TEST BANK FOR FAMILY HEALTH CARE NURSING
THEORY, PRACTICE, AND RESEARCH, 6TH EDITION BY
JOANNA ROWE /ALL CHAPTERS 1-17
,CH 1: Family Health Care Nursing: An Introduction
Multiple Choice
1. The nursing attendant is transferring to a care area that focuses on family nursing practice.
What shouldthe nursing attendant realize about this approach to care?
1. Interventions in family care address the future plans for the family.
2. Family members must be present before the implementation of family care.
3. Resources are placed to support an ill family member with the greatest chance for recovery.
4. The nursing attendant and family together define the family and where therapeutic
energy should beplaced.
2. The nursing attendant notes that a hospital client has been previously married and participates
in raising the current spouse’s children from a previous marriage. How should the nursing
attendant document this family type?
1. Extended
2. Cohabitation
3. Nuclear dyad
4. Reconstituted
3. The nursing attendant prepares an in-service program on family nursing for new graduate
employees. Which definition of family is the best one for the nursing attendant to use?
1. Members of a family are self-defined
2. People who share strong emotional ties
3. A family is defined by blood ties, adoption, and marriage
4. A group of people who live together with or without legal or biological ties
4. The nursing attendant prepares to assess a hospital client whose family is being used
as a resource. Whichapproach to family nursing care is the nursing attendant
implementing?
1. Family as hospital client
2. Family as system
3. Family as context
4. Family as component of society
,5. During a home visit the nursing attendant teaches the hospital client and family about actions
to reduce the spreadof infection between the family members. Which role is the nursing
attendant implementing?
1. Counselor
2. Care deliverer
3. Health teacher
4. Family advocate
6. The nursing attendant stays with a hospital client who is having chemotherapy for the first
time until the familyarrives. Which role is the nursing attendant implementing with the
hospital client ?
1. Surrogate
2. Researcher
3. Role model
4. Case manager
7. The spouse of a hospital client with complex care needs is unavailable to attend a care
conference at 2
p.m. What should the nursing attendant do to support family nursing care?
1. Have the hospital client attend in place of the spouse
2. Schedule the conference when the spouse is available
3. Ask the spouse to telephone in during the time of the conference
4. Provide the spouse with outcomes determined during the meeting
8. The nursing attendant observes parents discussing an adolescent’s plans for the weekend
and setting boundaries to which the adolescent agrees. Which function did this family unit
demonstrate?
1. Affective
2. Economic
3. Health care
4. Socialization
9. The adult daughter of an older hospital client is expected to be at the hospital client ’s
bedside yet personalfamily responsibilities are not being completed. Which family
interactional process is the daughter experiencing?
, 1. Role strain
2. Role conflict
3. Role ambiguity
4. Role expectations
Multiple Response:
10. The nursing attendant prepares to assess a family during a home visit. Which traits
should the nursing attendant expect that demonstrate a healthy family? Select all that apply.
1. Develops suspicion among members
2. Exhibits a sense of shared responsibility
3. Admits to and seeks help with problems
4. Enforces participation in rituals and tradition
5. Shares leisure time
Answers:
1. The nursing attendant is transferring to a care area that focuses on family nursing practice.
What shouldthe nursing attendant realize about this approach to care?
Accurate answer:-4
PG 9
Reasoning:-
1. Family care is concerned with the experience of the family over time. It considers both the
history and the future of the family group.
2. The physical absence of family members does not preclude the nursing attendant from
offering familycare.
3. Family nursing is directed at families whose members are both healthy and ill regardless of
the severity of the illness in the family member.
4. The intervention that “family professional nurses must define with the family which persons
constitute thefamily and where they will place their therapeutic energies” is an intervention
used by familyprofessional nurses to provide structure to working with families regardless of
the theoretical underpinning of the nursing approach. This is an enduring idea that supports
the practice of
family nursing.
2. The nursing attendant notes that a hospital client has been previously married and participates
in raising the current spouse’s children from a previous marriage. How should the nursing
attendant document this family type?
