TEST BANK
Family-Focused Nursing Care, 1st
Edition by Sharon A. Denham
Complete Chapter Test Bank
are included (Ch 1 to 15)
** Immediate Download
** Swift Response
** All Chapters included
,Table of Contents are given below
1. Health Care Needs for the 21st Century
2. Moving to Family-Focused Care
3. Thinking Family to Guide Nursing Actions
4. Communication With and About Families
5. Family Assessment
6. Cultural and Diversity Aspects of Health and Illness Care Needs
7. Using Family Theory to Guide Nursing Practice
8. Developing a Family-Focused Nursing Practice
9. Family and Nurse Presence in Family-Focused Care
10. Family-Focused Care in Acute Settings
11. Family-Focused Care and Chronic Illness
12. Family-Focused Care to Meet Population Needs
13. “Doing For” Versus “Being With”
14. Family-Focused Nursing Actions
15. Teaching Family Members Supportive Care
,Chapter 15- Teaching Family Members Supportive Care
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Which of the following statements is inaccurate regarding social support for a family?
1. A nurse’s educational support is often needed to provide a family with necessary
informational support to manage the symptoms of an illness.
2. A family may need instrumental support as they begin to care for a family member with a
limited mobility in their home.
3. A family may need assistance to provide emotional support when a family member is
hospitalized with an acute illness.
4. A chronically ill individual must learn to not rely on a family for social support.
ANS: 4
Feedback
1 Families often need education and information to manage an illness. A nurse is in
prime position to offer this support.
2 Families need mechanical devices or home resources as they begin to care for a family
member with a limited mobility in their home.
3 Hospitalization with an acute illness can often trigger family anxiety, fear, stress, and
uncertainty . The family needs emotional support to manage these emotions
4 A chronically ill individual must learn to not rely on a family for social support.
PTS: 1
KEY: Content Area: Nursing care and supportive actions | Integrated Process: Nursing Process |
Client Need: Safe and Effective Care Environment | Cognitive Level: Comprehension | Question Type:
Multiple Choice
2. Family support needs during an illness experience often require a nurse to:
1. Provide instructions that help the family understand the demands of an illness.
2. Develop a friendship with the family to provide continuity of care.
3. Resolve conflict by accentuating the individual family differences.
4. Make moral judgments of the family’s actions.
ANS: 1
Feedback
1 Providing instructions that help the family understand the demands of an illness is
important to family-focused nursing care.
2 The nurse develops a trusting therapeutic relationship, rather than a friend role.
3 Identifying and understanding the individual family differences will move toward
resolution of conflict, rather than emphasizing the differences.
4 A family-focused nurse avoids making moral judgments of the family’s actions, and
rather strives to understand the actions.
PTS: 1
KEY: Content Area: Nursing care and supportive actions | Integrated Process: Nursing Process |
Client Need: Safe and Effective Care Environment | Cognitive Level: Comprehension | Question Type:
Multiple Choice
, 3. A nurse aims to provide social support for a family to influence which of the following family
outcomes?
1. Improved family health
2. Increased powerlessness in family members
3. Increased anxiety and depression in family member
4. Decreased problem solving in family members
ANS: 1
Feedback
1 Improving family health is a goal of social support
2 Increasing empowerment, rather than powerlessness, in family members is a goal of
social support.
3 Decreasing anxiety and depression in family member is a goal of social support.
4 Increasing problem solving in family members is a goal of social support.
PTS: 1
KEY: Content Area: Nursing care and supportive actions | Integrated Process: Nursing Process |
Client Need: Safe and Effective Care Environment | Cognitive Level: Comprehension | Question Type:
Multiple Choice
4. Which of the following can be viewed as an accurate statement regarding the nurse-family
communication related to support?
1. A nurse begins an assessment of needs by asking the family what types of support are
needed.
2. Developing a trusting relationship with the family may help the nurse and family identify
the types of support needed with discharge.
3. The nurse is usually the best judge of the types of support needed in the home.
4. A nurse focuses support on the ill family member, since the family most often has access
to support.
ANS: 2
Feedback
1 Families often do not know the support they need; therefore, beginning the assessment
with this approach may not provide the nurse with needed information.
2 Developing a trusting relationship with the family helps the nurse and family identify
the types of support needed with discharge.
3 The family knows their home, family members, and context, so they may be the best
source of knowledge related to the types of support needed in the home.
4 A nurse focuses support on both the ill family member and the family to provide the
best outcomes. At times, the family needs support as well as the ill family member.
PTS: 1
KEY: Content Area: Nursing care and supportive actions | Integrated Process: Nursing Process |
Client Need: Safe and Effective Care Environment | Cognitive Level: Comprehension | Question Type:
Multiple Choice
5. A nurse is preparing discharge instructions for a patient who has been hospitalized with renal failure
from diabetes. The patient’s family plans to support the patient following discharge. Which of the
following are likely sources of support for a family?
