NSG 527/ NSG527 FINAL EXAM: (NEW 2025/
2026 UPDATE) | QUESTIONS & ANSWERS |
GRADE A | 100% CORRECT (VERIFIED
SOLUTIONS) – CHAMBERLAIN
What is the purpose of family psychoeducation?
- - Helps improve knowledge base of any type of illness
- Provides information about recovery stages
- Empowers problem-solving skills within the family
What does family psychoeducation NOT do? - Does not advocate for any vocational rehab
How does family meet the needs of society? - Helps mediate between society expectations
and personal needs of the individual client
How does the family meet the needs of its members? - Facilitates ongoing development of
the personality of each individual
Who is affected by a member of a family having issues/illness? - The whole family
How can the advanced practice nurse positively impact the family when treating a member of the
family with an illness? - - Help promote healthy ways
- Identify other health issues other family members have
What are some major differences in gay and lesbian families? - - Developmental stages can
differ
- No one uniform family structure
- Increase in stigma
What is the significant difference between the 5 types of family nursing practice? - The
conceptualization of the family
What are the three levels of prevention? - 1. Primary
2. Secondary
3. Tertiary
What is primary prevention? - Health promotion and disease prevention
, What is secondary prevention? - Early detection and treatment
What is tertiary prevention? - Managing chronic illness, rehabilitation and convalescence
In what two specific areas does the American Nurses Association incorporate the family as a
client? - 1. Community health nursing
2. Pediatric nursing
Who believed that the family is the basic conditioning unit? - Dorothy Orem
Who believed in clean air, environmental factors, and home health nursing? - Florence
Nightingale
What is stress theory? - 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
What is the developmental approach? - The family's progression through different stages of
tasks or issues through the lifecycle
What is the structural-functional approach? - A holistic, comprehensive approach that
incorporates not only the family, but their inner and outer environments/universe
What is the family lifecycle career? - Successive areas of stages of experiences of a family as
a unit
What is a system? - A unit with distinct parts; a family
What is an open family system? - Involves more open boundaries and greater energy use.
Family differentiation does not occur if the system divides into smaller units
What is system theory? - Discusses self-regulation and balance
What is synonymous with balance? - Homeostasis, steady state, and equilibrium
What is a family system? - An open social system that is organized and has a specific
purpose.
It is not a dynamic system that has little area for change
What is a closed family system? - Involves greater control and structure. Rigid, stagnated,
and view change as threatening. View outsiders as not helpful or good.
What is a random family system? - Sets their own rules and schedules
2026 UPDATE) | QUESTIONS & ANSWERS |
GRADE A | 100% CORRECT (VERIFIED
SOLUTIONS) – CHAMBERLAIN
What is the purpose of family psychoeducation?
- - Helps improve knowledge base of any type of illness
- Provides information about recovery stages
- Empowers problem-solving skills within the family
What does family psychoeducation NOT do? - Does not advocate for any vocational rehab
How does family meet the needs of society? - Helps mediate between society expectations
and personal needs of the individual client
How does the family meet the needs of its members? - Facilitates ongoing development of
the personality of each individual
Who is affected by a member of a family having issues/illness? - The whole family
How can the advanced practice nurse positively impact the family when treating a member of the
family with an illness? - - Help promote healthy ways
- Identify other health issues other family members have
What are some major differences in gay and lesbian families? - - Developmental stages can
differ
- No one uniform family structure
- Increase in stigma
What is the significant difference between the 5 types of family nursing practice? - The
conceptualization of the family
What are the three levels of prevention? - 1. Primary
2. Secondary
3. Tertiary
What is primary prevention? - Health promotion and disease prevention
, What is secondary prevention? - Early detection and treatment
What is tertiary prevention? - Managing chronic illness, rehabilitation and convalescence
In what two specific areas does the American Nurses Association incorporate the family as a
client? - 1. Community health nursing
2. Pediatric nursing
Who believed that the family is the basic conditioning unit? - Dorothy Orem
Who believed in clean air, environmental factors, and home health nursing? - Florence
Nightingale
What is stress theory? - 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
What is the developmental approach? - The family's progression through different stages of
tasks or issues through the lifecycle
What is the structural-functional approach? - A holistic, comprehensive approach that
incorporates not only the family, but their inner and outer environments/universe
What is the family lifecycle career? - Successive areas of stages of experiences of a family as
a unit
What is a system? - A unit with distinct parts; a family
What is an open family system? - Involves more open boundaries and greater energy use.
Family differentiation does not occur if the system divides into smaller units
What is system theory? - Discusses self-regulation and balance
What is synonymous with balance? - Homeostasis, steady state, and equilibrium
What is a family system? - An open social system that is organized and has a specific
purpose.
It is not a dynamic system that has little area for change
What is a closed family system? - Involves greater control and structure. Rigid, stagnated,
and view change as threatening. View outsiders as not helpful or good.
What is a random family system? - Sets their own rules and schedules