Accurate answer:-4
PG 16
THEORY, PRACTICE, AND RESEARCH, 6TH EDITION BY
JOANNA ROWE /ALL CHAPTERS 1-17
,CH 1: Family Health Care Nursing: An Introduction
Multiple Choice
1. The nursing attendant is transferring to a care area that focuses on family nursing practice.
What shouldthe nursing attendant realize about this approach to care?
1. Interventions in family care address the future plans for the family.
2. Family members must be present before the implementation of family care.
3. Resources are placed to support an ill family member with the greatest chance for recovery.
4. The nursing attendant and family together define the family and where therapeutic
energy should beplaced.
2. The nursing attendant notes that a hospital client has been previously married and participates
in raising the current spouse’s children from a previous marriage. How should the nursing
attendant document this family type?
1. Extended
2. Cohabitation
3. Nuclear dyad
4. Reconstituted
3. The nursing attendant prepares an in-service program on family nursing for new graduate
employees. Which definition of family is the best one for the nursing attendant to use?
1. Members of a family are self-defined
2. People who share strong emotional ties
3. A family is defined by blood ties, adoption, and marriage
4. A group of people who live together with or without legal or biological ties
4. The nursing attendant prepares to assess a hospital client whose family is being used
as a resource. Whichapproach to family nursing care is the nursing attendant
implementing?
1. Family as hospital client
2. Family as system
3. Family as context
4. Family as component of society
,5. During a home visit the nursing attendant teaches the hospital client and family about actions
to reduce the spreadof infection between the family members. Which role is the nursing
attendant implementing?
1. Counselor
2. Care deliverer
3. Health teacher
4. Family advocate
6. The nursing attendant stays with a hospital client who is having chemotherapy for the first
time until the familyarrives. Which role is the nursing attendant implementing with the
hospital client ?
1. Surrogate
2. Researcher
3. Role model
4. Case manager
7. The spouse of a hospital client with complex care needs is unavailable to attend a care
conference at 2
p.m. What should the nursing attendant do to support family nursing care?
1. Have the hospital client attend in place of the spouse
2. Schedule the conference when the spouse is available
3. Ask the spouse to telephone in during the time of the conference
4. Provide the spouse with outcomes determined during the meeting
8. The nursing attendant observes parents discussing an adolescent’s plans for the weekend
and setting boundaries to which the adolescent agrees. Which function did this family unit
demonstrate?
1. Affective
2. Economic
3. Health care
4. Socialization
9. The adult daughter of an older hospital client is expected to be at the hospital client ’s
bedside yet personalfamily responsibilities are not being completed. Which family
interactional process is the daughter experiencing?
, 1. Role strain
2. Role conflict
3. Role ambiguity
4. Role expectations
Multiple Response:
10. The nursing attendant prepares to assess a family during a home visit. Which traits
should the nursing attendant expect that demonstrate a healthy family? Select all that apply.
1. Develops suspicion among members
2. Exhibits a sense of shared responsibility
3. Admits to and seeks help with problems
4. Enforces participation in rituals and tradition
5. Shares leisure time
Answers:
1. The nursing attendant is transferring to a care area that focuses on family nursing practice.
What shouldthe nursing attendant realize about this approach to care?
Accurate answer:-4
PG 9
Reasoning:-
1. Family care is concerned with the experience of the family over time. It considers both the
history and the future of the family group.
2. The physical absence of family members does not preclude the nursing attendant from
offering familycare.
3. Family nursing is directed at families whose members are both healthy and ill regardless of
the severity of the illness in the family member.
4. The intervention that “family professional nurses must define with the family which persons
constitute thefamily and where they will place their therapeutic energies” is an intervention
used by familyprofessional nurses to provide structure to working with families regardless of
the theoretical underpinning of the nursing approach. This is an enduring idea that supports
the practice of
family nursing.
2. The nursing attendant notes that a hospital client has been previously married and participates
in raising the current spouse’s children from a previous marriage. How should the nursing
attendant document this family type?
Accurate answer:-4
PG 16
