NSG 527 UPDATED EXAM SCRIPT QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS MARKED A+
✔✔Family as Sum of its Members - ✔✔The family is a sum of all family members.
Family healthcare is operational when all members of the family receive care.
✔✔Family Subsystems as Client - ✔✔The subsystem of a family can be defined as a
dyad or triad and be comprised of a married couple, parent-child, and sibling-sibling, for
example. They are the recipients of care.
✔✔Family as Client - ✔✔The entire family is in the foreground. Dynamics of the family,
subsystems, and relationships with external sources are the focus.
✔✔Family as a Component of Society - ✔✔The family is a subsystem of society.
Families are considered an institution of society equating to religion and educational
institutions for example.
✔✔Primary Prevention - ✔✔Prevent the occurrence of disease.
Health promotion and disease prevention
Teach families to take responsibility for health and attain health goals by enjoying a
healthy lifestyle
✔✔Secondary Prevention - ✔✔After the disease occurrence
Early detection, diagnosis, treatment of signs and symptoms
Conduct screening assessments
Health teaching
✔✔Tertiary Prevention - ✔✔Recovery and rehabilitation
Maximize the level of functioning
Provide support to families in the rehabilitation process
✔✔Nightingale's Environmental Model - ✔✔Did not present a theory of nursing or family
nursing
Emphasized the presence of environmental factors in health and wellness
Nurses care for the whole family unit in the home environment
✔✔King's Theory of Goal Attainment - ✔✔included family-as-context
Collaboratively the nurse and family members identify complete assessment to
determine goals and a plan of care
The family unit provides socialization and establishes norms of behavior across the life
cycle.
✔✔Roy's Adaptation Model - ✔✔Family is a unit of analysis, in the same context as the
individual
, The family unit is adaptive and interacts with the external environment and internal and
external stimuli
✔✔Neumann's Health System's Model - ✔✔The client is an open system where family
is defined. Family is comprised of subsystems with relationships among the family
members
The ability to maintain wellness when exposed to stressors occurs through a series of
exchanges in the open system of the model
Appropriate model for community-based health care
✔✔Orem's Self-Care Model - ✔✔The family unit needs to sustain self-care
Nursing works with individuals to achieve self-care in the family unit; the family unit is
not the direct receiver of the health care services.
Self-care of the family can incorporate health beliefs of the family
✔✔Rogers's Science of Unitary Human Beings - ✔✔A family has energy fields that
respond to the environment similar to individuals.
Families have stages of development and progress in one direction
Permeability of boundaries determines the degree of responsiveness required from
environmental input
✔✔Newman's Expanding Consciousness Model - ✔✔Expansion of consciousness
defines health
Individuals move unidirectionally to expand consciousness and allow this inside and
outside of the family unit; can incorporate the family with community energy fields
As the individual of a family moves towards consciousness, he/she can explain the
internal dynamics of the family.
✔✔Structural-Functional Theory - ✔✔Family as a social system
Identifies how the family interacts with other institutions of society
Identifies how family members interact with each other in family relationships and
support each other effectively to perform their functions
discipline of Sociology
✔✔Systems Theory - ✔✔The family as a set of interacting elements distinguishable
from the environment it interacts.
Views family in context of suprasystems and subsystems
Grand theory
✔✔Family Developmental Theory - ✔✔Explains the developmental changes of family
members through the years
Provides the ability to make predictions of family needs according the life cycle
Emphasis is on the traditional nuclear family
ANSWERS MARKED A+
✔✔Family as Sum of its Members - ✔✔The family is a sum of all family members.
Family healthcare is operational when all members of the family receive care.
✔✔Family Subsystems as Client - ✔✔The subsystem of a family can be defined as a
dyad or triad and be comprised of a married couple, parent-child, and sibling-sibling, for
example. They are the recipients of care.
✔✔Family as Client - ✔✔The entire family is in the foreground. Dynamics of the family,
subsystems, and relationships with external sources are the focus.
✔✔Family as a Component of Society - ✔✔The family is a subsystem of society.
Families are considered an institution of society equating to religion and educational
institutions for example.
✔✔Primary Prevention - ✔✔Prevent the occurrence of disease.
Health promotion and disease prevention
Teach families to take responsibility for health and attain health goals by enjoying a
healthy lifestyle
✔✔Secondary Prevention - ✔✔After the disease occurrence
Early detection, diagnosis, treatment of signs and symptoms
Conduct screening assessments
Health teaching
✔✔Tertiary Prevention - ✔✔Recovery and rehabilitation
Maximize the level of functioning
Provide support to families in the rehabilitation process
✔✔Nightingale's Environmental Model - ✔✔Did not present a theory of nursing or family
nursing
Emphasized the presence of environmental factors in health and wellness
Nurses care for the whole family unit in the home environment
✔✔King's Theory of Goal Attainment - ✔✔included family-as-context
Collaboratively the nurse and family members identify complete assessment to
determine goals and a plan of care
The family unit provides socialization and establishes norms of behavior across the life
cycle.
✔✔Roy's Adaptation Model - ✔✔Family is a unit of analysis, in the same context as the
individual
, The family unit is adaptive and interacts with the external environment and internal and
external stimuli
✔✔Neumann's Health System's Model - ✔✔The client is an open system where family
is defined. Family is comprised of subsystems with relationships among the family
members
The ability to maintain wellness when exposed to stressors occurs through a series of
exchanges in the open system of the model
Appropriate model for community-based health care
✔✔Orem's Self-Care Model - ✔✔The family unit needs to sustain self-care
Nursing works with individuals to achieve self-care in the family unit; the family unit is
not the direct receiver of the health care services.
Self-care of the family can incorporate health beliefs of the family
✔✔Rogers's Science of Unitary Human Beings - ✔✔A family has energy fields that
respond to the environment similar to individuals.
Families have stages of development and progress in one direction
Permeability of boundaries determines the degree of responsiveness required from
environmental input
✔✔Newman's Expanding Consciousness Model - ✔✔Expansion of consciousness
defines health
Individuals move unidirectionally to expand consciousness and allow this inside and
outside of the family unit; can incorporate the family with community energy fields
As the individual of a family moves towards consciousness, he/she can explain the
internal dynamics of the family.
✔✔Structural-Functional Theory - ✔✔Family as a social system
Identifies how the family interacts with other institutions of society
Identifies how family members interact with each other in family relationships and
support each other effectively to perform their functions
discipline of Sociology
✔✔Systems Theory - ✔✔The family as a set of interacting elements distinguishable
from the environment it interacts.
Views family in context of suprasystems and subsystems
Grand theory
✔✔Family Developmental Theory - ✔✔Explains the developmental changes of family
members through the years
Provides the ability to make predictions of family needs according the life cycle
Emphasis is on the traditional nuclear family
