FAMILY HEALTH CARE NURSING THEORY
CERTIFICATION EVALUATION COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
VERIFIED
●● Textbook Definition of Family
Answer: 2+ individuals who depend on one another for emotional,
physical, and economic support. The members of the family are self-
defined.
●● Family Health
Answer: a dynamic, changing state of wellbeing which includes the
biological, psychological, spiritual, sociological, and cultural factors of
individual members and the whole family system.
PEOPLE-CENTERED NOT PATIENT-CENTERED (expands to
communities and society)
●● Functional healthy families
Answer: ability to change factors (leadership roles, responsibilities,
rules, discipline, role sharing) in response to stress situations
●● Dysfunctional healthy families
, Answer: less ability to change factors (leadership roles, responsibilities,
rules, discipline, role sharing) and adapt in response to stress situations
●● Family Health Care Nursing
Answer: The process of providing for the health care needs of families
that are within the scope of nursing practice. This nursing care can be
aimed toward the family as context, the family as a whole, the family as
a system or the family as a component of society.
●● Family as the Context (family centered or focused)
Answer: Traditional nursing focus individual is at forefront with the
family in the background, rooted in maternal-child nursing "Who in your
family will help you with your nightly medication?
Family is a resource or a stressor to the individual
●● Family as a Client
Answer: How all family members are individually affected by the health
event of one family member, typical in primary care in community
"Will your nightly need for medication be a problem for other members
of your family?"
Family is seen as a sum of individual members
●● Family as a System
CERTIFICATION EVALUATION COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
VERIFIED
●● Textbook Definition of Family
Answer: 2+ individuals who depend on one another for emotional,
physical, and economic support. The members of the family are self-
defined.
●● Family Health
Answer: a dynamic, changing state of wellbeing which includes the
biological, psychological, spiritual, sociological, and cultural factors of
individual members and the whole family system.
PEOPLE-CENTERED NOT PATIENT-CENTERED (expands to
communities and society)
●● Functional healthy families
Answer: ability to change factors (leadership roles, responsibilities,
rules, discipline, role sharing) in response to stress situations
●● Dysfunctional healthy families
, Answer: less ability to change factors (leadership roles, responsibilities,
rules, discipline, role sharing) and adapt in response to stress situations
●● Family Health Care Nursing
Answer: The process of providing for the health care needs of families
that are within the scope of nursing practice. This nursing care can be
aimed toward the family as context, the family as a whole, the family as
a system or the family as a component of society.
●● Family as the Context (family centered or focused)
Answer: Traditional nursing focus individual is at forefront with the
family in the background, rooted in maternal-child nursing "Who in your
family will help you with your nightly medication?
Family is a resource or a stressor to the individual
●● Family as a Client
Answer: How all family members are individually affected by the health
event of one family member, typical in primary care in community
"Will your nightly need for medication be a problem for other members
of your family?"
Family is seen as a sum of individual members
●● Family as a System
