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1. The nurse reviews assessment data before creating a family
plan of care. Which definition of family health promotion should
the nurse keep in mind when selecting interventions for this
family?
1. Having resources to pay for medical bills
2. Living in a location where health resources are readily
available
3. Planning for retirement and achieving a quality and dignified
death
4. Improving or maintaining the physical, social, emotional, and
spiritual well-being of the family
4. Improving or maintaining the physical, social, emotional,
and spiritual well-being of the family
Family health promotion has been defined as the process by
which families work to improve or maintain the physical, social,
emotional, and spiritual well-being of the family unit and its
members.
2. The nurse is assessing the rituals that a family follows. Which
definition of a family ritual should the nurse use when
identifying these activities?
1. Process of family members learning to do things together
,2. Repetitive pattern of formal behavior around a specific event
that is repeated
3. Process of getting the family members back together after a
conflict
4. Action that the family takes to keep the family heritage and
history
2. Repetitive pattern of formal behavior around a specific
event that is repeated
Family ritual is a repetitive pattern of prescribed formal
behavior pertaining to some specific event, occasion, or situation
that tends to be repeated over and over again.
3. The nurse prepares information about internal and external
influencers of family health. Which should the nurse use as an
example of an external influencer?
1. Child care
2. Marital dyad
3. Chronic illness
4. Sibling subsystems
1. Child care
The external factors are divided into societal and community-
level factors. The community level is the configuration of social
spheres that contribute to child health. These social spheres
include day-care institutions.
,4. A health care system is planning to implement telehealth in all
facilities. Which outcome should the nurse expect when this
approach to care is fully implemented?
1. Reduced incidences of chronic disease development
2. Improved health care access, quality, and efficiency
3. Decreased time for diagnosing health problems
4. Elimination of the need for face-to-face interactions with care
providers
2. Improved health care access, quality, and efficiency
Telehealth has the potential to improve health care access,
quality, and efficiency.
5. Which factor(s) should the nurse identify as influencing the
promotion of a family’s health? Select all that apply.
1. Being a role model
2. Teaching self-care behavior
3. Supporting family member during illness
4. Focusing primarily on younger family members
5. Providing care for members across the life course
1. Being a role model
Families are primarily responsible for being a role model for
health teaching and care.
2. Teaching self-care behavior
, Families are primarily responsible for teaching self-care and
wellness behavior.
3. Supporting family member during illness
Families are primarily responsible for supporting each other
during illness.
5. Providing care for members across the life course
Families are primarily responsible for providing care for
members across their life course.
6. The nurse reviews the Healthy People 2020 guidelines before
preparing an educational seminar on healthy families for a
community health fair. Which Healthy People 2020 goal should
the nurse include in this presentation? Select all that apply.
1. Prevent substance abuse
2. Eliminate health disparities
3. Prevent diseases and disorders
4. Provide universal medical insurance for all
5. Increase the quality and years of a healthy life
2. Eliminate health disparities
One goal of Healthy People 2020 is to eliminate health
disparities.
5. Increase the quality and years of a healthy life
One goal of Healthy People 2020 is to increase the quality and
years of life.