NSG 527 Final Exam - Questions with Correct
Answers (Verified Update)
114 questions with answers
Topic: NSG 527 Final Exam
1. Norms
Answer: Patterns of behavior considered "right in a given society"
2. Family role in society
Answer: Serves as a mediator between society expectations and individual needs
3. Family role to meet the needs of its members
Answer: serves as a facilitator of personality development
4. Gay/lesbian families vs Cohabitating heterosexual couples
Answer: -No uniform or normative family structure -Increase stigmatization -Developmental
stages can ditter considerably between the two
5. Primary prevention
Answer: health promotion and disease prevention
6. Secondary prevention
Answer: early detection and treatment
7. Tertiary prevention
Answer: -management of chronic illness -rehabilitation and convalescence
8. Florence Nightingale
Answer: -Environmental factors -Home health nursing -Clean air
9. Dorothy Orem
Answer: -The family unit must sustain self care -nursing works with individuals to achieve
self care in the family -the family is a basic conditioning unit
10. APRN working with families
Answer: -family is attected by the health problems of its members -healthy functioning of
the whole family positively attects each family member -helps discover health problems that
other family members are having
11. 5 types of family nurse practice
Answer: conceptualization of the family is a major ditterence between the types
12. APRN involving families
Answer: -important to find out "how have you resolved prior issues" -"what coping strategies
have you used?" -encourage discussion about possible solutions -bring the family together
-NEVER dictate that they need to follow the prescribed treatment plan - empower, don't put
on defensive, allow input
13. Working with families from different cultures
Answer: -recognize the origins of ones values/biases and why you hold them -less
judgmental approach
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, 14. Cultural ignorance and insensitivity results
Answer: -poor communication -stigmatization in -inadequate assessment
15. Working with the patient vs family
Answer: with the family, you can do a full assessment, your evaluation and treatment have
a greater scope because it involves all the family members - broader treatment approach
16. Assessing family to make changes
Answer: -considers that changes are situationally determined -clients perception of the
problem is critical in considering change ie: if a person does not think they have an issue, its
going to be hard to have them incorporate any type of change
17. Stress theory
Answer: focus on the familys response to crisis, resources, and perceptions of a situation
18. Developmental approach
Answer: looks at the family progression through its lifecycles with predictable stages, tasks,
and issues
19. Structural family approach
Answer: comprehensive, holistic, preceptive assessing the family and family universe (inner
and outer environments)
20. The family lifecycles
Answer: commonly experienced events of the family as a unit through its existence
21. Family Role Structure
Answer: -a most functional way of maintaining equilibrium in a family in the face of change
is by use of role flexibility -when a family member is ill, the functional way to handle the
situation is to leave the roles unfulfilled until he or she returns
22. Typology of family power
Answer: -Autocratic -Syncratic -Autonomic
23. The most outstanding contemporary trend relative to family power
Answer: the rise of egalitarian, democratic family
24. Informal roles
Answer: vital to the family because through the assumption of informal roles, family
homeostasis is maintained, and individual socio-emotional needs are met
25. Social Class Determinant
Answer: Three ways in which we identify social class -Occupation (MOST IMPORTANT)
-Income -Education - ranked highest in the process of analysis for determining health status
outcomes
26. Family Values
Answer: -Values are defined as a system of ideas and beliefs that bind families together
-values serve as general guidance to behavior the family is the basic transmitter of values
27. Sources of family value conflicts
Answer: -generational ditterences -social class ditterences -personal ditterences
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Answers (Verified Update)
114 questions with answers
Topic: NSG 527 Final Exam
1. Norms
Answer: Patterns of behavior considered "right in a given society"
2. Family role in society
Answer: Serves as a mediator between society expectations and individual needs
3. Family role to meet the needs of its members
Answer: serves as a facilitator of personality development
4. Gay/lesbian families vs Cohabitating heterosexual couples
Answer: -No uniform or normative family structure -Increase stigmatization -Developmental
stages can ditter considerably between the two
5. Primary prevention
Answer: health promotion and disease prevention
6. Secondary prevention
Answer: early detection and treatment
7. Tertiary prevention
Answer: -management of chronic illness -rehabilitation and convalescence
8. Florence Nightingale
Answer: -Environmental factors -Home health nursing -Clean air
9. Dorothy Orem
Answer: -The family unit must sustain self care -nursing works with individuals to achieve
self care in the family -the family is a basic conditioning unit
10. APRN working with families
Answer: -family is attected by the health problems of its members -healthy functioning of
the whole family positively attects each family member -helps discover health problems that
other family members are having
11. 5 types of family nurse practice
Answer: conceptualization of the family is a major ditterence between the types
12. APRN involving families
Answer: -important to find out "how have you resolved prior issues" -"what coping strategies
have you used?" -encourage discussion about possible solutions -bring the family together
-NEVER dictate that they need to follow the prescribed treatment plan - empower, don't put
on defensive, allow input
13. Working with families from different cultures
Answer: -recognize the origins of ones values/biases and why you hold them -less
judgmental approach
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, 14. Cultural ignorance and insensitivity results
Answer: -poor communication -stigmatization in -inadequate assessment
15. Working with the patient vs family
Answer: with the family, you can do a full assessment, your evaluation and treatment have
a greater scope because it involves all the family members - broader treatment approach
16. Assessing family to make changes
Answer: -considers that changes are situationally determined -clients perception of the
problem is critical in considering change ie: if a person does not think they have an issue, its
going to be hard to have them incorporate any type of change
17. Stress theory
Answer: focus on the familys response to crisis, resources, and perceptions of a situation
18. Developmental approach
Answer: looks at the family progression through its lifecycles with predictable stages, tasks,
and issues
19. Structural family approach
Answer: comprehensive, holistic, preceptive assessing the family and family universe (inner
and outer environments)
20. The family lifecycles
Answer: commonly experienced events of the family as a unit through its existence
21. Family Role Structure
Answer: -a most functional way of maintaining equilibrium in a family in the face of change
is by use of role flexibility -when a family member is ill, the functional way to handle the
situation is to leave the roles unfulfilled until he or she returns
22. Typology of family power
Answer: -Autocratic -Syncratic -Autonomic
23. The most outstanding contemporary trend relative to family power
Answer: the rise of egalitarian, democratic family
24. Informal roles
Answer: vital to the family because through the assumption of informal roles, family
homeostasis is maintained, and individual socio-emotional needs are met
25. Social Class Determinant
Answer: Three ways in which we identify social class -Occupation (MOST IMPORTANT)
-Income -Education - ranked highest in the process of analysis for determining health status
outcomes
26. Family Values
Answer: -Values are defined as a system of ideas and beliefs that bind families together
-values serve as general guidance to behavior the family is the basic transmitter of values
27. Sources of family value conflicts
Answer: -generational ditterences -social class ditterences -personal ditterences
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