Family Nursing Midterm comprehensive Questions and
Answers with 100% Correct Answers | Latest Version
Question 1.
What are the three foundational components of family nursing?
Correct Answer: 1. Determining how the family is defined 2. Understanding the
concepts of family health 3. Knowing the current evidence about the elements of a
health family
Question 2.
What is family?
Correct Answer: Family life is a universal human experience and no two individuals
have the exact same experience within a family. No universally agreed-upon definition
of family.
Question 3.
Legal Definition of Family
Correct Answer: relationships through blood ties, adoption, guardianship or marriage
Question 4.
Biological Definition of Family
Correct Answer: Genetic biological networks among and between people. Who is
biologically connected to that family member? Epidemiology, hereditary disease.
Question 5.
Sociological Definition of Family
Correct Answer: Groups of people living together with or without legal or biological
ties I.e Kibbutz
Question 6.
Psychological Definition of Family
Correct Answer: Groups with strong emotional ties. People that want to be together
are really connected emotionally so they end up staying with each other.
,Question 7.
The textbooks definition of family
Correct Answer: Family refers to two or more individuals who depend on one another
for emotional, physical, and economic support. The members of the family are
self-defined. Family is who they say they are, nurses who work with families should
ask clients who they consider to be members of their family and should include those
persons in health care planning with the patient's permission.
Question 8.
What is family health?
Correct Answer: Family health is a dynamic, changing state of well-being, which
includes the biological, psychological, spiritual, sociological, and cultural factors of
individual family members and the family system. - an individual's health (on
wellness-to-illness contunuum) affects the entire family -ensure you are looking at the
whole perspective
Question 9.
What is family functioning?
Correct Answer: Difficult to describe characteristics of a family that is
well-functioning. Otto (1963) -first scholar to develop psychosocial criteria for
assessing family strengths, and emphasized the need to focus on positive family
attributes instead of pathological approach that accentuated family problems and
weaknesses. Pratt 1976 -energized family: as one whose structure encourages and
supports individual to develop their capacities for full functioning and independent
action, thus contributing to family health.
Question 10.
Curran's Traits (1985) of a Healthy Family
Correct Answer: Communicates and Listens Fosters table time and conversation
Affirms and supports each member Teaches respect for others Develops a sense of
trust Has a sense of play and humor Has a balance of interaction among members
Shares leisure time Abounds to rituals and traditions Teaches a sense of right and
wrong Shares a religious core Respects the privacy of others Values service to others
Admits to problems and seeks help
Question 11.
Family Flexibility
Correct Answer: Olson and Gorall (2005) conducted a study and found that the ability
of the family to demonstrate flexibility is related to its ability to alter family leadership
roles, relationships, and rules, including control, discipline, and role sharing.
Functional, healthy families have the ability to change these factors in response to
situations.
, Question 12.
What are the dominant patterns of family functioning?
Correct Answer: Balanced flexibility and balance cohesion
Question 13.
Family Nursing Competences: Generalist
Correct Answer: 1. Enhance and promote family health 2. focus nursing practice on
family's strengths, the support of family and individual growth, the improvement of
family self-management abilities, the facilitation of successful life transitions, the
improvement and management of health, and the mobilization of family resources. 3.
Demonstrate leadership and systems thinking skills to ensure the quality of nursing
care with families in everyday practice and across every content. 4. Practice using
evidence-based practice
Question 14.
What are the four views of family through a lens?
Correct Answer: Systems Component Context Client
Question 15.
Family as Context
Correct Answer: Family centered, family focused, The first approach to family nursing
focuses on the ax and care of an individual client in which family is context.
Traditional nursing focus, individual is foreground, family background. The family
serves as a context for the individual as either a resource or stressor to the individual
health or illness. This approach is rooted in the speciality of maternal-child nursing
and underlies the philosophy of many maternity and peds health care settings.
Question 16.
Family as Client
Correct Answer: The family nurse is interested in the way all family members are
individually affected by the health event of one family member. In this approach, all
members of the family are in the foreground. The family is seen as the sum of
individual family members, and the focus is concentrated on each individual. The
nurses assesses and provides healthcare for each person in the family. Typically
seen in the communities where Primary care Physicians, or NPs provide care over
time to all individuals in a given family. Family as foreground, individual as
background
Answers with 100% Correct Answers | Latest Version
Question 1.
