NURS 3016 EXAMS SCRIPT UPDATED QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Circumplex model - ✔✔Shows balance between functional family and dysfunctional
✔✔5 Family functions - ✔✔1. Reproductive
2. Socialization
3. Affective
4. Economic
5. Health care
✔✔5 Family processes - ✔✔1. Coping
2. Roles
3. Communication
4. Decision making
5. Rituals and routines
✔✔Variations of household structure - ✔✔Nuclear dyad: Married, no kids
Nuclear: Married or living together with kids
Binuclear: 2 post divorce families with children from new family
Extended: Nuclear + extended family
Blended: Husband and wife and children form past relationships
Single parent: One parent and children
,Commune: Group of men women and children
Cohabilitation: Unmarried man and woman
Homosexual: Same sex couple
Single person: Lives alone
✔✔Concepts of change theory - ✔✔1. Change is dependent on the perception of the
problem
2. Change is determined by structure
3. Change is dependent on context
4. Change is dependent on co-evolving goals for treatment
5. Understanding alone does not lead to change
6. Change does not occur equally in all family members
7. Facilitating change is the nurses responsibility
8. Change occurs by fit or meshing between therapeutic offerings of the nurse and the
biopsychosocial-spiritual structures of family members
9. Change can be the result of a myriad of causes or reasons
✔✔Microsystem - ✔✔The individual
✔✔Mesosystem - ✔✔The individuals school, park, day-care, peers, doctors office,
church
✔✔Exosystem - ✔✔friends of family, extended family, neighbours, legal services,
school board, community health services, workplace, media
✔✔Macrosystem - ✔✔Broad ideology, laws, customs of ones culture
✔✔Chronosystem - ✔✔Change is a persons environment over time (death of a parent,
disaster, war, critical events)
✔✔Order of BSE theory - ✔✔Microsystem
Mesosystem
Exosystem
Macrosystem
Chronosystem
✔✔family health promotion - ✔✔Refers to the activities that families engage in to
strengthen the family as a unit. Focuses on achieving maximum family well-being
throughout the family life course
✔✔Family resilience factors - ✔✔Positive outlook, spirituality, family member accord,
flexibility, communication, financial management, time together, mutual recreational
interests, routines and rituals, social support
, ✔✔Family health - ✔✔A holistic, dynamic, and complex state that is the process of
negotiating and solving day to day family life events and crises, and providing for a
quality life for its members
✔✔4 philosophies of family health - ✔✔1. Clinical model
2. Role-performance model
3. Adaptive model
4. Eudaimonistic model
✔✔Clinical model - ✔✔The family is healthy if they are free of physical, mental, and
family dysfunction
✔✔Role-performance model - ✔✔Based on the idea that family health is the ability of
family members to perform their routine roles and achieve developmental tasks
✔✔Adaptive model - ✔✔Families are healthy if they have the ability to change and
grow, and possess the capacity to rebound quickly after crisis
✔✔Eudamonistic model - ✔✔Focus on a holistic approach to family care to maximize
the family's well-being and self-actualization in order to support entire family and
individual members in reaching their maximum health potential
✔✔3 reasons philosophies of family health are useful - ✔✔1. They provide frameworks
for understanding the family's level of health
2. They help design interventions to assist family's in obtaining or maintaining good
health
3. It can facilitate organization of family nursing literature and categorize family research
✔✔T/F: Families that tend towards modernization in family health routines are healthier
than families who are highly ritualized - ✔✔True
✔✔Embedded context - ✔✔The ecological environments and nested relationship that
affect the family health over the life course
✔✔The McMaster Model of Family Functioning - ✔✔Identifies the elements of the family
group and the patterns of transactions among family members that have been found to
distinguish between healthy and unhealthy families
✔✔6 domains of functioning of the McMaster Model of Family Functioning - ✔✔1.
