Transitions Exam 1 questions n
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1. Describe the four types of transitions identified by Dr. Melies. - correct answer ✔✔ •
Developmental: becoming a parent (mother and father) during pregnancy, birth and up to 18
months. Women going through menopause. Changes in physical image?
• Situational: Nursing career change (nurse to administrator role), elderly family member from
home to nursing facility, widowhood, becoming a caregiver, immigration, and homelessness.
• Health-illness: From ventilator to not using one, hospital to rehab center or home care, psych
hospital to community.
• Organizational: changes in nursing technology, protocol
• *Note: these can overlap and happen discreetly while also having a ripple effect.
Discuss the application of this theory to nursing practice, including therapeutic nursing
interventions. - correct answer ✔✔ - Nurse can better understand their clients going through a
transition and better understand themselves. Nurses can better understand meanings,
expectations, knowledge/skill, environment, level of planning, and well-being during a
transition.
-Nursing interventions involve developments of new skills and knowledge (which reduces
uncertainty)
-Effective planning involves recognition of the problem, issues, and needs that may arise
(everything I add is from the internet somewhere cuz i STILL don't have the book lol)
Identify indicators of healthy transition. - correct answer ✔✔ -Subjective well-being, role
mastery (competency in new skills and knowledge), well-being in relationships (support and
appreciation)
Define the role of nursing with patients going through a transition. Consider what resources are
available for patients and families. - correct answer ✔✔ Nursing interventions thru transition:
,1.) Assessment of Readiness (assess conditions in a given transition to get general idea of how
ready client is to go thru it) 2.) Preparation for Transition (educate to prepare client for
transition ahead) 3.) Role Supplementation (convey info/support needed so significant others in
clients life are aware of anticipated behaviors involved in transition process)
Understand contemporary maternal & child nursing (the role of professional organizations, such
as AWHONN, ACNM, SPN, IPN, NAPNAP, NANN, COINN; etc.; the role of perinatal nursing,
pediatric nursing, and advance practice nursing. - correct answer ✔✔
Understand contemporary maternal & child nursing (the role of professional organizations, such
as
AWHONN, ACNM, SPN - correct answer ✔✔ (just summarized the mission statements of these
organizations)
AWHONN: improve/promote health of women and newborns to strengthen the nursing
profession with superior advocacy, research, education and resources
ACNM: excellence in midwifery education, clinical practice, and research
SPN: advance the specialty of pediatric nursing through excellence in education, research, and
practice
NAPNAP: empower pediatric nurse practitioners thru advocacy, leadership, professional
practice, education, and research
Peri-natal nurse is someone who cares for women during pregnancy, birth, and post-partum.
They also care for infants and families at the beginning of pregnancy and thru the first month of
infant's life
,Pediatric nursing is care of neonates and children up to adolescence
Understand contemporary maternal & child nursing (the role of professional organizations, such
as
IPN, NAPNAP, NANN, COINN - correct answer ✔✔ IPN,
NAPNAP,
NANN,
COINN
Understand contemporary maternal & child nursing (the role of professional organizations, such
as
the role of perinatal nursing, pediatric nursing, and advance practice nursing. - correct answer
✔✔ perinatal nursing,
pediatric nursing
advance practice nursing.
Describe Family Centered Care. - correct answer ✔✔ The process of providing for the health
care needs of families that are within the scope of nursing practice. This nursing care can be
aimed toward the family as context, the family as a whole, the family as a system, or the family
as a component of society.
, Understand the nature of interventions in Family Nursing (Kaakinen et al. p. 9-10) - correct
answer ✔✔ a. Consider how interventions affect family over time (both in past and in future)
b. Consider community and cultural context of group and what resources are available
c. Considers the relationships between and among a family group and acknowledges that not all
family members will achieve maximum health simultaneously
d. Family care to members of family who are both ill and healthy
e. Consider the exchange between the health status of the individual and of the family unit, and
how these affect each other
f. Family system is affected by any changes within its members. Nursing care affects both the
individual and the family system.
g. Family nursing often needs manipulation of environment to increase family interactions.
Physical absence of family members does not negate the need for family care.
h. Person who is most symptomatic in a family may change over time. This requires the nurses
focus of care to change subsequently.
i. Focus on strengths of individual and the family group to promote mutual support/growth
j. Family nurse must define what family is according to the group and where they place their
therapeutic energies
Understand the stages of puberty. - correct answer ✔✔
Understand the following terms and nursing implications:
Amenorrhea
dysmenorrhea
premenstrual syndrome - correct answer ✔✔
verified answers
1. Describe the four types of transitions identified by Dr. Melies. - correct answer ✔✔ •
Developmental: becoming a parent (mother and father) during pregnancy, birth and up to 18
months. Women going through menopause. Changes in physical image?
