Nurs 404 Exam 3 (100% correct answers)

The family nurse conducts the family nursing assessment with the family as a unit. Using a systematic process, family problems are identified and family strengths are emphasized as building blocks for interventions. Which of the following best completes the statement to demonstrate the importance of assessment to outcomes? Integrating the extended families: A. fosters equal family and provider commitment to success. B. facilitates outcomes-oriented family nursing research. C. decreases the need for nurse contact and intervention. D. removes barriers to needed services to achieve success. correct answers A. Building the interventions with family-identified problems and strengths allows for equal family and provider commitment to the solutions and ensures more successful interventions. The interactions between family members become the target for nursing interventions (e.g., the direct interactions between the parents, or the indirect interaction between the parents and the child). The systems approach to family always implies that when something happens to one family member, the other members of the family system are affected. The nurse in community health uses information about family structure, household composition, marriage, divorce, birth, death, adoption, and other family life events to forecast and predict stresses and developmental changes experienced by families and identify possible solutions to family challenges. This best describes the study of: correct answers Family demographics Family demographics is the study of the structure of families and households and the family-related events, such as marriage and divorce, that alter the structure through their number, timing, and sequencing. Nurses must be knowledgeable about family structures, functions, processes, and roles. In addition, nurses must be aware of and understand their own values and attitudes pertaining to their own families, as well as being open to different family structures and cultures. The current-day definition of family refers to two or more individuals who depend on one another for emotional, physical, and/or financial support. Which of the following is the most important principle to support this broader definition? A. Families are defined by genetic ties. B. Family names are needed to confer status. C. Members of a family are self-defined. D. Traditional family functions have been redefined. correct answers C. The members of a family are self-defined. Nurses working with families should ask the people whom they consider to be their family and then include those members in health care planning. The family may range