N480 EXAM 1 | FROM QUESTION TO PERFECTION| STUDY
WITH CONFIDENCE!
Course Code:
Course Title:
Programme:
Academic Year: 2026/2027.
Duration: 2 Hours.
Total Marks: 100.
Candidate Instructions:
1) Write your Registration Number on every answer booklet used.
2) Answer ALL questions in Section A and ANY TWO (2) questions in Section B.
3) Read each question carefully before answering.
4) Begin each question on a new page.
5) The marks for each question are indicated in brackets.
6) This paper consists of several printed pages, including this page.
7) Ensure your copy is complete before the examination begins.
8) Unauthorized materials and communication with other candidates are not permitted.
Turn Over.
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, What is the 1953 definition of family? Answer: The family is a group of persons united by ties
of marriage, blood, or adoption, constituting a single household, interacting and communicating
with each other in their respective social roles of husband and wife, mother and father, son and
daughter, brother and sister, and creating and maintaining a common culture.
What is the modern definition of family health? Answer: Family health is a dynamic state of
well-being that includes biological, physiological, psychological, spiritual, sociological, and
cultural factors of men individuals within the whole family system.
What is the more modern definition of family? Answer: Family refers to two or more
individuals who depend on one another for emotional, physical, and economical support. The
members of the family are self-defined.
What considerations go into the definition of a family? Answer: legal, biological, sociological,
and psychological.
What is the basic unit of society? Answer: Family.
What is an important consideration when describing the changing relationship of individuals and
families in nursing care? Answer: The traditional roles of patients were to defer To the authority
of the healthcare worker, and you only answer questions when asked. Now, patients are partners
in health and illness care. We answer their questions.
What's a shorter way of describing a healthy family? Answer: Nurturing and caring that
members offer each other
What are the levels of family care? Answer: Family nursing spans across individual care family
care and societal care.
Family nursing is seeing conceptually as a combination of what? Answer: Theories and
strategies from nursing, family therapy, and family social science. Family focused clinical care
is the priority, however.
What is the nature of family nursing inventions? In other words, what are some of the nurses
considerations? Answer: experiences over time
Community and cultural context
relationships
Health and illness of individuals within the family
interaction between individual and family
Family influences over health and illness
manipulation of the environment
changing focus across family members
APPHIA – Crafted with Care and Precision for Academic Excellence.
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WITH CONFIDENCE!
Course Code:
Course Title:
Programme:
Academic Year: 2026/2027.
Duration: 2 Hours.
Total Marks: 100.
Candidate Instructions:
1) Write your Registration Number on every answer booklet used.
2) Answer ALL questions in Section A and ANY TWO (2) questions in Section B.
3) Read each question carefully before answering.
4) Begin each question on a new page.
5) The marks for each question are indicated in brackets.
6) This paper consists of several printed pages, including this page.
7) Ensure your copy is complete before the examination begins.
8) Unauthorized materials and communication with other candidates are not permitted.
Turn Over.
APPHIA – Crafted with Care and Precision for Academic Excellence.
1
, What is the 1953 definition of family? Answer: The family is a group of persons united by ties
of marriage, blood, or adoption, constituting a single household, interacting and communicating
with each other in their respective social roles of husband and wife, mother and father, son and
daughter, brother and sister, and creating and maintaining a common culture.
What is the modern definition of family health? Answer: Family health is a dynamic state of
well-being that includes biological, physiological, psychological, spiritual, sociological, and
cultural factors of men individuals within the whole family system.
What is the more modern definition of family? Answer: Family refers to two or more
individuals who depend on one another for emotional, physical, and economical support. The
members of the family are self-defined.
What considerations go into the definition of a family? Answer: legal, biological, sociological,
and psychological.
What is the basic unit of society? Answer: Family.
What is an important consideration when describing the changing relationship of individuals and
families in nursing care? Answer: The traditional roles of patients were to defer To the authority
of the healthcare worker, and you only answer questions when asked. Now, patients are partners
in health and illness care. We answer their questions.
What's a shorter way of describing a healthy family? Answer: Nurturing and caring that
members offer each other
What are the levels of family care? Answer: Family nursing spans across individual care family
care and societal care.
Family nursing is seeing conceptually as a combination of what? Answer: Theories and
strategies from nursing, family therapy, and family social science. Family focused clinical care
is the priority, however.
What is the nature of family nursing inventions? In other words, what are some of the nurses
considerations? Answer: experiences over time
Community and cultural context
relationships
Health and illness of individuals within the family
interaction between individual and family
Family influences over health and illness
manipulation of the environment
changing focus across family members
APPHIA – Crafted with Care and Precision for Academic Excellence.
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