Shajani, Nurses and Families 7e
Instructor Test Bank, Ch 1
Chapter 1: Family Assessment and Intervention: An Overview
1. The nurse is including the family of a 32-year-old client in her interview. What is the rationale
for including the family of this adult in the interview?
A. The client will become debilitated and need the family to provide care.
B. The client’s illness impacts the entire family.
C. The family will need to support the client as he heals.
D. The family has information the nurse practitioner needs about the client.
Answer:
2. The nurse is explaining the focus of family nursing assessment and intervention to the family
members. She explains that which are the interacting parts of reciprocity?
A. Parents, children, and health-care providers
B. Nurses, physicians, and clients
C. Health, illness, and family
D. Men, women, and children
Answer:
3. The nursing instructor is explaining family systems nursing. Which of these theories is not
synthesized into family systems nursing?
A. Cybernetics
B. Change
C. Family therapy
D. Informatics
Answer:
4. Nurses collaborate with many professionals to care for their clients. Which professional would
be most concerned with the emotional ties within the family?
A. An economist
B. A sociologist
C. A psychologist
D. A psychiatrist
Answer:
, Shajani, Nurses and Families 7e
Instructor Test Bank, Ch 1
5. The nurse has just graduated with a bachelor’s degree in nursing (BSN). Which is the least
accurate statement about her scope of practice?
A. She primarily views the family as a client rather than a context.
B. She is considered a nurse generalist.
C. She focuses on family interaction and reciprocity.
D. She predominately conceptualizes the family as a unit of care.
Answer:
6. The Calgary Family Assessment Model (CFAM) is a multidimensional framework consisting
of three major categories. Which is not one of these categories?
A. Developmental
B. Functional
C. Foundational
D. Structural
Answer:
7. Based on what the nurse knows about the Calgary Family Intervention Model (CFIM), which
of these would be the best response to the family?
A. “Let’s let the client begin first.”
B. “I have much experience in handling family matters of this type.”
C. “That appears to be a great strength in this family.”
D. “This method is rooted in modernism.”
Answer:
8. The client asks the nurse why the nurse uses the term intervention, yet the physician always
uses the term diagnosis. Which is the best explanation of the difference?
A. “Interventions are interactional in nature. They occur in a relationship.”
B. “Intervention is a nursing term, whereas diagnosis is reserved for medicine.”
C. “We are from different disciplines, so we use different vocabulary.”
D. “They mean the same thing.”
Answer:
Instructor Test Bank, Ch 1
Chapter 1: Family Assessment and Intervention: An Overview
1. The nurse is including the family of a 32-year-old client in her interview. What is the rationale
for including the family of this adult in the interview?
A. The client will become debilitated and need the family to provide care.
B. The client’s illness impacts the entire family.
C. The family will need to support the client as he heals.
D. The family has information the nurse practitioner needs about the client.
Answer:
2. The nurse is explaining the focus of family nursing assessment and intervention to the family
members. She explains that which are the interacting parts of reciprocity?
A. Parents, children, and health-care providers
B. Nurses, physicians, and clients
C. Health, illness, and family
D. Men, women, and children
Answer:
3. The nursing instructor is explaining family systems nursing. Which of these theories is not
synthesized into family systems nursing?
A. Cybernetics
B. Change
C. Family therapy
D. Informatics
Answer:
4. Nurses collaborate with many professionals to care for their clients. Which professional would
be most concerned with the emotional ties within the family?
A. An economist
B. A sociologist
C. A psychologist
D. A psychiatrist
Answer:
, Shajani, Nurses and Families 7e
Instructor Test Bank, Ch 1
5. The nurse has just graduated with a bachelor’s degree in nursing (BSN). Which is the least
accurate statement about her scope of practice?
A. She primarily views the family as a client rather than a context.
B. She is considered a nurse generalist.
C. She focuses on family interaction and reciprocity.
D. She predominately conceptualizes the family as a unit of care.
Answer:
6. The Calgary Family Assessment Model (CFAM) is a multidimensional framework consisting
of three major categories. Which is not one of these categories?
A. Developmental
B. Functional
C. Foundational
D. Structural
Answer:
7. Based on what the nurse knows about the Calgary Family Intervention Model (CFIM), which
of these would be the best response to the family?
A. “Let’s let the client begin first.”
B. “I have much experience in handling family matters of this type.”
C. “That appears to be a great strength in this family.”
D. “This method is rooted in modernism.”
Answer:
8. The client asks the nurse why the nurse uses the term intervention, yet the physician always
uses the term diagnosis. Which is the best explanation of the difference?
A. “Interventions are interactional in nature. They occur in a relationship.”
B. “Intervention is a nursing term, whereas diagnosis is reserved for medicine.”
C. “We are from different disciplines, so we use different vocabulary.”
D. “They mean the same thing.”
Answer:
