NSG 527 Final Exam - Questions with Correct
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60 questions with answers
Topic: NSG 527 Final Exam
1. What is the purpose of family psychoeducation?
Answer: - Helps improve knowledge base of any type of illness - Provides information about
recovery stages - Empowers problem-solving skills within the family
2. What does family psychoeducation NOT do?
Answer: Does not advocate for any vocational rehab
3. How does family meet the needs of society?
Answer: Helps mediate between society expectations and personal needs of the individual
client
4. How does the family meet the needs of its members?
Answer: Facilitates ongoing development of the personality of each individual
5. Who is affected by a member of a family having issues/illness?
Answer: The whole family
6. How can the advanced practice nurse positively impact the family when treating a
member of the family with an illness?
Answer: - Help promote healthy ways - Identify other health issues other family members
have
7. What are some major differences in gay and lesbian families?
Answer: - Developmental stages can differ - No one uniform family structure - Increase in
stigma
8. What is the significant difference between the 5 types of family nursing practice?
Answer: The conceptualization of the family
9. What are the three levels of prevention?
Answer: 1. Primary 2. Secondary 3. Tertiary
10. What is primary prevention?
Answer: Health promotion and disease prevention
11. What is secondary prevention?
Answer: Early detection and treatment
12. What is tertiary prevention?
Answer: Managing chronic illness, rehabilitation and convalescence
13. In what two specific areas does the American Nurses Association incorporate the
family as a client?
Answer: 1. Community health nursing 2. Pediatric nursing
14. Who believed that the family is the basic conditioning unit?
Answer: Dorothy Orem
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, 15. Who believed in clean air, environmental factors, and home health nursing?
Answer: Florence Nightingale
16. What is stress theory?
Answer: Emphasizes a family's response to/ how they manage a crisis, including resources
they possess and those that are available to them, as well as their own perception of the
crisis/situation
17. What is the developmental approach?
Answer: The family's progression through different stages of tasks or issues through the
lifecycle
18. What is the structural-functional approach?
Answer: A holistic, comprehensive approach that incorporates not only the family, but their
inner and outer environments/universe
19. What is the family lifecycle career?
Answer: Successive areas of stages of experiences of a family as a unit
20. What is a system?
Answer: A unit with distinct parts; a family
21. What is an open family system?
Answer: Involves more open boundaries and greater energy use. Family differentiation does
not occur if the system divides into smaller units
22. What is system theory?
Answer: Discusses self-regulation and balance
23. What is synonymous with balance?
Answer: Homeostasis, steady state, and equilibrium
24. What is a family system?
Answer: An open social system that is organized and has a specific purpose. It is not a
dynamic system that has little area for change
25. What is a closed family system?
Answer: Involves greater control and structure. Rigid, stagnated, and view change as
threatening. View outsiders as not helpful or good.
26. What is a random family system?
Answer: Sets their own rules and schedules
27. What is ambivalent attachment?
Answer: Fear of abandonment, need constant reassurance, constantly checking to see if
their caregiver is around, and do not like to be separated
28. What is disorganized attachment?
Answer: A lot of emotional trauma as a child, lived in chronic fear, abused or severely
neglected. Might end up dating someone who is abusive or end up the abuser
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Answers (Verified Update)
60 questions with answers
Topic: NSG 527 Final Exam
1. What is the purpose of family psychoeducation?
Answer: - Helps improve knowledge base of any type of illness - Provides information about
recovery stages - Empowers problem-solving skills within the family
2. What does family psychoeducation NOT do?
Answer: Does not advocate for any vocational rehab
3. How does family meet the needs of society?
Answer: Helps mediate between society expectations and personal needs of the individual
client
4. How does the family meet the needs of its members?
Answer: Facilitates ongoing development of the personality of each individual
5. Who is affected by a member of a family having issues/illness?
Answer: The whole family
6. How can the advanced practice nurse positively impact the family when treating a
member of the family with an illness?
Answer: - Help promote healthy ways - Identify other health issues other family members
have
7. What are some major differences in gay and lesbian families?
Answer: - Developmental stages can differ - No one uniform family structure - Increase in
stigma
8. What is the significant difference between the 5 types of family nursing practice?
Answer: The conceptualization of the family
9. What are the three levels of prevention?
Answer: 1. Primary 2. Secondary 3. Tertiary
10. What is primary prevention?
Answer: Health promotion and disease prevention
11. What is secondary prevention?
Answer: Early detection and treatment
12. What is tertiary prevention?
Answer: Managing chronic illness, rehabilitation and convalescence
13. In what two specific areas does the American Nurses Association incorporate the
family as a client?
Answer: 1. Community health nursing 2. Pediatric nursing
14. Who believed that the family is the basic conditioning unit?
Answer: Dorothy Orem
Page 1
, 15. Who believed in clean air, environmental factors, and home health nursing?
Answer: Florence Nightingale
16. What is stress theory?
Answer: Emphasizes a family's response to/ how they manage a crisis, including resources
they possess and those that are available to them, as well as their own perception of the
crisis/situation
17. What is the developmental approach?
Answer: The family's progression through different stages of tasks or issues through the
lifecycle
18. What is the structural-functional approach?
Answer: A holistic, comprehensive approach that incorporates not only the family, but their
inner and outer environments/universe
19. What is the family lifecycle career?
Answer: Successive areas of stages of experiences of a family as a unit
20. What is a system?
Answer: A unit with distinct parts; a family
21. What is an open family system?
Answer: Involves more open boundaries and greater energy use. Family differentiation does
not occur if the system divides into smaller units
22. What is system theory?
Answer: Discusses self-regulation and balance
23. What is synonymous with balance?
Answer: Homeostasis, steady state, and equilibrium
24. What is a family system?
Answer: An open social system that is organized and has a specific purpose. It is not a
dynamic system that has little area for change
25. What is a closed family system?
Answer: Involves greater control and structure. Rigid, stagnated, and view change as
threatening. View outsiders as not helpful or good.
26. What is a random family system?
Answer: Sets their own rules and schedules
27. What is ambivalent attachment?
Answer: Fear of abandonment, need constant reassurance, constantly checking to see if
their caregiver is around, and do not like to be separated
28. What is disorganized attachment?
Answer: A lot of emotional trauma as a child, lived in chronic fear, abused or severely
neglected. Might end up dating someone who is abusive or end up the abuser
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