1. The nurse discharging the patient
2. The patient and family’s work colleagues
Family-Focused Nursing Care, 1st
Edition by Sharon A. Denham
Complete Chapter Test Bank
are included (Ch 1 to 15)
** Immediate Download
** Swift Response
** All Chapters included
,Table of Contents are given below
1. Health Care Needs for the 21st Century
2. Moving to Family-Focused Care
3. Thinking Family to Guide Nursing Actions
4. Communication With and About Families
5. Family Assessment
6. Cultural and Diversity Aspects of Health and Illness Care Needs
7. Using Family Theory to Guide Nursing Practice
8. Developing a Family-Focused Nursing Practice
9. Family and Nurse Presence in Family-Focused Care
10. Family-Focused Care in Acute Settings
11. Family-Focused Care and Chronic Illness
12. Family-Focused Care to Meet Population Needs
13. “Doing For” Versus “Being With”
14. Family-Focused Nursing Actions
15. Teaching Family Members Supportive Care
,Chapter 15- Teaching Family Members Supportive Care
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Which of the following statements is inaccurate regarding social support for a family?
1. A nurse’s educational support is often needed to provide a family with necessary
informational support to manage the symptoms of an illness.
2. A family may need instrumental support as they begin to care for a family member with a
limited mobility in their home.
3. A family may need assistance to provide emotional support when a family member is
hospitalized with an acute illness.
4. A chronically ill individual must learn to not rely on a family for social support.
ANS: 4
Feedback
1 Families often need education and information to manage an illness. A nurse is in
prime position to offer this support.
2 Families need mechanical devices or home resources as they begin to care for a family
member with a limited mobility in their home.
3 Hospitalization with an acute illness can often trigger family anxiety, fear, stress, and
uncertainty . The family needs emotional support to manage these emotions
4 A chronically ill individual must learn to not rely on a family for social support.
PTS: 1
KEY: Content Area: Nursing care and supportive actions | Integrated Process: Nursing Process |
Client Need: Safe and Effective Care Environment | Cognitive Level: Comprehension | Question Type:
Multiple Choice
2. Family support needs during an illness experience often require a nurse to:
1. Provide instructions that help the family understand the demands of an illness.
2. Develop a friendship with the family to provide continuity of care.
3. Resolve conflict by accentuating the individual family differences.
4. Make moral judgments of the family’s actions.
ANS: 1
Feedback
1 Providing instructions that help the family understand the demands of an illness is
important to family-focused nursing care.
2 The nurse develops a trusting therapeutic relationship, rather than a friend role.
3 Identifying and understanding the individual family differences will move toward
resolution of conflict, rather than emphasizing the differences.
4 A family-focused nurse avoids making moral judgments of the family’s actions, and
rather strives to understand the actions.
PTS: 1
KEY: Content Area: Nursing care and supportive actions | Integrated Process: Nursing Process |
Client Need: Safe and Effective Care Environment | Cognitive Level: Comprehension | Question Type:
Multiple Choice
, 3. A nurse aims to provide social support for a family to influence which of the following family
outcomes?
1. Improved family health
2. Increased powerlessness in family members
3. Increased anxiety and depression in family member
4. Decreased problem solving in family members
ANS: 1
Feedback
1 Improving family health is a goal of social support
2 Increasing empowerment, rather than powerlessness, in family members is a goal of
social support.
3 Decreasing anxiety and depression in family member is a goal of social support.
4 Increasing problem solving in family members is a goal of social support.
PTS: 1
KEY: Content Area: Nursing care and supportive actions | Integrated Process: Nursing Process |
Client Need: Safe and Effective Care Environment | Cognitive Level: Comprehension | Question Type:
Multiple Choice
4. Which of the following can be viewed as an accurate statement regarding the nurse-family
communication related to support?
1. A nurse begins an assessment of needs by asking the family what types of support are
needed.
2. Developing a trusting relationship with the family may help the nurse and family identify
the types of support needed with discharge.
3. The nurse is usually the best judge of the types of support needed in the home.
4. A nurse focuses support on the ill family member, since the family most often has access
to support.
ANS: 2
Feedback
1 Families often do not know the support they need; therefore, beginning the assessment
with this approach may not provide the nurse with needed information.
2 Developing a trusting relationship with the family helps the nurse and family identify
the types of support needed with discharge.
3 The family knows their home, family members, and context, so they may be the best
source of knowledge related to the types of support needed in the home.
4 A nurse focuses support on both the ill family member and the family to provide the
best outcomes. At times, the family needs support as well as the ill family member.
PTS: 1
KEY: Content Area: Nursing care and supportive actions | Integrated Process: Nursing Process |
Client Need: Safe and Effective Care Environment | Cognitive Level: Comprehension | Question Type:
Multiple Choice
5. A nurse is preparing discharge instructions for a patient who has been hospitalized with renal failure
from diabetes. The patient’s family plans to support the patient following discharge. Which of the
following are likely sources of support for a family?
1. The nurse discharging the patient
2. The patient and family’s work colleagues
