NUR 1018 Exam 4 DCM Final Test
Questions with Accurate Answers
2025/2026 Graded A+.
Nuclear Family - Answer family form that consists of one or both parents and their children
Extended Family - Answer family form that consists of 3 or more generations of a family
sharing the same residence
Concept of Patient Centered care: Dignity and Respect - Answer -Health care practitioners
listen to and honor patient and family perspectives and choices
-Patient and family knowledge, values, beliefs and cultural backgrounds are incorporated into
the planning and delivery of care
Single parent family - Answer Only one parent lives with the child or children
Concept of Patient centered care: Information Sharing - Answer Health care practitioners
communicate and share complete and unbiased information with patients and families in ways
that are affirming and useful. Patients and families receive timely, complete, and accurate
information in order to effectively participate in care and decision-making.
Component of Patient centered care: Participation - Answer Patients and families are
encouraged and supported in participating in care and decision-making at the level they choose.
Component of Patient centered care: Collaboration - Answer Patients, families, health-care
practitioners, and health care leaders collaborate in policy and program development,
implementation and evaluations; in research; in facility design; and in professional education, as
well as in the delivery of care
intergenerational family - Answer grandparents, parents, kids
Heterosexual cohabiting family - Answer parents not married
gay and lesbian families - Answer Family group involving same-sex parents and children, such
as those from a previous heterosexual relationship.
Cultural Diversity - Answer requires recognizing not only the diverse ethnic, cultural, and
religious backgrounds of patients but also the differences and similarities within the same
family.
,Discharge Planning - Answer requires recognizing not only the diverse ethnic, cultural, and
religious backgrounds of patients but also the differences and similarities within the same
family.
Threats and Concerns Facing the Family
Changing Economic Status - Answer Two-income families have become the norm, but the
income have not increased. Families at the lower end of the income scale have been particularly
affected, and single-parent families are especially vulnerable.
Homelessness - Answer everely affects the functioning, health, and well-being of the family
and its members. Children of homeless families are often in fair or poor health and have higher
rates of asthma, ear infections, stomach problems, and mental illness.
Threats and Concerns Facing the Family
Domestic Violence - Answer Emotional, physical, and sexual abuse occurs toward spouses,
children, and older adults across all social classes. Factors are complex and may include stress,
poverty, social isolation, psychopathology, and learned family behavior.
Threats and Concerns facing the family
Acute and or Chronic Illness - Answer Family members are left in waiting rooms to
anticipate information about their loved one.
Family patterns and interactions, social activities, work and household schedules; economic
resources must be reorganized around the illness or disability.
Family Life-Cycle Stage: Unattached young adult - Answer accepting parent-offspring
separation
Family Life-Cycle Stage:
Newly married couple - Answer Committing to new system
Family Life-Cycle Stage:
Family with Young Children - Answer Accepting new generation of members into system
Family Life-Cycle Stage:
Family with adolescents - Answer Increasing flexibility of family boundaries to include
children's independence
,Family Life-Cycle Stage:
Family with young adults - Answer maintaining flexibility and new opportunities
Family Life-Cycle Stage:
Family in later life - Answer accepting shifting of generational roles
5 processes of family life - Answer 1. interactive
2. developmental
3. coping
4. integrity
5. health
Interactive Process of Family Life - Answer relationships, communication, nurturing, roles
Developmental Process of Family Life - Answer development of health issue, transitions,
family stage completion or progression
Coping Process of Family Life - Answer problem solving, stressors, family coping strategies
Integrity Process of Family Life - Answer Family values, beliefs, rituals, spirituality
Health Process of Family Life - Answer health history of family, illness stressors, health
management of family
Family Approach to the nursing process - Answer 1. The nurse views all individuals with the
family context
2. Families have an impact on individuals
3. Individuals have and impact on families
A comprehensive, culturally sensitive family assessment is critical in order to - Answer 1.
Forming an understanding of family life
2. Current changes in family life
3. Overall goals and expectations
4. Planning family-centered care
, Family Caregiving - Answer family process that occurs in response to an illness and
encompasses multiple cognitive, behavioral, and interpersonal processes.
Single adult living alone - Answer bachelor or bachelorette
Special Considerations for Infant-Adolescent Assessment - Answer - Children are not little
adults
- Head-to-toe approach may not work
- Strong assessment skills
- Firm, but caring approach
- Try doing the nutrition history first to establish rapport
- Allow child to touch medical equipment
- Use words child understands
- Ask child about chief complaint, Ask child to touch where it hurts
- Ascertain relationship of child to the adult
- Call child by name
Childfree family: - Answer no kids
Physical, Cognitive, and Psychosocial Changes in Infants - Answer - Increase in height and
weight
- Development of sight, hearing, and fine- and gross-motor movements
- Development of vision, hearing and touch
- Language and memory development
- Separation of self from others
- Purposeful smiling
You are caring for a 5-year-old who is hospitalized. To render age-specific care, an action you can
take would be to:
A. Allow the child to handle medical equipment
B. Respond immediately to the child's every need
C. Tell the child to be good
D. Rationalize the child't complaint as part of the developmental stage - Answer A. Allow the
child to handle medical equipment
Physical Changes in Adolescents (Four areas) - Answer 1. Increased rate of growth
Questions with Accurate Answers
2025/2026 Graded A+.