• Situational: Nursing career change (nurse to administrator role), elderly family member from
home to nursing facility, widowhood, becoming a caregiver, immigration, and homelessness.
• Health-illness: From ventilator to not using one, hospital to rehab center or home care, psych
hospital to community.
• Organizational: changes in nursing technology, protocol
• *Note: these can overlap and happen discreetly while also having a ripple effect.
Discuss the application of this theory to nursing practice, including therapeutic nursing
interventions. - correct answer ✔✔ - Nurse can better understand their clients going through a
transition and better understand themselves. Nurses can better understand meanings,
expectations, knowledge/skill, environment, level of planning, and well-being during a
transition.
-Nursing interventions involve developments of new skills and knowledge (which reduces
uncertainty)
-Effective planning involves recognition of the problem, issues, and needs that may arise
(everything I add is from the internet somewhere cuz i STILL don't have the book lol)
Identify indicators of healthy transition. - correct answer ✔✔ -Subjective well-being, role
mastery (competency in new skills and knowledge), well-being in relationships (support and
appreciation)
Define the role of nursing with patients going through a transition. Consider what resources are
available for patients and families. - correct answer ✔✔ Nursing interventions thru transition:
,1.) Assessment of Readiness (assess conditions in a given transition to get general idea of how
ready client is to go thru it) 2.) Preparation for Transition (educate to prepare client for
transition ahead) 3.) Role Supplementation (convey info/support needed so significant others in
clients life are aware of anticipated behaviors involved in transition process)
Understand contemporary maternal & child nursing (the role of professional organizations, such
as AWHONN, ACNM, SPN, IPN, NAPNAP, NANN, COINN; etc.; the role of perinatal nursing,
pediatric nursing, and advance practice nursing. - correct answer ✔✔
Understand contemporary maternal & child nursing (the role of professional organizations, such
as
AWHONN, ACNM, SPN - correct answer ✔✔ (just summarized the mission statements of these
organizations)
AWHONN: improve/promote health of women and newborns to strengthen the nursing
profession with superior advocacy, research, education and resources
ACNM: excellence in midwifery education, clinical practice, and research
SPN: advance the specialty of pediatric nursing through excellence in education, research, and
practice
NAPNAP: empower pediatric nurse practitioners thru advocacy, leadership, professional
practice, education, and research
Peri-natal nurse is someone who cares for women during pregnancy, birth, and post-partum.
They also care for infants and families at the beginning of pregnancy and thru the first month of
infant's life
,Pediatric nursing is care of neonates and children up to adolescence
Understand contemporary maternal & child nursing (the role of professional organizations, such
as
IPN, NAPNAP, NANN, COINN - correct answer ✔✔ IPN,
NAPNAP,
NANN,
COINN
Understand contemporary maternal & child nursing (the role of professional organizations, such
as
the role of perinatal nursing, pediatric nursing, and advance practice nursing. - correct answer
✔✔ perinatal nursing,
pediatric nursing
advance practice nursing.
Describe Family Centered Care. - correct answer ✔✔ The process of providing for the health
care needs of families that are within the scope of nursing practice. This nursing care can be
aimed toward the family as context, the family as a whole, the family as a system, or the family
as a component of society.
, Understand the nature of interventions in Family Nursing (Kaakinen et al. p. 9-10) - correct
answer ✔✔ a. Consider how interventions affect family over time (both in past and in future)
b. Consider community and cultural context of group and what resources are available
c. Considers the relationships between and among a family group and acknowledges that not all
family members will achieve maximum health simultaneously
d. Family care to members of family who are both ill and healthy
e. Consider the exchange between the health status of the individual and of the family unit, and
how these affect each other
f. Family system is affected by any changes within its members. Nursing care affects both the
individual and the family system.
g. Family nursing often needs manipulation of environment to increase family interactions.
Physical absence of family members does not negate the need for family care.
h. Person who is most symptomatic in a family may change over time. This requires the nurses
focus of care to change subsequently.
i. Focus on strengths of individual and the family group to promote mutual support/growth
j. Family nurse must define what family is according to the group and where they place their
therapeutic energies
Understand the stages of puberty. - correct answer ✔✔
Understand the following terms and nursing implications:
Amenorrhea
dysmenorrhea
premenstrual syndrome - correct answer ✔✔
