ADVANTAGE FOR MATERNAL CHILD NURSING
CARE TEST PAPER 2026 COMPLETE
RESPONSES GRADED A+
◉ Ethnopluralism. Answer: Diverse cultures, traditional medical
model was based on Euro-Caucasian descent, this is no longer
relevant with the growing diverse cultures in U.S. New medical
model must evolve to include consumerism, holism and diverse
cultures. Also called multi-ethnic
◉ Ethnocentrism. Answer: Belief that your culture or one culture is
superior to another, Traditional Medical Model featured belief that
Euro-Caucasian male health care system values are superior. This
view can critically compromise effective health care.
◉ Describe the nursing process in relations to the TRADITIONAL
LINEAR health wellness continuum. Answer: Emphasis on treating
the illness defined the scope of the nurse practice: assess for signs of
illness, diagnose alternations in health, determine interventions to
restore health, conceptualize a targeted health outcome moving
away from illness, evaluate treatment plan for nurse determined
modifications
◉ Describe the shift in nursing process in relations to the health
wellness continuum. Answer: Shared experience of transcending or
,controlling the health threat and changing it into one of purposeful
meaning. The nurse patient relationship is now circular/spiral. The
goal is to motivate the patient towards promotion, maintenance and
restoration of health, prevention of illness, self-care
◉ Describe the shared connectedness between patient and nurse in
the new health promotion nursing process. Answer: The RN should
experience the illness/health threat in the same manner that the
patient perceives it. Move patient to a patient defined state of
coping, harmony, holism, spirituality (meaning)
◉ Nursing Aesthetics. Answer: the art of nursing, low-tech, high-
touch artistry of caring that strengthens the patient's confidence in
their patient to manage the healing process, make changes or master
the threatening health event. Can be described as a transformative
and spiral process.
◉ Name three nursing interventions that fall under Nursing
Aesthetics Art. Answer: Imagery, Music Therapy and Touch
◉ Name the 12 nursing aesthetics that strengthen confidence in
mastering a health threat. Answer: Low tech, high tech, reflective
sharing, listening, touching, imaging, experiencing, presencing,
caring, valuing, facilitating, ALL Foundations of the RELATIONSHIP
,◉ Engaging Transpersonal Care. Answer: Nursing approach which
has evolved from the simple nursing basics of providing treatment-
driven, high-technology centered care. Opportunity for the patient
and family to utilize the nursing process in a new way. Nurse asseses
the patient's confidence to manage the health threat, diagnose's
health alteration from patient's viewpoint, conceptualizes the
outcomes as the patient envisions it, supports the patient in chosen
changes and evaluates the ongoing maintenance of health as it is
lived by the patient.
◉ Name three ways that patients have changed. Answer: Trust in
providers has declined, increased consumerism, increased
accessibility of health information, family structures have also
changed
◉ Family. Answer: A group of people sharing interpersonal bonds,
tasks, and activities
◉ Dyad Family. Answer: Two cohabitating companions or spouses
◉ Nursing Process. Answer: Developed as a framework of
systematic problem solving and actions to be used by the nurses
identifying, preventing or treatment of individual health needs.
Historically the nursing process has been problem oriented, goal
directed, and involved critical thinking. Clear differentiation
between nursing diagnosis and medical diagnosis
, ◉ NANDA. Answer: North American Nursing Diagnosis Association
◉ Family Centered Care. Answer: Placing family relationships, their
coping mechanisms, priorities and perceptions at the center of a
patient's health care needs. Nurse facilitates, does not tell family
what to do, provides education
◉ Community Health Maps. Answer: Used to assess the health of a
family by using tool to look at family structure, function and support
networks. Focus on family health, past successes and current
strengths, NOT family problems
◉ Name the three parts of a Community Health Map. Answer:
Structural Family Assessment, Developmental Family Assessment,
Functional Family Assessment
◉ Cultural Sensitivity. Answer: Learning, recognizing, and
comprehending that these cultural factors are what shape a family's
perception of their health and health related events
◉ Cultural Sensitivity. Answer: How the patient and family
comprehend and respond to a particular health event is shaped by
cultural factors, values and beliefs
CARE TEST PAPER 2026 COMPLETE
RESPONSES GRADED A+
◉ Ethnopluralism. Answer: Diverse cultures, traditional medical
model was based on Euro-Caucasian descent, this is no longer
relevant with the growing diverse cultures in U.S. New medical
model must evolve to include consumerism, holism and diverse
cultures. Also called multi-ethnic
◉ Ethnocentrism. Answer: Belief that your culture or one culture is
superior to another, Traditional Medical Model featured belief that
Euro-Caucasian male health care system values are superior. This
view can critically compromise effective health care.
