nurse from offering
family care.
3. Family nursing is directed at families whose members are both healthy and ill
regardless of the severity of the illness in the family member.
4. The intervention that “family nurses must define with the family which persons
constitute the family and where therapeutic energy should be placed” is used by
family nurses to provide structure to working with families regardless of the
theoretical underpinning of the nursing approach. This is an enduring idea that
supports the practice of family nursing.
2. The nurse notes that a client has been previously married and participates in raising the current
spouse’s children from a previous marriage. How should the nurse document this family type?
1. Extended
2. Cohabitation
3. Nuclear dyad
4. Blended
Answers:
2. The nurse notes that a client has been previously married and participates in raising the current
spouse’s children from a previous marriage. How should the nurse document this family type?
Ans: 4
Page: 16
eedback
1. An extended family is defined as two or more adult generations and one that includes
grandparents and grandchildren living in the same household.
2. A cohabitation family type is defined as an unmarried couple sharing a household
who are involved in an emotional and/or sexually intimate relationship.
3. A nuclear dyad is defined as a married couple with no children.
4. A blended or reconstituted family type is defined as an arrangement in which one or
more of the parents was previously married and brings children from the previous
marriage into the current marriage.
, 3. The nurse prepares an in-service program on family nursing for new graduate employees. Which
definition of family is the best one for the nurse to use?
1. Members of a family are self-defined
2. People who share strong emotional ties
3. A family is defined by blood ties, adoption, and marriage
4. A group of people who live together with or without legal or biological ties
Answers:
3. The nurse prepares an in-service program on family nursing for new graduate employees. Which
definition of family is the best one for the nurse to use?
Ans: 1
Page: 5
eedback
1. The definition of family that is most inclusive and takes the individual family members
into consideration is that the members of a family are self-defined.
2. The definition that a family is made up of people who share strong emotional ties is a
psychological definition of a family.
3. The definition that a family is defined by blood ties, adoption, and marriage is a legal
definition of a family.
4. The definition that a family is a group of people who live together with or without legal or
biological ties is a sociological definition of a family.
4. The nurse prepares to assess a client whose family is being used as a resource. Which approach to
family nursing care is the nurse implementing?
1. Family as client
2. Family as system
3. Family as context
4. Family as component of society
Answers:
4. The nurse prepares to assess a client whose family is being used as a resource. Which approach to
family nursing care is the nurse implementing?
Ans: 3
Page: 11
