N480 FAMILY NURSING QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS

Healthy People 2020 overall goal CORRECT ANSWER Focus on determinants of health- a renewed focus on identifying, measuring, tracking, and reducing health disparities through determinants of health approach (ensuring access to health and illness care services) 2020 Global Health Goal CORRECT ANSWER improve public health and strengthen U.S. national security through global disease detection, response, prevention, and control strategies. What is the definition of theory? CORRECT ANSWER Theories are abstract, general ideas to rules and organizations. They contain concepts, relations, and propositions. Show logical relationships between concepts to illustrate patterns such as family cohesion and mental health. They attempt to make sense of complex phenomenon around the world such as domestic violence. Theories help nurses to accumulate and organize evidence into meaningful patterns to develop and test hypotheses or predictions of what the world would look like. What is the definition of family? CORRECT ANSWER What the patient says it is. Book: two or more individuals that depend on one another for emotional, physical, and economic support. *Nurses should ask clients who they consider to be a members of their family Health Teacher Role CORRECT ANSWER Teaches about family illness, wellness, relations, parenting, etc. both formally and informally. Ex. teaching new parents how to care for their infant or teaching newly diagnosed patient. Coordinator, collaborator, liaison Role CORRECT ANSWER Referrals. Coordinates the care that the families receive, collaborating with the family to plan care. Helps the family to access resources (inpatient care, outpatient care, social service, rehab, etc.) Family advocate Role CORRECT ANSWER Nurse empowers family to speak with their own voice or the nurse speaks out for the family. This is also supporting legislators and advocating for family. ex. wearing seatbelts in cars. Deliverer and supervisor of care and technical expert Role CORRECT ANSWER Nurse either delivers or supervises care in various settings. Must be a technical expert in both skills and knowledge. Ex. take care of a child on a respirator in the home setting (but again, can be any setting) Consultant Role CORRECT ANSWER A nurse takes on this role whenever asked or whenever necessary. Consults with agencies to facilitate family centered care. Ex. clinical nurse specialist may be asked to assist family in placing member in facility.