NUR 130 UPDATED TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔To the patient their definition of family may be ___________ or different than what
your own perception of family is. - ✔✔Unique.
✔✔Patient's families are often _______________. - ✔✔Multigenerational.
✔✔A family is what the __________ says it is. - ✔✔Patient.
✔✔The family of a patient can impact what? - ✔✔1. Health outcomes.
2. Values (cultural/ethical)
3. Productivity (healing/wellness) of your patient.
✔✔What does family-centered Nursing think about? - ✔✔The health of the patient,
along with the health of family.
✔✔If the family is __________ it can have a negative impact on patient ____________.
- ✔✔1. Dysfunctional.
2. Outcomes.
✔✔What are the family structures? - ✔✔1. Traditional.
2. Married adults with no children.
3. Dual earner families.
4. Single parent families.
5. Blended/step families.
6. Extended families.
7. Other family structures (homosexual families)
✔✔What influences are affecting the structure of families in the U.S. today? - ✔✔1.
Health beliefs.
2. Family communication.
, 3. Family coping.
4. Violence.
5. Health problems.
6. Maturity factors.
7. Heredity factors.
8. Sex/ethnicity issues.
9. Poverty.
10. Lifestyle/divorce.
✔✔When performing a family assessment, Nurses need to assess for what? - ✔✔1.
Level of family functioning.
2. Identify strengths/weaknesses.
3. Family communication patterns.
4. Family coping.
5. Family health practices.
✔✔In a family assessment, Nurses need to assess what? - ✔✔1. Family structure: how
are decisions made?
2. Family roles.
3. Physical health status.
4. Interaction patterns.
5. Family values.
6. Coping resources.
✔✔What are the family risk factors? - ✔✔1. Adapting to new roles.
2. Financial needs.
3. Adolescent risk taking behaviors.
4. Children leaving home.
5. Illness or death.
✔✔What are the challenges to family health? - ✔✔1. Effects of poverty and
unemployment.
2. Infectious diseases.
3. Chronic illness/disability.
4. Homelessness.
5. Violence and neglect within families.
6. Anxiety of the unknown.
✔✔In a family-centered Nursing encounter what steps should the Nurse perform? -
✔✔1. Perform a family health assessment.
2. Establish a Nursing diagnosis (disabled family coping).
3. Promote ideals of health and wellness within the family structure.
4. Help the family cope with illness.
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔To the patient their definition of family may be ___________ or different than what
your own perception of family is. - ✔✔Unique.
✔✔Patient's families are often _______________. - ✔✔Multigenerational.
✔✔A family is what the __________ says it is. - ✔✔Patient.
✔✔The family of a patient can impact what? - ✔✔1. Health outcomes.
2. Values (cultural/ethical)
3. Productivity (healing/wellness) of your patient.
✔✔What does family-centered Nursing think about? - ✔✔The health of the patient,
along with the health of family.
✔✔If the family is __________ it can have a negative impact on patient ____________.
- ✔✔1. Dysfunctional.
2. Outcomes.
✔✔What are the family structures? - ✔✔1. Traditional.
2. Married adults with no children.
3. Dual earner families.
4. Single parent families.
5. Blended/step families.
6. Extended families.
7. Other family structures (homosexual families)
✔✔What influences are affecting the structure of families in the U.S. today? - ✔✔1.
Health beliefs.
2. Family communication.
, 3. Family coping.
4. Violence.
5. Health problems.
6. Maturity factors.
7. Heredity factors.
8. Sex/ethnicity issues.
9. Poverty.
10. Lifestyle/divorce.
✔✔When performing a family assessment, Nurses need to assess for what? - ✔✔1.
Level of family functioning.
2. Identify strengths/weaknesses.
3. Family communication patterns.
4. Family coping.
5. Family health practices.
✔✔In a family assessment, Nurses need to assess what? - ✔✔1. Family structure: how
are decisions made?
2. Family roles.
3. Physical health status.
4. Interaction patterns.
5. Family values.
6. Coping resources.
✔✔What are the family risk factors? - ✔✔1. Adapting to new roles.
2. Financial needs.
3. Adolescent risk taking behaviors.
4. Children leaving home.
5. Illness or death.
✔✔What are the challenges to family health? - ✔✔1. Effects of poverty and
unemployment.
2. Infectious diseases.
3. Chronic illness/disability.
4. Homelessness.
5. Violence and neglect within families.
6. Anxiety of the unknown.
✔✔In a family-centered Nursing encounter what steps should the Nurse perform? -
✔✔1. Perform a family health assessment.
2. Establish a Nursing diagnosis (disabled family coping).
3. Promote ideals of health and wellness within the family structure.
4. Help the family cope with illness.
