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 professional nurse is transferring to a care area that focuses on family nursing practice.
What shouldthe professional nurse 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 professional nurse and family together define the family and where therapeutic
energy should beplaced.
2. The professional nurse notes that a patient has been previously married and participates in
raising the current spouse’s children from a previous marriage. How should the professional
nurse document this family type?
1. Extended
2. Cohabitation
3. Nuclear dyad
4. Reconstituted
3. The professional nurse prepares an in-service program on family nursing for new
graduate employees. Which definition of family is the best one for the professional nurse 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 professional nurse prepares to assess a patient whose family is being used as a
resource. Whichapproach to family nursing care is the professional nurse
implementing?
1. Family as patient
2. Family as system
3. Family as context
4. Family as component of society
,5. During a home visit the professional nurse teaches the patient and family about actions to
reduce the spreadof infection between the family members. Which role is the professional nurse
implementing?
1. Counselor
2. Care deliverer
3. Health teacher
4. Family advocate
6. The professional nurse stays with a patient who is having chemotherapy for the first time
until the familyarrives. Which role is the professional nurse implementing with the patient?
1. Surrogate
2. Researcher
3. Role model
4. Case manager
7. The spouse of a patient with complex care needs is unavailable to attend a care conference at 2
p.m. What should the professional nurse do to support family nursing care?
1. Have the patient 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 professional nurse 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 patient is expected to be at the patient’s bedside yet personal
family 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 professional nurse prepares to assess a family during a home visit. Which traits
should the professional nurseexpect 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 professional nurse is transferring to a care area that focuses on family nursing practice.
What shouldthe professional nurse realize about this approach to care?
Right Answer:- 4
Page: 9
Rationale:
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 professional nurse 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 professional nurse notes that a patient has been previously married and participates in
raising the current spouse’s children from a previous marriage. How should the professional
nurse document this family type?
Right Answer:- 4
Page: 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 professional nurse is transferring to a care area that focuses on family nursing practice.
What shouldthe professional nurse 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 professional nurse and family together define the family and where therapeutic
energy should beplaced.
2. The professional nurse notes that a patient has been previously married and participates in
raising the current spouse’s children from a previous marriage. How should the professional
nurse document this family type?
1. Extended
2. Cohabitation
3. Nuclear dyad
4. Reconstituted
3. The professional nurse prepares an in-service program on family nursing for new
graduate employees. Which definition of family is the best one for the professional nurse 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 professional nurse prepares to assess a patient whose family is being used as a
resource. Whichapproach to family nursing care is the professional nurse
implementing?
1. Family as patient
2. Family as system
3. Family as context
4. Family as component of society
,5. During a home visit the professional nurse teaches the patient and family about actions to
reduce the spreadof infection between the family members. Which role is the professional nurse
implementing?
1. Counselor
2. Care deliverer
3. Health teacher
4. Family advocate
6. The professional nurse stays with a patient who is having chemotherapy for the first time
until the familyarrives. Which role is the professional nurse implementing with the patient?
1. Surrogate
2. Researcher
3. Role model
4. Case manager
7. The spouse of a patient with complex care needs is unavailable to attend a care conference at 2
p.m. What should the professional nurse do to support family nursing care?
1. Have the patient 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 professional nurse 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 patient is expected to be at the patient’s bedside yet personal
family 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 professional nurse prepares to assess a family during a home visit. Which traits
should the professional nurseexpect 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 professional nurse is transferring to a care area that focuses on family nursing practice.
What shouldthe professional nurse realize about this approach to care?
Right Answer:- 4
Page: 9
Rationale:
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 professional nurse 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 professional nurse notes that a patient has been previously married and participates in
raising the current spouse’s children from a previous marriage. How should the professional
nurse document this family type?
Right Answer:- 4
Page: 16
