NURS 415 EXAM 1 UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Family theory
Answer:
6 reasons why CHN should work with families
1. dysfunction that affects one family member will probably affect others
2. Wellness of the family is dependent on how involved the family is in every aspect of healthcare
prevention to rehabilitation.
3. Wellness of the whole family can be increased by reducing life saw an environmental risk (promoting
self care, health, promotion, health, education, and family counseling)
4. Commonalities and risk factors and disease shared by family members can lead to case finding within
the family.
5. Understanding of individual function can be gained only by accessing the individual with the family.
6. Family is a vital support system and needs to be incorporated into care for an individual.
Question:
2. Family health approach
Answer:
Includes the family theory, systems theory, structural, functional conceptual, framework, developmental
theory, and barriers for family health
Question:
3. System theory
Answer:
theory that describes the interconnected elements of a system in which a change in one element affects all
of the other elements
Question:
4. Definition of family
Answer:
A social unit interacting with the larger society, characterized by people together due to birth, marriage,
adoption, or choice
Question:
5. Family nursing
Answer:
consists of nurses and families working together to ensure the success of the family and its members in
adapting to responses to health and illness
One persons, ideas and beliefs. Influence is the whole family.
Question:
6. Nuclear family
,Answer:
Mother, father and children living as a unit
Decreasing due to increasing number of teen mothers
Question:
7. Cohabitant
Answer:
Living with an unmarried
Highest between ages, 18 and 24
Includes LGBT
Increasing
Question:
8. Single parents
Answer:
Increasing
Increased risk due to reduced social financial and emotional resources, which affect the general well-being
of children and family
Question:
9. Family interviewing
Answer:
The nurse cares for the family through applying general systems, theory and family assessment to assess
family's response to events across the lifespan, such as
Paranormative events: chronic illness, or divorce Normative events : birth, or retirement
Question:
10. Family as a unit of care
Answer:
view the family as the sum of all individual members, ...you might direct interventions to individual family
members rather than the family as a whole
Question:
11. Family interviewing components
Answer:
Manners
Therapeutic conversation -contextually, sensitive to language culture setting time available theoretical
orientation
Genogram an ecomapping Therapeutic questions - themes include family expectations, challenges,
concerns, family problems at the time and sharing of information
Commanding family or individual strengths
Question:
12. Models of care for family, through community coalitions
Answer:
Kentucky partnership for farm family health
Safety in the hands program
, Question:
13. Kentucky partnership for farm family health
Answer:
Originally created to increase health of farm families
Women were taught: leadership, conflict resolution, and teambuilding CPR, first aid, development of
emergency subsystems
Community members reported an increase in personal knowledge, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction
Question:
14. HANDS program
Answer:
Health access, nurturing development services
Home visitation for first time parents who are at risk Social workers nurses, parent resource, people and
programs provided counseling, education and support services until the child is two
Decreased number of preterm birth, ER visits, child abuse, neglect, an infant mortality
Question:
15. Developmental theory
Answer:
Understanding the phases and struggles that families experience while going through them
Family development is the individual unique path of the family goes through Family life cycle is the
typical path many families go through
Question:
16. Structural, functional conceptual framework
Answer:
Family is viewed according to the structure or parts of the family system, and its functions or how the
family fulfills its roles
Internal structure refers to:
-family composition and changes
-Gender
-Rank order by age and sex
-Subsystems (spouse, parent interest)
-Boundary set based on who participates, and how they participate in the family system
External structure refers to :
-Extended family (family of origin, or of procreation)
-Larger system such as work health and welfare
Question:
17. What is the function of a genogram?
Answer:
Helps the nurse outline the family, structure and patterns of family history, hereditary health problems or
need for education and promotion
Three. Generations of family members.
Question:
18. What is the function of a family health Tree?
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Family theory
Answer:
6 reasons why CHN should work with families
1. dysfunction that affects one family member will probably affect others
2. Wellness of the family is dependent on how involved the family is in every aspect of healthcare
prevention to rehabilitation.
3. Wellness of the whole family can be increased by reducing life saw an environmental risk (promoting
self care, health, promotion, health, education, and family counseling)
4. Commonalities and risk factors and disease shared by family members can lead to case finding within
the family.
5. Understanding of individual function can be gained only by accessing the individual with the family.
6. Family is a vital support system and needs to be incorporated into care for an individual.
Question:
2. Family health approach
Answer:
Includes the family theory, systems theory, structural, functional conceptual, framework, developmental
theory, and barriers for family health
Question:
3. System theory
Answer:
theory that describes the interconnected elements of a system in which a change in one element affects all
of the other elements
Question:
4. Definition of family
Answer:
A social unit interacting with the larger society, characterized by people together due to birth, marriage,
adoption, or choice
Question:
5. Family nursing
Answer:
consists of nurses and families working together to ensure the success of the family and its members in
adapting to responses to health and illness
One persons, ideas and beliefs. Influence is the whole family.
Question:
6. Nuclear family
,Answer:
Mother, father and children living as a unit
Decreasing due to increasing number of teen mothers
Question:
7. Cohabitant
Answer:
Living with an unmarried
Highest between ages, 18 and 24
Includes LGBT
Increasing
Question:
8. Single parents
Answer:
Increasing
Increased risk due to reduced social financial and emotional resources, which affect the general well-being
of children and family
Question:
9. Family interviewing
Answer:
The nurse cares for the family through applying general systems, theory and family assessment to assess
family's response to events across the lifespan, such as
Paranormative events: chronic illness, or divorce Normative events : birth, or retirement
Question:
10. Family as a unit of care
Answer:
view the family as the sum of all individual members, ...you might direct interventions to individual family
members rather than the family as a whole
Question:
11. Family interviewing components
Answer:
Manners
Therapeutic conversation -contextually, sensitive to language culture setting time available theoretical
orientation
Genogram an ecomapping Therapeutic questions - themes include family expectations, challenges,
concerns, family problems at the time and sharing of information
Commanding family or individual strengths
Question:
12. Models of care for family, through community coalitions
Answer:
Kentucky partnership for farm family health
Safety in the hands program
, Question:
13. Kentucky partnership for farm family health
Answer:
Originally created to increase health of farm families
Women were taught: leadership, conflict resolution, and teambuilding CPR, first aid, development of
emergency subsystems
Community members reported an increase in personal knowledge, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction
Question:
14. HANDS program
Answer:
Health access, nurturing development services
Home visitation for first time parents who are at risk Social workers nurses, parent resource, people and
programs provided counseling, education and support services until the child is two
Decreased number of preterm birth, ER visits, child abuse, neglect, an infant mortality
Question:
15. Developmental theory
Answer:
Understanding the phases and struggles that families experience while going through them
Family development is the individual unique path of the family goes through Family life cycle is the
typical path many families go through
Question:
16. Structural, functional conceptual framework
Answer:
Family is viewed according to the structure or parts of the family system, and its functions or how the
family fulfills its roles
Internal structure refers to:
-family composition and changes
-Gender
-Rank order by age and sex
-Subsystems (spouse, parent interest)
-Boundary set based on who participates, and how they participate in the family system
External structure refers to :
-Extended family (family of origin, or of procreation)
-Larger system such as work health and welfare
Question:
17. What is the function of a genogram?
Answer:
Helps the nurse outline the family, structure and patterns of family history, hereditary health problems or
need for education and promotion
Three. Generations of family members.
Question:
18. What is the function of a family health Tree?
