NURSING 527 MIDTERM MOCK TEST WITH
ANSWER RATIONALES 2026
◉ Neumann's Health System's Model.
Answer: The client is an open system where family is defined. Family
is comprised of subsystems with relationships among the family
members
The ability to maintain wellness when exposed to stressors occurs
through a series of exchanges in the open system of the model
Appropriate model for community-based health care
◉ Orem's Self-Care Model.
Answer: The family unit needs to sustain self-care
Nursing works with individuals to achieve self-care in the family
unit; the family unit is not the direct receiver of the health care
services.
Self-care of the family can incorporate health beliefs of the family
◉ Rogers's Science of Unitary Human Beings.
Answer: A family has energy fields that respond to the environment
similar to individuals.
Families have stages of development and progress in one direction
,Permeability of boundaries determines the degree of responsiveness
required from environmental input
◉ Newman's Expanding Consciousness Model.
Answer: Expansion of consciousness defines health
Individuals move unidirectionally to expand consciousness and
allow this inside and outside of the family unit; can incorporate the
family with community energy fields
As the individual of a family moves towards consciousness, he/she
can explain the internal dynamics of the family.
◉ Structural-Functional Theory.
Answer: Family as a social system
Identifies how the family interacts with other institutions of society
Identifies how family members interact with each other in family
relationships and support each other effectively to perform their
functions
discipline of Sociology
◉ Systems Theory.
Answer: The family as a set of interacting elements distinguishable
from the environment it interacts.
Views family in context of suprasystems and subsystems
Grand theory
, ◉ Family Developmental Theory.
Answer: Explains the developmental changes of family members
through the years
Provides the ability to make predictions of family needs according
the life cycle
Emphasis is on the traditional nuclear family
◉ Family Interactional Theory.
Answer: Family members assign meaning to events in their world;
this is impacted by the relevancy of the situation
The focus on internal dynamics of families
◉ Family Stress Theory.
Answer: Illness causing stress that changes family dynamics
Resources in the family for dealing with the stressor(s)
Implications/reality of the event on families and how they will adapt
◉ Change Theory.
Answer: The effect of change on the family unit and health behavior
Strong family support is predictive of success with new health
behaviors
ANSWER RATIONALES 2026
◉ Neumann's Health System's Model.
Answer: The client is an open system where family is defined. Family
is comprised of subsystems with relationships among the family
members
The ability to maintain wellness when exposed to stressors occurs
through a series of exchanges in the open system of the model
Appropriate model for community-based health care
◉ Orem's Self-Care Model.
Answer: The family unit needs to sustain self-care
Nursing works with individuals to achieve self-care in the family
unit; the family unit is not the direct receiver of the health care
services.
Self-care of the family can incorporate health beliefs of the family
◉ Rogers's Science of Unitary Human Beings.
Answer: A family has energy fields that respond to the environment
similar to individuals.
Families have stages of development and progress in one direction
,Permeability of boundaries determines the degree of responsiveness
required from environmental input
◉ Newman's Expanding Consciousness Model.
Answer: Expansion of consciousness defines health
Individuals move unidirectionally to expand consciousness and
allow this inside and outside of the family unit; can incorporate the
family with community energy fields
As the individual of a family moves towards consciousness, he/she
can explain the internal dynamics of the family.
◉ Structural-Functional Theory.
Answer: Family as a social system
Identifies how the family interacts with other institutions of society
Identifies how family members interact with each other in family
relationships and support each other effectively to perform their
functions
discipline of Sociology
◉ Systems Theory.
Answer: The family as a set of interacting elements distinguishable
from the environment it interacts.
Views family in context of suprasystems and subsystems
Grand theory
, ◉ Family Developmental Theory.
Answer: Explains the developmental changes of family members
through the years
Provides the ability to make predictions of family needs according
the life cycle
Emphasis is on the traditional nuclear family
◉ Family Interactional Theory.
Answer: Family members assign meaning to events in their world;
this is impacted by the relevancy of the situation
The focus on internal dynamics of families
◉ Family Stress Theory.
Answer: Illness causing stress that changes family dynamics
Resources in the family for dealing with the stressor(s)
Implications/reality of the event on families and how they will adapt
◉ Change Theory.
Answer: The effect of change on the family unit and health behavior
Strong family support is predictive of success with new health
behaviors