◉ Describe the nursing process in relations to the TRADITIONAL
LINEAR health wellness continuum. Answer: Emphasis on treating
the illness defined the scope of the nurse practice: assess for signs of
illness, diagnose alternations in health, determine interventions to
restore health, conceptualize a targeted health outcome moving
away from illness, evaluate treatment plan for nurse determined
modifications
◉ Describe the shift in nursing process in relations to the health
wellness continuum. Answer: Shared experience of transcending or
,controlling the health threat and changing it into one of purposeful
meaning. The nurse patient relationship is now circular/spiral. The
goal is to motivate the patient towards promotion, maintenance and
restoration of health, prevention of illness, self-care
◉ Describe the shared connectedness between patient and nurse in
the new health promotion nursing process. Answer: The RN should
experience the illness/health threat in the same manner that the
patient perceives it. Move patient to a patient defined state of
coping, harmony, holism, spirituality (meaning)
◉ Nursing Aesthetics. Answer: the art of nursing, low-tech, high-
touch artistry of caring that strengthens the patient's confidence in
their patient to manage the healing process, make changes or master
the threatening health event. Can be described as a transformative
and spiral process.
◉ Name three nursing interventions that fall under Nursing
Aesthetics Art. Answer: Imagery, Music Therapy and Touch
◉ Name the 12 nursing aesthetics that strengthen confidence in
mastering a health threat. Answer: Low tech, high tech, reflective
sharing, listening, touching, imaging, experiencing, presencing,
caring, valuing, facilitating, ALL Foundations of the RELATIONSHIP
,◉ Engaging Transpersonal Care. Answer: Nursing approach which
has evolved from the simple nursing basics of providing treatment-
driven, high-technology centered care. Opportunity for the patient
and family to utilize the nursing process in a new way. Nurse asseses
the patient's confidence to manage the health threat, diagnose's
health alteration from patient's viewpoint, conceptualizes the
outcomes as the patient envisions it, supports the patient in chosen
changes and evaluates the ongoing maintenance of health as it is
lived by the patient.
◉ Name three ways that patients have changed. Answer: Trust in
providers has declined, increased consumerism, increased
accessibility of health information, family structures have also
changed
◉ Family. Answer: A group of people sharing interpersonal bonds,
tasks, and activities
◉ Dyad Family. Answer: Two cohabitating companions or spouses
◉ Nursing Process. Answer: Developed as a framework of
systematic problem solving and actions to be used by the nurses
identifying, preventing or treatment of individual health needs.
Historically the nursing process has been problem oriented, goal
directed, and involved critical thinking. Clear differentiation
between nursing diagnosis and medical diagnosis
, ◉ NANDA. Answer: North American Nursing Diagnosis Association
◉ Family Centered Care. Answer: Placing family relationships, their
coping mechanisms, priorities and perceptions at the center of a
patient's health care needs. Nurse facilitates, does not tell family
what to do, provides education
◉ Community Health Maps. Answer: Used to assess the health of a
family by using tool to look at family structure, function and support
networks. Focus on family health, past successes and current
strengths, NOT family problems
◉ Name the three parts of a Community Health Map. Answer:
Structural Family Assessment, Developmental Family Assessment,
Functional Family Assessment
◉ Cultural Sensitivity. Answer: Learning, recognizing, and
comprehending that these cultural factors are what shape a family's
perception of their health and health related events
◉ Cultural Sensitivity. Answer: How the patient and family
comprehend and respond to a particular health event is shaped by
cultural factors, values and beliefs
