FAMILY HEALTH EXAM VERIFIED A+
1. Which of the following statements is true about family nursing practice?
a. Family care is concerned with the experience of the family over time.
b. Family nursing is directed at families whose members are both healthy and ill.
c. The family nurse is responsible with the family itself for defining who is the family.
d. If family nursing practice is successful, the family members will simultaneously achieve maximum
health.
e. All of the above ✔️✔️E
1. Which of the following nursing specialties has historically focused on the quality of family health?
a. Maternity nursing
b. Pediatric nursing
c. Public health nursing
d. All of the above ✔️✔️D
1. Family health care nursing is a specialty that started near the end of the 20th century.
a. True
,b. False ✔️✔️B
1. The most appropriate time for the nurse to collaborate with a family regarding realistic and culturally
appropriate outcomes is before addressing interventions.
a. True
b. False ✔️✔️A
1. Select four traits that are common in healthy families. a. Develops suspicion amongst members
b. Exhibits a sense of shared responsibility
c. Admits to and seeks help with problems
d. Enforces participation in rituals and tradition
e. Shares leisure time
f. Updates each other through social media about daily happenings g. Maintains unchangeable rules
h. Teaches respect for others ✔️✔️B,C,E,H
1. Because more couples are waiting to get married until their late 20s, we find:
a. more children are being born out of wedlock.
b. delayed childbearing.
,c. increased number of couples cohabitating before marriage.
d. all of the above. ✔️✔️D
1. Immigration rates increased after the Immigration and Naturalization Act was amended in
1965. The impact of this increase in immigration included:
a. increased number of older adults immigrating to the United States.
b. increased number of children born in the United States who do not speak English.
c. increased diversity in cultural practices and traditions.
d. all of the above. ✔️✔️D
1. The traditional family of two parents with two biological children living in one household has declined
since the 1960s. The new family structures accepted in our society include:
a. increased numbers of adults living alone.
b. decreased numbers of single-headed households with children.
c. decreased numbers of adults living with partners outside of marriage.
d. decreased numbers of adults living with friends or relatives other than a spouse. ✔️✔️A
1. One reason there are more older adult women than men living alone is:
, a. older adult women are more likely to prefer living alone than men.
b. older adult women are more financially secure and able to live alone than men.
c. older adult women tend not to get along with their adult children, and therefore have no choice but
to live alone.
d. older adult women live longer than men, and therefore find themselves outliving their spouse or
partner and living alone. ✔️✔️D
5. One important difference between young adults today compared with young adults of previous
generations is that:
a. young adults are marrying younger today than before.
b. young adults are entering the workforce at younger ages than before.
c. young adults are spending more years, on average, living with their parents than before.
d. young adults are entering the military more than before. ✔️✔️C
5. The single mother most likely to live in poverty with her children is:
a. the mother who has never married.
b. the mother who is separated from her spouse.
c. the mother who is divorced from her spouse.
d. the mother who has lost her spouse because of death (widowhood). ✔️✔️A
1. Which of the following statements is true about family nursing practice?
a. Family care is concerned with the experience of the family over time.
b. Family nursing is directed at families whose members are both healthy and ill.
c. The family nurse is responsible with the family itself for defining who is the family.
d. If family nursing practice is successful, the family members will simultaneously achieve maximum
health.
e. All of the above ✔️✔️E
1. Which of the following nursing specialties has historically focused on the quality of family health?
a. Maternity nursing
b. Pediatric nursing
c. Public health nursing
d. All of the above ✔️✔️D
1. Family health care nursing is a specialty that started near the end of the 20th century.
a. True
,b. False ✔️✔️B
1. The most appropriate time for the nurse to collaborate with a family regarding realistic and culturally
appropriate outcomes is before addressing interventions.
a. True
b. False ✔️✔️A
1. Select four traits that are common in healthy families. a. Develops suspicion amongst members
b. Exhibits a sense of shared responsibility
c. Admits to and seeks help with problems
d. Enforces participation in rituals and tradition
e. Shares leisure time
f. Updates each other through social media about daily happenings g. Maintains unchangeable rules
h. Teaches respect for others ✔️✔️B,C,E,H
1. Because more couples are waiting to get married until their late 20s, we find:
a. more children are being born out of wedlock.
b. delayed childbearing.
,c. increased number of couples cohabitating before marriage.
d. all of the above. ✔️✔️D
1. Immigration rates increased after the Immigration and Naturalization Act was amended in
1965. The impact of this increase in immigration included:
a. increased number of older adults immigrating to the United States.
b. increased number of children born in the United States who do not speak English.
c. increased diversity in cultural practices and traditions.
d. all of the above. ✔️✔️D
1. The traditional family of two parents with two biological children living in one household has declined
since the 1960s. The new family structures accepted in our society include:
a. increased numbers of adults living alone.
b. decreased numbers of single-headed households with children.
c. decreased numbers of adults living with partners outside of marriage.
d. decreased numbers of adults living with friends or relatives other than a spouse. ✔️✔️A
1. One reason there are more older adult women than men living alone is:
, a. older adult women are more likely to prefer living alone than men.
b. older adult women are more financially secure and able to live alone than men.
c. older adult women tend not to get along with their adult children, and therefore have no choice but
to live alone.
d. older adult women live longer than men, and therefore find themselves outliving their spouse or
partner and living alone. ✔️✔️D
5. One important difference between young adults today compared with young adults of previous
generations is that:
a. young adults are marrying younger today than before.
b. young adults are entering the workforce at younger ages than before.
c. young adults are spending more years, on average, living with their parents than before.
d. young adults are entering the military more than before. ✔️✔️C
5. The single mother most likely to live in poverty with her children is:
a. the mother who has never married.
b. the mother who is separated from her spouse.
c. the mother who is divorced from her spouse.
d. the mother who has lost her spouse because of death (widowhood). ✔️✔️A
