NSG 527 ACTUAL EVALUATION EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS MARKED A+
✔✔Role of the Family Nurse-Functions-Primary prevention - ✔✔Health promotion and
disease prevention
Most exciting role for the family nurse
Teach families to take responsibility for health and attain health goals by enjoying a
healthy lifestyle?Type of prevention?
✔✔Role of the Family Nurse-Functions- Secondary prevention - ✔✔Conduct screening
assessments
Make referrals
Determine patterns of dysfunction
Health teaching?
✔✔Role of the Family Nurse-Functions- Tertiary Prevention - ✔✔Provide support to
families in the rehabilitation process.
Case manager, advocate, teacher and counselor?
✔✔Role of the Family Nurse-Challenges-Primary prevention - ✔✔Monetary/lack of
financial resources
Attitudes of health care providers
Health care professional as poor role models
Environmental hazards
Lack of health knowledge in patients
Access to healthcare
Education
Employment?
✔✔Role of the Family Nurse-Challenges-Secondary prevention - ✔✔Denial of health
issues
Maladaptation of family members—lack of coping skills
Dysfunction of communications?
✔✔Role of the Family Nurse-Challenges-Tertiary Prevention? - ✔✔Disability and
chronic disease?
✔✔Considerations regarding LGBT families? - ✔✔Skills for working with non-traditional
families are important. Awareness that families with same sex partnerships often do not
have normative structure, suffer from greater stigmatization, and have different
developmental stages is essential.
✔✔Nightingale's Environmental Model? - ✔✔Did not present a theory of nursing or
family nursing
Emphasized the presence of environmental factors in health and wellness
, Nurses care for the whole family unit in the home environment
✔✔King's Theory of Goal Attainment? - ✔✔Included family-as-context
Collaboratively the nurse and family members identify complete assessment to
determine goals and a plan of care
The family unit provides socialization and establishes norms of behavior across the life
cycle.
✔✔Roy's Adaptation Model? - ✔✔Family is a unit of analysis, in the same context as
the individual
The family unit is adaptive and interacts with the external environment and internal and
external stimuli.
✔✔Neumann's Health System's Model? - ✔✔The client is an open system where family
is defined
Family is comprised of subsystems with relationships among the family members
The ability to maintain wellness when exposed to stressors occurs through a series of
exchanges in the open system of the model. Appropriate model for community-based
health care.
✔✔Orem's Self-Care Model? - ✔✔The family unit needs to sustain self-care
Nursing works with individuals to achieve self-care in the family unit; the family unit is
not the direct receiver of the health care services.
Self-care of the family can incorporate health beliefs of the family
✔✔Rogers's Science of Unitary Human Beings? - ✔✔A family has energy fields that
respond to the environment similar to individuals.
Families have stages of development and progress in one direction
Permeability of boundaries determines the degree of responsiveness required from
environmental input
✔✔Newman's Expanding Consciousness Model? - ✔✔Expansion of consciousness
defines health.
Individuals move unidirectionally to expand consciousness and allow this inside and
outside of the family unit; can incorporate the family with community energy fields.
As the individual of a family moves towards consciousness, he/she can explain the
internal dynamics of the family.
✔✔APN working with the family- Role of Advanced Practice Nurse(APN) - ✔✔•
Promoting the health of one(sick individual) can improve the health of all(family)
• Primary care providers and are at the forefront of providing preventative care to the
public.
• Help to discover health problems of other family members
• Able to identify level of prevention: Primary secondary Tertiary
ANSWERS MARKED A+
✔✔Role of the Family Nurse-Functions-Primary prevention - ✔✔Health promotion and
disease prevention
Most exciting role for the family nurse
Teach families to take responsibility for health and attain health goals by enjoying a
healthy lifestyle?Type of prevention?
✔✔Role of the Family Nurse-Functions- Secondary prevention - ✔✔Conduct screening
assessments
Make referrals
Determine patterns of dysfunction
Health teaching?
✔✔Role of the Family Nurse-Functions- Tertiary Prevention - ✔✔Provide support to
families in the rehabilitation process.
Case manager, advocate, teacher and counselor?
✔✔Role of the Family Nurse-Challenges-Primary prevention - ✔✔Monetary/lack of
financial resources
Attitudes of health care providers
Health care professional as poor role models
Environmental hazards
Lack of health knowledge in patients
Access to healthcare
Education
Employment?
✔✔Role of the Family Nurse-Challenges-Secondary prevention - ✔✔Denial of health
issues
Maladaptation of family members—lack of coping skills
Dysfunction of communications?
✔✔Role of the Family Nurse-Challenges-Tertiary Prevention? - ✔✔Disability and
chronic disease?
✔✔Considerations regarding LGBT families? - ✔✔Skills for working with non-traditional
families are important. Awareness that families with same sex partnerships often do not
have normative structure, suffer from greater stigmatization, and have different
developmental stages is essential.
✔✔Nightingale's Environmental Model? - ✔✔Did not present a theory of nursing or
family nursing
Emphasized the presence of environmental factors in health and wellness
, Nurses care for the whole family unit in the home environment
✔✔King's Theory of Goal Attainment? - ✔✔Included family-as-context
Collaboratively the nurse and family members identify complete assessment to
determine goals and a plan of care
The family unit provides socialization and establishes norms of behavior across the life
cycle.
✔✔Roy's Adaptation Model? - ✔✔Family is a unit of analysis, in the same context as
the individual
The family unit is adaptive and interacts with the external environment and internal and
external stimuli.
✔✔Neumann's Health System's Model? - ✔✔The client is an open system where family
is defined
Family is comprised of subsystems with relationships among the family members
The ability to maintain wellness when exposed to stressors occurs through a series of
exchanges in the open system of the model. Appropriate model for community-based
health care.
✔✔Orem's Self-Care Model? - ✔✔The family unit needs to sustain self-care
Nursing works with individuals to achieve self-care in the family unit; the family unit is
not the direct receiver of the health care services.
Self-care of the family can incorporate health beliefs of the family
✔✔Rogers's Science of Unitary Human Beings? - ✔✔A family has energy fields that
respond to the environment similar to individuals.
Families have stages of development and progress in one direction
Permeability of boundaries determines the degree of responsiveness required from
environmental input
✔✔Newman's Expanding Consciousness Model? - ✔✔Expansion of consciousness
defines health.
Individuals move unidirectionally to expand consciousness and allow this inside and
outside of the family unit; can incorporate the family with community energy fields.
As the individual of a family moves towards consciousness, he/she can explain the
internal dynamics of the family.
✔✔APN working with the family- Role of Advanced Practice Nurse(APN) - ✔✔•
Promoting the health of one(sick individual) can improve the health of all(family)
• Primary care providers and are at the forefront of providing preventative care to the
public.
• Help to discover health problems of other family members
• Able to identify level of prevention: Primary secondary Tertiary