Nuclear Family - Answer family form that consists of one or both parents and their children
Extended Family - Answer family form that consists of 3 or more generations of a family
sharing the same residence
Concept of Patient Centered care: Dignity and Respect - Answer -Health care practitioners
listen to and honor patient and family perspectives and choices
-Patient and family knowledge, values, beliefs and cultural backgrounds are incorporated into
the planning and delivery of care
Single parent family - Answer Only one parent lives with the child or children
Concept of Patient centered care: Information Sharing - Answer Health care practitioners
communicate and share complete and unbiased information with patients and families in ways
that are affirming and useful. Patients and families receive timely, complete, and accurate
information in order to effectively participate in care and decision-making.
Component of Patient centered care: Participation - Answer Patients and families are
encouraged and supported in participating in care and decision-making at the level they choose.
Component of Patient centered care: Collaboration - Answer Patients, families, health-care
practitioners, and health care leaders collaborate in policy and program development,
implementation and evaluations; in research; in facility design; and in professional education, as
well as in the delivery of care
intergenerational family - Answer grandparents, parents, kids
Heterosexual cohabiting family - Answer parents not married
gay and lesbian families - Answer Family group involving same-sex parents and children, such
as those from a previous heterosexual relationship.
Cultural Diversity - Answer requires recognizing not only the diverse ethnic, cultural, and
religious backgrounds of patients but also the differences and similarities within the same
family.
,Discharge Planning - Answer requires recognizing not only the diverse ethnic, cultural, and
religious backgrounds of patients but also the differences and similarities within the same
family.
Threats and Concerns Facing the Family
Changing Economic Status - Answer Two-income families have become the norm, but the
income have not increased. Families at the lower end of the income scale have been particularly
affected, and single-parent families are especially vulnerable.
Homelessness - Answer everely affects the functioning, health, and well-being of the family
and its members. Children of homeless families are often in fair or poor health and have higher
rates of asthma, ear infections, stomach problems, and mental illness.
Threats and Concerns Facing the Family
Domestic Violence - Answer Emotional, physical, and sexual abuse occurs toward spouses,
children, and older adults across all social classes. Factors are complex and may include stress,
poverty, social isolation, psychopathology, and learned family behavior.
Threats and Concerns facing the family
Acute and or Chronic Illness - Answer Family members are left in waiting rooms to
anticipate information about their loved one.
Family patterns and interactions, social activities, work and household schedules; economic
resources must be reorganized around the illness or disability.
Family Life-Cycle Stage: Unattached young adult - Answer accepting parent-offspring
separation
Family Life-Cycle Stage:
Newly married couple - Answer Committing to new system
Family Life-Cycle Stage:
Family with Young Children - Answer Accepting new generation of members into system
Family Life-Cycle Stage:
Family with adolescents - Answer Increasing flexibility of family boundaries to include
children's independence
,Family Life-Cycle Stage:
Family with young adults - Answer maintaining flexibility and new opportunities
Family Life-Cycle Stage:
Family in later life - Answer accepting shifting of generational roles
5 processes of family life - Answer 1. interactive
2. developmental
3. coping
4. integrity
5. health
Interactive Process of Family Life - Answer relationships, communication, nurturing, roles
Developmental Process of Family Life - Answer development of health issue, transitions,
family stage completion or progression
Coping Process of Family Life - Answer problem solving, stressors, family coping strategies
Integrity Process of Family Life - Answer Family values, beliefs, rituals, spirituality
Health Process of Family Life - Answer health history of family, illness stressors, health
management of family
Family Approach to the nursing process - Answer 1. The nurse views all individuals with the
family context
2. Families have an impact on individuals
3. Individuals have and impact on families
A comprehensive, culturally sensitive family assessment is critical in order to - Answer 1.
Forming an understanding of family life
2. Current changes in family life
3. Overall goals and expectations
4. Planning family-centered care
, Family Caregiving - Answer family process that occurs in response to an illness and
encompasses multiple cognitive, behavioral, and interpersonal processes.
Single adult living alone - Answer bachelor or bachelorette
Special Considerations for Infant-Adolescent Assessment - Answer - Children are not little
adults
- Head-to-toe approach may not work
- Strong assessment skills
- Firm, but caring approach
- Try doing the nutrition history first to establish rapport
- Allow child to touch medical equipment
- Use words child understands
- Ask child about chief complaint, Ask child to touch where it hurts
- Ascertain relationship of child to the adult
- Call child by name
Childfree family: - Answer no kids
Physical, Cognitive, and Psychosocial Changes in Infants - Answer - Increase in height and
weight
- Development of sight, hearing, and fine- and gross-motor movements
- Development of vision, hearing and touch
- Language and memory development
- Separation of self from others
- Purposeful smiling
You are caring for a 5-year-old who is hospitalized. To render age-specific care, an action you can
take would be to:
A. Allow the child to handle medical equipment
B. Respond immediately to the child's every need
C. Tell the child to be good
D. Rationalize the child't complaint as part of the developmental stage - Answer A. Allow the
child to handle medical equipment
Physical Changes in Adolescents (Four areas) - Answer 1. Increased rate of growth
