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NURS246 - exam 2 Questions and Answers
(Expert Solutions)
Q: Childbearing family nursing, 🗹🗹: consideration and inclusion of the family in care
from preconception to the postpartum period
could include foster care/adoption, rape, sexuality, etc.
Q: Family systems theory, 🗹🗹: all parts of the system are interconnected, the whole
is more than the sum of the parts, system can be further organized into subsystems
Q: family developmental and life cycle theory, 🗹🗹: process of developing over time,
predictable life circumstances and family interactions
sequential
Q: 9 stages of family developmental and life cycle theory, 🗹🗹: 1. arranging space for
the child
2. financing childbearing and child rearing
3. assuming mutual responsibility for children and nurturing
4. facilitating role learning of family members
5. adjusting to changed communication patterns
6. planning for subsequent children
7. realigning intergenerational patterns
8. maintaining family members' motivation and morale
9. establishing family rituals and routines
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Q: infertility, 🗹🗹: failure to achieve a successful pregnancy after 12 months or more
of appropriate intercourse or insemination
takes a toll on a relationship, family stressor
Q: adoption, 🗹🗹: alternatives for couples to have a child from infertility, LQBTQ+,
transcultural families
family stressor
Q: international adoption, 🗹🗹: takes 1-4 years, depending on country of origin,
limited parental info available
Q: public domestic adoption, 🗹🗹: takes 2-7 years, difficult and lengthy, bureaucratic,
costly (foster care)
Q: private domestic adoption, 🗹🗹: can be anonymous to open, important to seek
legal counsel involving everyone (biological and adoption parents)
biological parents can change their mind, can pick a baby (think lifetime movie)
Q: perinatal loss, 🗹🗹: anything regarding losing a baby (miscarriage, stillbirth, born
and pass away shortly after, loss of anticipated "normal" baby due to disability)
DIFFICULT time for family, allow grief, give them time
pregnancy following increases psychological distress even if the baby is born
Q: family nursing of postpartum families
feeding management, 🗹🗹: competence to successful feeding
breast vs bottle
social development when holding and feeding the baby
Q: family nursing of postpartum families
NURS246 - exam 2 Questions and Answers
(Expert Solutions)
Q: Childbearing family nursing, 🗹🗹: consideration and inclusion of the family in care
from preconception to the postpartum period
could include foster care/adoption, rape, sexuality, etc.
Q: Family systems theory, 🗹🗹: all parts of the system are interconnected, the whole
is more than the sum of the parts, system can be further organized into subsystems
Q: family developmental and life cycle theory, 🗹🗹: process of developing over time,
predictable life circumstances and family interactions
sequential
Q: 9 stages of family developmental and life cycle theory, 🗹🗹: 1. arranging space for
the child
2. financing childbearing and child rearing
3. assuming mutual responsibility for children and nurturing
4. facilitating role learning of family members
5. adjusting to changed communication patterns
6. planning for subsequent children
7. realigning intergenerational patterns
8. maintaining family members' motivation and morale
9. establishing family rituals and routines
, Page | 2
Q: infertility, 🗹🗹: failure to achieve a successful pregnancy after 12 months or more
of appropriate intercourse or insemination
takes a toll on a relationship, family stressor
Q: adoption, 🗹🗹: alternatives for couples to have a child from infertility, LQBTQ+,
transcultural families
family stressor
Q: international adoption, 🗹🗹: takes 1-4 years, depending on country of origin,
limited parental info available
Q: public domestic adoption, 🗹🗹: takes 2-7 years, difficult and lengthy, bureaucratic,
costly (foster care)
Q: private domestic adoption, 🗹🗹: can be anonymous to open, important to seek
legal counsel involving everyone (biological and adoption parents)
biological parents can change their mind, can pick a baby (think lifetime movie)
Q: perinatal loss, 🗹🗹: anything regarding losing a baby (miscarriage, stillbirth, born
and pass away shortly after, loss of anticipated "normal" baby due to disability)
DIFFICULT time for family, allow grief, give them time
pregnancy following increases psychological distress even if the baby is born
Q: family nursing of postpartum families
feeding management, 🗹🗹: competence to successful feeding
breast vs bottle
social development when holding and feeding the baby
Q: family nursing of postpartum families
