MATERNAL CHILD NURSING CARE BY
PERRY 6TH EDITION ACTUAL EXAM
PAPER 2026 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
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
⩥ Cultural Competence. Answer: Open and receptive to gaining
awareness and respect of cultural influences. Sensitive and
understanding of cultural differences. Framing nursing process
PERRY 6TH EDITION ACTUAL EXAM
PAPER 2026 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
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
⩥ Cultural Competence. Answer: Open and receptive to gaining
awareness and respect of cultural influences. Sensitive and
understanding of cultural differences. Framing nursing process
