CAREGIVING EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
1. Emotional exhaustion
2. High degree of depersonalization
3. Low sense of personal accomplishment from work - Answer-name 3 signs of HCP
burnout
1. Work environment (workload, human interactions) - i.e. performance expectations
and learning/practice
2. Health care responsibilities
3. Work organizational factors including administration
4. Society and culture
5. Regulations, policies, accreditation standards
6. Rapid changes in Health Care delivery systems - Answer-name 6 factors that affect
HCPs well-being
caregiving - Answer-essentially an unpaid support and assistance of family members to
an individual
made up of actions on the behalf of another individual who is unable to complete those
actions by him or herself
individuals who have physical, psychological, or developmental needs
encompasses caregiving for children, adult children, or an adult child becoming
caregiver to an elderly parent - Answer-who needs caregiving?
1. help family decide what caregiving options there are
2. explain the resources available
3. assess the caregiver for stress at the individual's check-up appointments - Answer-
name 3 of the nurse's roles when it comes to evaluating caregiving
family dynamics - Answer-"the forces at work within a family that produce particular
behaviors or symptoms"
interrelationships between and among individual family members
1. Nuclear family
2. Married-parent families
3. Extended families
4. Married blended families
5. Cohabitating-parent families
6. Single-parent families
, 7. No-parent families
8. Same-sex families - Answer-remember there are many different definitions for
"family"
family systems theory
- family is greater than the sum of its members
- a change in one member affects all members
- feels the family as a whole is more important than them as an individual
- family's ability to adapt is very strong - Answer-a theory that views the family as a
system of interacting parts whose interactions exhibit consistent patterns and unstated
rules
part of a larger suprasystem and is made of many subsystems
circular
when changing and adapting to the illness of one family member, each subsystem is
going to adapt with it because there is ripple effect across the whole system - Answer-in
the family systems theory, family members' behaviors are best understood from a view
of _________ rather than linear causality
structural functional theory
- stable family provides social order and economic stability
- members have various roles that allow the family to function internally and in society -
Answer-views the family as a social system
- a complex system that works together to promote solidarity and stability
- looks at it not only from the view of the family, but also from society as a whole
socializing - Answer-with the structural functional theory, a crucial component of the
family is _________ the individuals within the family to help meet emotional needs for
each of its members
family stress theory - Answer-based on family response to & coping with stressful
events
often seen after the caregiving has begun
*internal:* issues that family can control
ex: values, beliefs, moral changes
*external:* issues the family cannot control
ex: economy, current events, loss of job - Answer-explain the internal vs. external
stressors of the family
ANSWERS
1. Emotional exhaustion
2. High degree of depersonalization
3. Low sense of personal accomplishment from work - Answer-name 3 signs of HCP
burnout
1. Work environment (workload, human interactions) - i.e. performance expectations
and learning/practice
2. Health care responsibilities
3. Work organizational factors including administration
4. Society and culture
5. Regulations, policies, accreditation standards
6. Rapid changes in Health Care delivery systems - Answer-name 6 factors that affect
HCPs well-being
caregiving - Answer-essentially an unpaid support and assistance of family members to
an individual
made up of actions on the behalf of another individual who is unable to complete those
actions by him or herself
individuals who have physical, psychological, or developmental needs
encompasses caregiving for children, adult children, or an adult child becoming
caregiver to an elderly parent - Answer-who needs caregiving?
1. help family decide what caregiving options there are
2. explain the resources available
3. assess the caregiver for stress at the individual's check-up appointments - Answer-
name 3 of the nurse's roles when it comes to evaluating caregiving
family dynamics - Answer-"the forces at work within a family that produce particular
behaviors or symptoms"
interrelationships between and among individual family members
1. Nuclear family
2. Married-parent families
3. Extended families
4. Married blended families
5. Cohabitating-parent families
6. Single-parent families
, 7. No-parent families
8. Same-sex families - Answer-remember there are many different definitions for
"family"
family systems theory
- family is greater than the sum of its members
- a change in one member affects all members
- feels the family as a whole is more important than them as an individual
- family's ability to adapt is very strong - Answer-a theory that views the family as a
system of interacting parts whose interactions exhibit consistent patterns and unstated
rules
part of a larger suprasystem and is made of many subsystems
circular
when changing and adapting to the illness of one family member, each subsystem is
going to adapt with it because there is ripple effect across the whole system - Answer-in
the family systems theory, family members' behaviors are best understood from a view
of _________ rather than linear causality
structural functional theory
- stable family provides social order and economic stability
- members have various roles that allow the family to function internally and in society -
Answer-views the family as a social system
- a complex system that works together to promote solidarity and stability
- looks at it not only from the view of the family, but also from society as a whole
socializing - Answer-with the structural functional theory, a crucial component of the
family is _________ the individuals within the family to help meet emotional needs for
each of its members
family stress theory - Answer-based on family response to & coping with stressful
events
often seen after the caregiving has begun
*internal:* issues that family can control
ex: values, beliefs, moral changes
*external:* issues the family cannot control
ex: economy, current events, loss of job - Answer-explain the internal vs. external
stressors of the family
