NUR 121 Exam 2 (100% Verified Solutions)

Definition of Family correct answers U.S census Bureau: " a group of people related by blood, marriage or adoption living together." This def. is limited because some families are made up of unrelated couples and at certain points in time, not all family members may live together. Pillitarie Def.: "two or more ppl who love in the same household, share a common emotional bond and perform certain interrelated social tasks." Changing Patterns in Family Life correct answers - Increased mobility of families - Increased in both parents working outside the home -Increase in one-parent families - Increase in child-rearing responsibilities -Caring for children and parents -Children returning home after college to live with parents. Role of the nurse in child health correct answers -The promotional and maintenance of optimal family health to ensure cycles of optimal childbearing and childrearing. - Support families in their choices. -Set aside your own feelings and what you would want for your child. -Since families are smaller than in previous decades nurses must fulfill these roles in times of crisis more than ever. Disadvantages to single family homes correct answers Single parents are increasing in numbers. - A single parent may have fewer financial resources. - Nurses need to inform parents of care options as well as provide teaching and information. Women working outside the home correct answers -An increasing number of mothers work outside the home. - Health care must be schedudle at times a working parent can bring a child for care. -Problems of latch-key (children who go home to an empty house and take care of themselves until a parent comes home from work.) -Child Care Centers Families that are more mobile correct answers -There is an increase in the number of homeless woman and children. -This requires good interviewing to establish a health database. -Education for health monitoring. Abuse correct answers - Abuse is more common -Screening for abuse (looking for scars, bruises or multiple fractures at different points of healing. Also, child withdrawing and parental emotional rxn's that are not consistent w/what the parents are saying happened. Child Health correct answers - Families are more conscious of health. -Health education should be a major role. - Provide accurate websites and places where parent's can get decent information.