Family Health Care Nursing: Theory, Practice, and Research Sixth Edition
by Joanna Rowe Kaakinen PhD RN, Deborah Padgett Coehlo PhD C-PNP PMHS CFLE, Rose
Steele PhD RN, Melissa Robinson PhD RN ||ALL CHAPTERS||REVISED EDITION
6th Edition
,Table of Contents
Unit 1: foundations in family health care nursing .................................................................... 3
Chapter 1: family health care nursing: an introduction .............................................................. 3
Chapter 2: theoretical foundations for the nursing of families ................................................ 14
Chapter 3: family demography: continuity and change in north american families ................ 27
Chapter 4: family policy: the intersection of family policies, health disparities, and health care
policies ...................................................................................................................................... 42
Chapter 5: family nursing assessment and intervention .......................................................... 56
Unit ii: families across the health continuum ....................................................................... 71
Chapter 6: family health promotion ......................................................................................... 71
Chapter 7: nursing care of lgbtq families .................................................................................. 87
Chapter 8: genomics and family nursing across the life span ................................................. 100
Chapter 9: families living with chronic illness ......................................................................... 115
Chapter 10: families in palliative and end-of-life care ............................................................ 130
Chapter 11: trauma and family nursing .................................................................................. 144
Unit iii: nursing care of families in clinical areas ................................................................. 161
Chapter 12: family nursing with childbearing families ........................................................... 161
Chapter 13: family child health nursing .................................................................................. 175
Chapter 14: family nursing in acute care adult settings.......................................................... 187
Chapter 15: family health in mid- and later life ...................................................................... 206
Chapter 16: family mental health nursing .............................................................................. 220
Chapter 17: families and community and public health nursing ............................................ 235
,Unit 1: foundations in family health care nursing
Chapter 1: family health care nursing: an introduction
Multiple choice:
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.
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
, 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
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
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?