NSG527 FINAL [2026] UPDATED ACTUAL Exam | Question
and Answer | DETAILED SOLUTIONS
What is the purpose of family psychoeducation? -✓✓ - Helps improve knowledge base
of any type of illness
- Provides information about recovery stages
- Empowers problem-solving skills within the family
• What does family psychoeducation NOT do? -✓✓ Does not advocate for any
vocational rehab
• How does family meet the needs of society? -✓✓ Helps mediate between society
expectations and personal needs of the individual client
• How does the family meet the needs of its members? -✓✓ Facilitates ongoing
development of the personality of each individual
• Who is affected by a member of a family having issues/illness? -✓✓ The whole family
• How can the advanced practice nurse positively impact the family when treating a
member of the family with an illness? -✓✓ - Help promote healthy ways
- Identify other health issues other family members have
• What are some major differences in gay and lesbian families? -✓✓ - Developmental
stages can differ
- No one uniform family structure
- Increase in stigma
• What is the significant difference between the 5 types of family nursing practice? -✓✓
The conceptualization of the family
• What are the three levels of prevention? -✓✓ 1. Primary
2. Secondary
3. Tertiary
• What is primary prevention? -✓✓ Health promotion and disease prevention
• What is secondary prevention? -✓✓ Early detection and treatment
• What is tertiary prevention? -✓✓ Managing chronic illness, rehabilitation and
convalescence
• In what two specific areas does the American Nurses Association incorporate the
family as a client? -✓✓ 1. Community health nursing
, 2. Pediatric nursing
• Who believed that the family is the basic conditioning unit? -✓✓ Dorothy Orem
• Who believed in clean air, environmental factors, and home health nursing? -✓✓
Florence Nightingale
• What is stress theory? -✓✓ Emphasizes a family's response to/ how they manage a
crisis, including resources they possess and those that are available to them, as well as
their own perception of the crisis/situation
• What is the developmental approach? -✓✓ The family's progression through different
stages of tasks or issues through the lifecycle
• What is the structural-functional approach? -✓✓ A holistic, comprehensive approach
that incorporates not only the family, but their inner and outer environments/universe
• What is the family lifecycle career? -✓✓ Successive areas of stages of experiences of
a family as a unit
• What is a system? -✓✓ A unit with distinct parts; a family
• What is an open family system? -✓✓ Involves more open boundaries and greater
energy use. Family differentiation does not occur if the system divides into smaller units
• What is system theory? -✓✓ Discusses self-regulation and balance
• What is synonymous with balance? -✓✓ Homeostasis, steady state, and equilibrium
• What is a family system? -✓✓ An open social system that is organized and has a
specific purpose.
It is not a dynamic system that has little area for change
• What is a closed family system? -✓✓ Involves greater control and structure. Rigid,
stagnated, and view change as threatening. View outsiders as not helpful or good.
• What is a random family system? -✓✓ Sets their own rules and schedules
• What is ambivalent attachment? -✓✓ Fear of abandonment, need constant
reassurance, constantly checking to see if their caregiver is around, and do not like to
be separated
and Answer | DETAILED SOLUTIONS
What is the purpose of family psychoeducation? -✓✓ - Helps improve knowledge base
of any type of illness
- Provides information about recovery stages
- Empowers problem-solving skills within the family
• What does family psychoeducation NOT do? -✓✓ Does not advocate for any
vocational rehab
• How does family meet the needs of society? -✓✓ Helps mediate between society
expectations and personal needs of the individual client
• How does the family meet the needs of its members? -✓✓ Facilitates ongoing
development of the personality of each individual
• Who is affected by a member of a family having issues/illness? -✓✓ The whole family
• How can the advanced practice nurse positively impact the family when treating a
member of the family with an illness? -✓✓ - Help promote healthy ways
- Identify other health issues other family members have
• What are some major differences in gay and lesbian families? -✓✓ - Developmental
stages can differ
- No one uniform family structure
- Increase in stigma
• What is the significant difference between the 5 types of family nursing practice? -✓✓
The conceptualization of the family
• What are the three levels of prevention? -✓✓ 1. Primary
2. Secondary
3. Tertiary
• What is primary prevention? -✓✓ Health promotion and disease prevention
• What is secondary prevention? -✓✓ Early detection and treatment
• What is tertiary prevention? -✓✓ Managing chronic illness, rehabilitation and
convalescence
• In what two specific areas does the American Nurses Association incorporate the
family as a client? -✓✓ 1. Community health nursing
, 2. Pediatric nursing
• Who believed that the family is the basic conditioning unit? -✓✓ Dorothy Orem
• Who believed in clean air, environmental factors, and home health nursing? -✓✓
Florence Nightingale
• What is stress theory? -✓✓ Emphasizes a family's response to/ how they manage a
crisis, including resources they possess and those that are available to them, as well as
their own perception of the crisis/situation
• What is the developmental approach? -✓✓ The family's progression through different
stages of tasks or issues through the lifecycle
• What is the structural-functional approach? -✓✓ A holistic, comprehensive approach
that incorporates not only the family, but their inner and outer environments/universe
• What is the family lifecycle career? -✓✓ Successive areas of stages of experiences of
a family as a unit
• What is a system? -✓✓ A unit with distinct parts; a family
• What is an open family system? -✓✓ Involves more open boundaries and greater
energy use. Family differentiation does not occur if the system divides into smaller units
• What is system theory? -✓✓ Discusses self-regulation and balance
• What is synonymous with balance? -✓✓ Homeostasis, steady state, and equilibrium
• What is a family system? -✓✓ An open social system that is organized and has a
specific purpose.
It is not a dynamic system that has little area for change
• What is a closed family system? -✓✓ Involves greater control and structure. Rigid,
stagnated, and view change as threatening. View outsiders as not helpful or good.
• What is a random family system? -✓✓ Sets their own rules and schedules
• What is ambivalent attachment? -✓✓ Fear of abandonment, need constant
reassurance, constantly checking to see if their caregiver is around, and do not like to
be separated
