NSG 527 UPDATED FINAL PAPER QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS MARKED A+
✔✔APN Involving families - ✔✔Important to find out 'how have you resolved prior
issues'
✔✔Coping strategies - ✔✔'What coping strategies have you used'
✔✔Encouraging discussion - ✔✔Encourage discussion about possible solutions
✔✔Family togetherness - ✔✔Bring the family together
✔✔Empowerment in treatment - ✔✔NEVER dictate that they need to follow the
prescribed treatment plan- empower don't put on defensive, allow input
✔✔Working with families from different cultures - ✔✔Recognize the origins of one's
values/biases and why you hold them
✔✔Cultural Ignorance & Insensitivity - ✔✔Results in poor communication,
stigmatization, inadequate assessment
✔✔Family Social Science Theoretical Perspectives - ✔✔Includes Stress Theory and
Developmental Approach
✔✔Stress Theory - ✔✔Focus on the family's response to crisis, resources and
perceptions of a situation
✔✔Developmental Approach - ✔✔Looks at the family progression through its lifecycles
with predictable stages, tasks and issues
✔✔Structural Functional Approach - ✔✔Comprehensive, holistic perspective assessing
the family and family universe (inner and outer environments)
✔✔Family Lifecycles - ✔✔Commonly experienced events of the family as a unit through
its existence
✔✔Working with Patient vs. Family - ✔✔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 plan
✔✔Situationally determined changes - ✔✔Changes that are influenced by the specific
context or situation.
, ✔✔Clients' perception of the problem - ✔✔The belief of the client regarding their issue,
which is critical in considering change.
✔✔Typology of Family power - ✔✔Categories of family power dynamics: Autocratic,
syncratic, autonomic.
✔✔Egalitarian family - ✔✔A contemporary trend where family power is shared equally
among members.
✔✔Informal roles - ✔✔Roles assumed by family members that help maintain
homeostasis and meet socio-emotional needs.
✔✔Role flexibility - ✔✔The ability of family members to adapt and shift roles as needed
to maintain equilibrium.
✔✔Unfulfilled roles during illness - ✔✔A functional approach where roles are left
unfulfilled until the ill member returns, or other members step in.
✔✔Family values - ✔✔A system of ideas and beliefs that bind families together and
guide behavior.
✔✔Sources of family value conflicts - ✔✔Generational differences, social class
differences, and personal differences.
✔✔Social class determinants - ✔✔Three ways to identify social class: Occupation,
Income, Education.
✔✔Most important social class determinant - ✔✔Occupation.
✔✔Education in social class analysis - ✔✔Ranked highest in determining health status
outcomes.
✔✔General Systems Theory - ✔✔A theory defining a system as a unit with distinct parts
and boundaries over time with identified purposes.
✔✔Open systems - ✔✔Systems that depend on the environment for the exchange of
information, matter, and energy.
✔✔Closed systems - ✔✔Systems that do not interact with the environment.
✔✔Open families - ✔✔Families with more open boundaries and greater energy use.
✔✔Closed families - ✔✔Families that are stagnated, rigid, and view changes as
threatening.
ANSWERS MARKED A+
✔✔APN Involving families - ✔✔Important to find out 'how have you resolved prior
issues'
✔✔Coping strategies - ✔✔'What coping strategies have you used'
✔✔Encouraging discussion - ✔✔Encourage discussion about possible solutions
✔✔Family togetherness - ✔✔Bring the family together
✔✔Empowerment in treatment - ✔✔NEVER dictate that they need to follow the
prescribed treatment plan- empower don't put on defensive, allow input
✔✔Working with families from different cultures - ✔✔Recognize the origins of one's
values/biases and why you hold them
✔✔Cultural Ignorance & Insensitivity - ✔✔Results in poor communication,
stigmatization, inadequate assessment
✔✔Family Social Science Theoretical Perspectives - ✔✔Includes Stress Theory and
Developmental Approach
✔✔Stress Theory - ✔✔Focus on the family's response to crisis, resources and
perceptions of a situation
✔✔Developmental Approach - ✔✔Looks at the family progression through its lifecycles
with predictable stages, tasks and issues
✔✔Structural Functional Approach - ✔✔Comprehensive, holistic perspective assessing
the family and family universe (inner and outer environments)
✔✔Family Lifecycles - ✔✔Commonly experienced events of the family as a unit through
its existence
✔✔Working with Patient vs. Family - ✔✔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 plan
✔✔Situationally determined changes - ✔✔Changes that are influenced by the specific
context or situation.
, ✔✔Clients' perception of the problem - ✔✔The belief of the client regarding their issue,
which is critical in considering change.
✔✔Typology of Family power - ✔✔Categories of family power dynamics: Autocratic,
syncratic, autonomic.
✔✔Egalitarian family - ✔✔A contemporary trend where family power is shared equally
among members.
✔✔Informal roles - ✔✔Roles assumed by family members that help maintain
homeostasis and meet socio-emotional needs.
✔✔Role flexibility - ✔✔The ability of family members to adapt and shift roles as needed
to maintain equilibrium.
✔✔Unfulfilled roles during illness - ✔✔A functional approach where roles are left
unfulfilled until the ill member returns, or other members step in.
✔✔Family values - ✔✔A system of ideas and beliefs that bind families together and
guide behavior.
✔✔Sources of family value conflicts - ✔✔Generational differences, social class
differences, and personal differences.
✔✔Social class determinants - ✔✔Three ways to identify social class: Occupation,
Income, Education.
✔✔Most important social class determinant - ✔✔Occupation.
✔✔Education in social class analysis - ✔✔Ranked highest in determining health status
outcomes.
✔✔General Systems Theory - ✔✔A theory defining a system as a unit with distinct parts
and boundaries over time with identified purposes.
✔✔Open systems - ✔✔Systems that depend on the environment for the exchange of
information, matter, and energy.
✔✔Closed systems - ✔✔Systems that do not interact with the environment.
✔✔Open families - ✔✔Families with more open boundaries and greater energy use.
✔✔Closed families - ✔✔Families that are stagnated, rigid, and view changes as
threatening.
