Family Nursing Midterm 2024
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 an ill family member with the greatest chance for recovery.
4. The nurse and family together define the family and where therapeutic energy should be
placed.
4. The nurse and family together define the family and where therapeutic energy should be
placed.
The intervention that “family nurses must define with the family which persons constitute the
family and where they will place their therapeutic energies” is an intervention 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. Reconstituted
4. Reconstituted
A reconstituted or blended 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.
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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
1. Members of a family are self-defined.
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
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
,3. Family as context
The first approach to family nursing care focuses on the assessment and care of an individual
client in which the family is the context. This is the traditional nursing focus, in which the
individual is foreground and the family is background. The family serves as context for the
individual as either a resource or a stressor to the individual’s health and illness.
5. During a home visit the nurse teaches the client and family about actions to reduce the
spread of infection between the family members. Which role is the nurse implementing?
1. Counselor
2. Care deliverer
3. Health teacher
4. Family advocate
3. Health teacher
The family nurse teaches about family wellness, illness, relations, and parenting.
6. The nurse stays with a client who is having chemotherapy for the first time until the family
arrives. Which role is the nurse implementing with the client?
1. Surrogate
2. Researcher
3. Role model
4. Case manager
1. Surrogate
The family nurse serves as a surrogate by substituting for another person, such as when he or
she stays with the client until family arrives.
, 7. The spouse of a client with complex care needs is unavailable to attend a care conference at
2 p.m. What should the nurse do to support family nursing care?
1. Have the client attend in place of the spouse
2. Schedule the conference when the spouse is available
3. Ask the spouse to telephone in during the time of the conference
4. Provide the spouse with outcomes determined during the meeting
2. Schedule the conference when the spouse is available
One obstacle to family nursing practice is the hours for care. Because the spouse is not
available during the scheduled meeting, the approach to overcome this obstacle is to schedule
the meeting when the spouse can attend.
8. The nurse observes parents discussing an adolescent’s plans for the weekend and setting
boundaries to which the adolescent agrees. Which function did this family unit demonstrate?
1. Affective
2. Economic
3. Health care
4. Socialization
1. Affective
The affective function, one of the basic functions of family, is essential for creating a harmonic
and stable environment, and optimal for healthy child development and for the satisfaction of all
family members. Affective function has to do with the ways family members relate to one
another and those outside the immediate family boundaries. Well-functioning families are able to
maintain a consistent level of involvement with one another, yet at the same time not become
too involved in each other’s lives.
9. The adult daughter of an older client is expected to be at the client’s bedside yet personal
family responsibilities are not being completed. Which family interactional process is the
daughter experiencing?
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 an ill family member with the greatest chance for recovery.
4. The nurse and family together define the family and where therapeutic energy should be
placed.
4. The nurse and family together define the family and where therapeutic energy should be
placed.
The intervention that “family nurses must define with the family which persons constitute the
family and where they will place their therapeutic energies” is an intervention 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. Reconstituted
4. Reconstituted
A reconstituted or blended 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.
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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
1. Members of a family are self-defined.
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
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
,3. Family as context
The first approach to family nursing care focuses on the assessment and care of an individual
client in which the family is the context. This is the traditional nursing focus, in which the
individual is foreground and the family is background. The family serves as context for the
individual as either a resource or a stressor to the individual’s health and illness.
5. During a home visit the nurse teaches the client and family about actions to reduce the
spread of infection between the family members. Which role is the nurse implementing?
1. Counselor
2. Care deliverer
3. Health teacher
4. Family advocate
3. Health teacher
The family nurse teaches about family wellness, illness, relations, and parenting.
6. The nurse stays with a client who is having chemotherapy for the first time until the family
arrives. Which role is the nurse implementing with the client?
1. Surrogate
2. Researcher
3. Role model
4. Case manager
1. Surrogate
The family nurse serves as a surrogate by substituting for another person, such as when he or
she stays with the client until family arrives.
, 7. The spouse of a client with complex care needs is unavailable to attend a care conference at
2 p.m. What should the nurse do to support family nursing care?
1. Have the client attend in place of the spouse
2. Schedule the conference when the spouse is available
3. Ask the spouse to telephone in during the time of the conference
4. Provide the spouse with outcomes determined during the meeting
2. Schedule the conference when the spouse is available
One obstacle to family nursing practice is the hours for care. Because the spouse is not
available during the scheduled meeting, the approach to overcome this obstacle is to schedule
the meeting when the spouse can attend.
8. The nurse observes parents discussing an adolescent’s plans for the weekend and setting
boundaries to which the adolescent agrees. Which function did this family unit demonstrate?
1. Affective
2. Economic
3. Health care
4. Socialization
1. Affective
The affective function, one of the basic functions of family, is essential for creating a harmonic
and stable environment, and optimal for healthy child development and for the satisfaction of all
family members. Affective function has to do with the ways family members relate to one
another and those outside the immediate family boundaries. Well-functioning families are able to
maintain a consistent level of involvement with one another, yet at the same time not become
too involved in each other’s lives.
9. The adult daughter of an older client is expected to be at the client’s bedside yet personal
family responsibilities are not being completed. Which family interactional process is the
daughter experiencing?
