NURS 3016 STUDY EXAMS GUIDE ALL QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Four Philosophies of Family Health - ✔✔Clinical: No disease
Role-Performance: Can fulfill roles
Adaptive: Can cope and adapt
Eudaimonistic: Holistic well-being and growth
✔✔Clinical Model - ✔✔A family is considered healthy if it is free from physical, mental,
or family dysfunction.
✔✔Role-Performance Model - ✔✔Family health is defined by the ability of family
members to perform their expected roles and successfully 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 - ✔✔Problem
Solving - The family's ability to resolve issues effectively to maintain functioning.
Communication - The clarity, openness, and effectiveness of information exchange
among members.
Roles - The clarity and distribution of responsibilities within the family.
Affective Responsiveness - The ability to experience and express appropriate emotions.
Affective Involvement - The degree of interest, concern, and engagement family
members show toward each other.
Behavioral Control - How the family manages behavior, rules, and boundaries.
✔✔Family Assessment Device (FAD) - ✔✔A self report measure that can be completed
by families and is scored on each of the domains of the McMaster Model of Family
Functioning
✔✔Health promotion behaviours are influenced by: - ✔✔- General influences (family
system patterns, demographic characteristics, biological characteristics)
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Four Philosophies of Family Health - ✔✔Clinical: No disease
Role-Performance: Can fulfill roles
Adaptive: Can cope and adapt
Eudaimonistic: Holistic well-being and growth
✔✔Clinical Model - ✔✔A family is considered healthy if it is free from physical, mental,
or family dysfunction.
✔✔Role-Performance Model - ✔✔Family health is defined by the ability of family
members to perform their expected roles and successfully 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 - ✔✔Problem
Solving - The family's ability to resolve issues effectively to maintain functioning.
Communication - The clarity, openness, and effectiveness of information exchange
among members.
Roles - The clarity and distribution of responsibilities within the family.
Affective Responsiveness - The ability to experience and express appropriate emotions.
Affective Involvement - The degree of interest, concern, and engagement family
members show toward each other.
Behavioral Control - How the family manages behavior, rules, and boundaries.
✔✔Family Assessment Device (FAD) - ✔✔A self report measure that can be completed
by families and is scored on each of the domains of the McMaster Model of Family
Functioning
✔✔Health promotion behaviours are influenced by: - ✔✔- General influences (family
system patterns, demographic characteristics, biological characteristics)