Problem solving
2. Communication
3. Roles
4. Affective responsiveness
5. Affective involvement
6. Behavioural Control
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Circumplex model - ✔✔Shows balance between functional family and dysfunctional
✔✔5 Family functions - ✔✔1. Reproductive
2. Socialization
3. Affective
4. Economic
5. Health care
✔✔5 Family processes - ✔✔1. Coping
2. Roles
3. Communication
4. Decision making
5. Rituals and routines
✔✔Variations of household structure - ✔✔Nuclear dyad: Married, no kids
Nuclear: Married or living together with kids
Binuclear: 2 post divorce families with children from new family
Extended: Nuclear + extended family
Blended: Husband and wife and children form past relationships
Single parent: One parent and children
,Commune: Group of men women and children
Cohabilitation: Unmarried man and woman
Homosexual: Same sex couple
Single person: Lives alone
✔✔Concepts of change theory - ✔✔1. Change is dependent on the perception of the
problem
2. Change is determined by structure
3. Change is dependent on context
4. Change is dependent on co-evolving goals for treatment
5. Understanding alone does not lead to change
6. Change does not occur equally in all family members
7. Facilitating change is the nurses responsibility
8. Change occurs by fit or meshing between therapeutic offerings of the nurse and the
biopsychosocial-spiritual structures of family members
9. Change can be the result of a myriad of causes or reasons
✔✔Microsystem - ✔✔The individual
✔✔Mesosystem - ✔✔The individuals school, park, day-care, peers, doctors office,
church
✔✔Exosystem - ✔✔friends of family, extended family, neighbours, legal services,
school board, community health services, workplace, media
✔✔Macrosystem - ✔✔Broad ideology, laws, customs of ones culture
✔✔Chronosystem - ✔✔Change is a persons environment over time (death of a parent,
disaster, war, critical events)
✔✔Order of BSE theory - ✔✔Microsystem
Mesosystem
Exosystem
Macrosystem
Chronosystem
✔✔family health promotion - ✔✔Refers to the activities that families engage in to
strengthen the family as a unit. Focuses on achieving maximum family well-being
throughout the family life course
✔✔Family resilience factors - ✔✔Positive outlook, spirituality, family member accord,
flexibility, communication, financial management, time together, mutual recreational
interests, routines and rituals, social support
, ✔✔Family health - ✔✔A holistic, dynamic, and complex state that is the process of
negotiating and solving day to day family life events and crises, and providing for a
quality life for its members
✔✔4 philosophies of family health - ✔✔1. Clinical model
2. Role-performance model
3. Adaptive model
4. Eudaimonistic model
✔✔Clinical model - ✔✔The family is healthy if they are free of physical, mental, and
family dysfunction
✔✔Role-performance model - ✔✔Based on the idea that family health is the ability of
family members to perform their routine roles and achieve developmental tasks
✔✔Adaptive model - ✔✔Families are healthy if they have the ability to change and
grow, and possess the capacity to rebound quickly after crisis
✔✔Eudamonistic model - ✔✔Focus on a holistic approach to family care to maximize
the family's well-being and self-actualization in order to support entire family and
individual members in reaching their maximum health potential
✔✔3 reasons philosophies of family health are useful - ✔✔1. They provide frameworks
for understanding the family's level of health
2. They help design interventions to assist family's in obtaining or maintaining good
health
3. It can facilitate organization of family nursing literature and categorize family research
✔✔T/F: Families that tend towards modernization in family health routines are healthier
than families who are highly ritualized - ✔✔True
✔✔Embedded context - ✔✔The ecological environments and nested relationship that
affect the family health over the life course
✔✔The McMaster Model of Family Functioning - ✔✔Identifies the elements of the family
group and the patterns of transactions among family members that have been found to
distinguish between healthy and unhealthy families
✔✔6 domains of functioning of the McMaster Model of Family Functioning - ✔✔1.
Problem solving
2. Communication
3. Roles
4. Affective responsiveness
5. Affective involvement
6. Behavioural Control
