Final Exam: Home Health Questions With Complete Solutions

Strategies for reducing caregiver burden and stress; nursing actions and caregiver self-care correct answer: ● Family Coping Strategies ● Becoming expert in knowledge ● Achieving mastery in managing symptoms ● Normalization - focus on reducing stigma and a sense of control ● Positive reframing - focusing on the client's strengths ● Spirituality - seeking meaning and support through spiritual practice The nurse knows that family caregivers experience increased stress. What self-care tips can the nurse teach caregivers to help maintain caregiver stress? correct answer: ●Ask family and friends for help ●Allow/encourage the client to do as much for themselves as they can ●Accept help from others without criticizing if they don't do as well as the caregiver does Rational: Keeping a routine will help promote the caregiver's own mental and physical health, because having a routine prevents caregiver from strain from having to cope with and work around frequent changes, and physically, a routine that promotes better health Demographic characteristics of caregivers correct answer: ● Informal (Family) Caregivers ● 40 million unpaid family caregivers in the U.S. ● Some spend more time and resources caring for aging parents than for raising their children ● Often live with client - 24/7 caregiving ● 58-63% caregivers are women ● Most do not have help from other caregivers ● Prolonged periods of caregiving contributes to stress and burnout ● Caregivers are "hidden patients" Healthy and unhealthy family responses to crises or disequilibrium: Family System correct answer: ● Family Response to a Diagnosis of a Chronic Condition ● Family Systems Perspective ● The family is a dynamic entity of interrelated individuals interacting with each other and with the environment ● Boundaries: Who's allowed to be a caregiver? ● Generational ● Patterns of problem-solving