What are the three foundational components of family nursing?
Correct Answer: 1. Determining how the family is defined 2. Understanding the
concepts of family health 3. Knowing the current evidence about the elements of a
health family
Question 2.
What is family?
Correct Answer: Family life is a universal human experience and no two individuals
have the exact same experience within a family. No universally agreed-upon definition
of family.
Question 3.
Legal Definition of Family
Correct Answer: relationships through blood ties, adoption, guardianship or marriage
Question 4.
Biological Definition of Family
Correct Answer: Genetic biological networks among and between people. Who is
biologically connected to that family member? Epidemiology, hereditary disease.
Question 5.
Sociological Definition of Family
Correct Answer: Groups of people living together with or without legal or biological
ties I.e Kibbutz
Question 6.
Psychological Definition of Family
Correct Answer: Groups with strong emotional ties. People that want to be together
are really connected emotionally so they end up staying with each other.
,Question 7.
The textbooks definition of family
Correct Answer: Family refers to two or more individuals who depend on one another
for emotional, physical, and economic support. The members of the family are
self-defined. Family is who they say they are, nurses who work with families should
ask clients who they consider to be members of their family and should include those
persons in health care planning with the patient's permission.
Question 8.
What is family health?
Correct Answer: Family health is a dynamic, changing state of well-being, which
includes the biological, psychological, spiritual, sociological, and cultural factors of
individual family members and the family system. - an individual's health (on
wellness-to-illness contunuum) affects the entire family -ensure you are looking at the
whole perspective
Question 9.
What is family functioning?
Correct Answer: Difficult to describe characteristics of a family that is
well-functioning. Otto (1963) -first scholar to develop psychosocial criteria for
assessing family strengths, and emphasized the need to focus on positive family
attributes instead of pathological approach that accentuated family problems and
weaknesses. Pratt 1976 -energized family: as one whose structure encourages and
supports individual to develop their capacities for full functioning and independent
action, thus contributing to family health.
Question 10.
Curran's Traits (1985) of a Healthy Family
Correct Answer: Communicates and Listens Fosters table time and conversation
Affirms and supports each member Teaches respect for others Develops a sense of
trust Has a sense of play and humor Has a balance of interaction among members
Shares leisure time Abounds to rituals and traditions Teaches a sense of right and
wrong Shares a religious core Respects the privacy of others Values service to others
Admits to problems and seeks help
Question 11.
Family Flexibility
Correct Answer: Olson and Gorall (2005) conducted a study and found that the ability
of the family to demonstrate flexibility is related to its ability to alter family leadership
roles, relationships, and rules, including control, discipline, and role sharing.
Functional, healthy families have the ability to change these factors in response to
situations.
, Question 12.
What are the dominant patterns of family functioning?
Correct Answer: Balanced flexibility and balance cohesion
Question 13.
Family Nursing Competences: Generalist
Correct Answer: 1. Enhance and promote family health 2. focus nursing practice on
family's strengths, the support of family and individual growth, the improvement of
family self-management abilities, the facilitation of successful life transitions, the
improvement and management of health, and the mobilization of family resources. 3.
Demonstrate leadership and systems thinking skills to ensure the quality of nursing
care with families in everyday practice and across every content. 4. Practice using
evidence-based practice
Question 14.
What are the four views of family through a lens?
Correct Answer: Systems Component Context Client
Question 15.
Family as Context
Correct Answer: Family centered, family focused, The first approach to family nursing
focuses on the ax and care of an individual client in which family is context.
Traditional nursing focus, individual is foreground, family background. The family
serves as a context for the individual as either a resource or stressor to the individual
health or illness. This approach is rooted in the speciality of maternal-child nursing
and underlies the philosophy of many maternity and peds health care settings.
Question 16.
Family as Client
Correct Answer: The family nurse is interested in the way all family members are
individually affected by the health event of one family member. In this approach, all
members of the family are in the foreground. The family is seen as the sum of
individual family members, and the focus is concentrated on each individual. The
nurses assesses and provides healthcare for each person in the family. Typically
seen in the communities where Primary care Physicians, or NPs provide care over
time to all individuals in a given family. Family as foreground, individual as
background
