NSG527 FINAL [2026] UPDATED ACTUAL Exam | Question
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• The two purposes of the family are: -✓✓ 1. Meeting the needs of society
2. Meeting the needs of the individuals in the family
• Healthy families exhibit the following characteristics: (Beaver and Hampton) -✓✓
Effective skills for negotiating problems
Are clear, open and spontaneous in expressing emotions and decisions
Respect the feelings of others
Encourage others to be independent
Hold others personally accountable for their actions
Display warmth and closeness toward each other
• Stage 1 of Health/Illness and Family Interaction -✓✓ Family Efforts at Health
Promotion-Many lifestyles that affect health are learned in the family. Tobacco use is an
example of this. Health promotion, prevention, and risk reduction are impacted by
families.
• Three causal relationships that can alter family health status include -✓✓ marriage
parenthood
social support systems
• Stage 2 of Health/Illness and Family Interaction -✓✓ Family Appraisal of Symptoms-
This stage begins when a family member has symptoms
• Stage 3 of Health/Illness and Family Interaction -✓✓ Care Seeking-A decision is made
to seek medical care. Family members are consulted as needed for advice and
recommendations, which may include on home remedies and self-medication
• Stage 4 of Health/Illness and Family Interaction -✓✓ Referral and Obtaining Care-
Contact with a health care provider is initiated. This can be based upon the severity of
the patient's condition, family's culture, health beliefs, availability, and accessibility.
• Stage 5 of Health/Illness and Family Interaction -✓✓ Acute Response to Illness by
Client and Family-The patient takes on the "sick role" and adaptation in this role begins
with the patient and family.
• Stage 6 of Health/Illness and Family Interaction -✓✓ adaptation to Illness and
Recovery- Support of the patient by the family unit begins for convalescing and
rehabilitating. Coping and adaptation about the illness begins at this stage.
, • Family as Context -✓✓ The patient is an individual with family members who are
usually the primary resource for them. The individual is the primary receiver and the
family is secondary for assessment and intervention of care.
• Family as Sum of its Members -✓✓ The family is a sum of all family members. Family
healthcare is operational when all members of the family receive care.
• Family Subsystems as Client -✓✓ The subsystem of a family can be defined as a dyad
or triad and be comprised of a married couple, parent-child, and sibling-sibling, for
example. They are the recipients of care.
• Family as Client -✓✓ The entire family is in the foreground. Dynamics of the family,
subsystems, and relationships with external sources are the focus.
• Family as a Component of Society -✓✓ The family is a subsystem of society. Families
are considered an institution of society equating to religion and educational institutions
for example.
• Primary Prevention -✓✓ Prevent the occurrence of disease.
Health promotion and disease prevention
Teach families to take responsibility for health and attain health goals by enjoying a
healthy lifestyle
• Secondary Prevention -✓✓ After the disease occurrence
Early detection, diagnosis, treatment of signs and symptoms
Conduct screening assessments
Health teaching
• Tertiary Prevention -✓✓ Recovery and rehabilitation
Maximize the level of functioning
Provide support to families in the rehabilitation process
• Nightingale's Environmental Model -✓✓ Did not present a theory of nursing or family
nursing
Emphasized the presence of environmental factors in health and wellness
Nurses care for the whole family unit in the home environment
• King's Theory of Goal Attainment -✓✓ included family-as-context
Collaboratively the nurse and family members identify complete assessment to
determine goals and a plan of care
The family unit provides socialization and establishes norms of behavior across the life
cycle.
• Roy's Adaptation Model -✓✓ Family is a unit of analysis, in the same context as the
individual
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• The two purposes of the family are: -✓✓ 1. Meeting the needs of society
2. Meeting the needs of the individuals in the family
• Healthy families exhibit the following characteristics: (Beaver and Hampton) -✓✓
Effective skills for negotiating problems
Are clear, open and spontaneous in expressing emotions and decisions
Respect the feelings of others
Encourage others to be independent
Hold others personally accountable for their actions
Display warmth and closeness toward each other
• Stage 1 of Health/Illness and Family Interaction -✓✓ Family Efforts at Health
Promotion-Many lifestyles that affect health are learned in the family. Tobacco use is an
example of this. Health promotion, prevention, and risk reduction are impacted by
families.
• Three causal relationships that can alter family health status include -✓✓ marriage
parenthood
social support systems
• Stage 2 of Health/Illness and Family Interaction -✓✓ Family Appraisal of Symptoms-
This stage begins when a family member has symptoms
• Stage 3 of Health/Illness and Family Interaction -✓✓ Care Seeking-A decision is made
to seek medical care. Family members are consulted as needed for advice and
recommendations, which may include on home remedies and self-medication
• Stage 4 of Health/Illness and Family Interaction -✓✓ Referral and Obtaining Care-
Contact with a health care provider is initiated. This can be based upon the severity of
the patient's condition, family's culture, health beliefs, availability, and accessibility.
• Stage 5 of Health/Illness and Family Interaction -✓✓ Acute Response to Illness by
Client and Family-The patient takes on the "sick role" and adaptation in this role begins
with the patient and family.
• Stage 6 of Health/Illness and Family Interaction -✓✓ adaptation to Illness and
Recovery- Support of the patient by the family unit begins for convalescing and
rehabilitating. Coping and adaptation about the illness begins at this stage.
, • Family as Context -✓✓ The patient is an individual with family members who are
usually the primary resource for them. The individual is the primary receiver and the
family is secondary for assessment and intervention of care.
• Family as Sum of its Members -✓✓ The family is a sum of all family members. Family
healthcare is operational when all members of the family receive care.
• Family Subsystems as Client -✓✓ The subsystem of a family can be defined as a dyad
or triad and be comprised of a married couple, parent-child, and sibling-sibling, for
example. They are the recipients of care.
• Family as Client -✓✓ The entire family is in the foreground. Dynamics of the family,
subsystems, and relationships with external sources are the focus.
• Family as a Component of Society -✓✓ The family is a subsystem of society. Families
are considered an institution of society equating to religion and educational institutions
for example.
• Primary Prevention -✓✓ Prevent the occurrence of disease.
Health promotion and disease prevention
Teach families to take responsibility for health and attain health goals by enjoying a
healthy lifestyle
• Secondary Prevention -✓✓ After the disease occurrence
Early detection, diagnosis, treatment of signs and symptoms
Conduct screening assessments
Health teaching
• Tertiary Prevention -✓✓ Recovery and rehabilitation
Maximize the level of functioning
Provide support to families in the rehabilitation process
• Nightingale's Environmental Model -✓✓ Did not present a theory of nursing or family
nursing
Emphasized the presence of environmental factors in health and wellness
Nurses care for the whole family unit in the home environment
• King's Theory of Goal Attainment -✓✓ included family-as-context
Collaboratively the nurse and family members identify complete assessment to
determine goals and a plan of care
The family unit provides socialization and establishes norms of behavior across the life
cycle.
• Roy's Adaptation Model -✓✓ Family is a unit of analysis, in the same context as the
individual
