Who should a nurse consider as family?
1. Parents and their children
2. People related by marriage, birth, or adoption
3. The nuclear family and aunts, uncles, grandparents, and cousins
4. A set of relationships that the patient identifies as family - ANSWER The correct answer is 4. The nurse ...
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Who should a nurse consider as family?
1. Parents and their children
2. People related by marriage, birth, or adoption
3. The nuclear family and aunts, uncles, grandparents, and cousins
4. A set of relationships that the patient identifies as family - ANSWER The correct answer is 4. The nurse must think of family as defined by each individual. In other words, the nurse can think of the family as a set of relationships that the patient identifies as family or as a network of individuals who influence each other's lives, whether the ties are biological or legal.
2. The patient is remarried, and her two children from a previous marriage live in the same household. Her husband's children visit on the weekend. This is an example of
which form of family configuration?
1. A nuclear family
2. A blended family
3. An extended family
4. An alternative family - ANSWER The correct answer is 2. The blended family is formed when both parents bring children from previous relationships into a new, joint
living situation or when children from the current union and children from previous unions are living together.
4. What are two factors that contribute to the long-term health of a family?
1. Structure and function
2. Caregiving and reciprocity
3. Hardiness and resiliency
4. Context and system - ANSWER The correct answer is 3. Health promotion researchers have focused on the stress-moderating effect of hardiness and resiliency as factors that contribute to long-term health. Family hardiness comprises the internal strengths and durability of the family unit. Family resiliency is the ability to cope with expected and unexpected stressors.
5. What does the nurse focus on when viewing the family as patient?
1. Health and development of an individual member existing within a specific environment
2. Family process and relationships
3. Family relational and transactional concepts 4. Family within a system - ANSWER The correct answer is 2. When the family as patient is the approach, the nurse focuses on the entire family, its processes, and relationships (e.g., parenting or family caregiving).
6. What does asking a patient "Who is in your family?" help the nurse assess?
1. Internal structure
2. External structure
3. Context
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