NURS 5433 FNP II Midterm Exam Review
Family Nursing UTA Questions and Correct
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What is family?
Family life is a universal human experience and no two individuals have
the exact same experience within a family. No universally agreed-upon
definition of family.
Legal Definition of Family
relationships through blood ties, adoption, guardianship or marriage
Biological Definition of Family
Genetic biological networks among and between people. Who is
biologically connected to that family member? Epidemiology,
hereditary disease.
Sociological Definition of Family
Groups of people living together with or without legal or biological ties
I.e Kibbutz
Psychological Definition of Family
Groups with strong emotional ties. People that want to be together are
really connected emotionally so they end up staying with each other.
The textbooks definition of family
Family refers to two or more individuals who depend on one another
for emotional, physical, and economic support. The members of the
family are self-defined. Family is who they say they are, nurses who
,work with families should ask clients who they consider to be members
of their family and should include those persons in health care planning
with the patient's permission.
What is family health?
Family health is a dynamic, changing state of well-being, which includes
the biological, psychological, spiritual, sociological, and cultural factors
of individual family members and the family system.
- an individual's health (on wellness-to-illness contunuum) affects the
entire family
-ensure you are looking at the whole perspective
What is family functioning?
Difficult to describe characteristics of a family that is well-functioning.
Otto (1963) -first scholar to develop psychosocial criteria for assessing
family strengths, and emphasized the need to focus on positive family
attributes instead of pathological approach that accentuated family
problems and weaknesses.
Pratt 1976 -energized family: as one whose structure encourages and
supports individual to develop their capacities for full functioning and
independent action, thus contributing to family health.
Curran's Traits (1985) of a Healthy Family
Communicates and Listens
Fosters table time and conversation
Affirms and supports each member
Teaches respect for others
Develops a sense of trust
Has a sense of play and humor
Has a balance of interaction among members
,Shares leisure time
Abounds to rituals and traditions
Teaches a sense of right and wrong
Shares a religious core
Respects the privacy of others
Values service to others
Admits to problems and seeks help
Family Flexibility
Olson and Gorall (2005) conducted a study and found that the ability of
the family to demonstrate flexibility is related to its ability to alter
family leadership roles, relationships, and rules, including control,
discipline, and role sharing. Functional, healthy families have the ability
to change these factors in response to situations.
What are the dominant patterns of family functioning?
Balanced flexibility and balance cohesion
Family Nursing Competences: Generalist
1. Enhance and promote family health
2. focus nursing practice on family's strengths, the support of family
and individual growth, the improvement of family self-management
abilities, the facilitation of successful life transitions, the improvement
and management of health, and the mobilization of family resources.
3. Demonstrate leadership and systems thinking skills to ensure the
quality of nursing care with families in everyday practice and across
every content.
4. Practice using evidence-based practice
What are the four views of family through a lens?
, Systems
Component
Context
Client
Family as Context
Family centered, family focused,
The first approach to family nursing focuses on the ax and care of an
individual client in which family is context.
Traditional nursing focus, individual is foreground, family background.
The family serves as a context for the individual as either a resource or
stressor to the individual health or illness. This approach is rooted in
the speciality of maternal-child nursing and underlies the philosophy of
many maternity and peds health care settings.
Family as Client
The family nurse is interested in the way all family members are
individually affected by the health event of one family member. In this
approach, all members of the family are in the foreground. The family is
seen as the sum of individual family members, and the focus is
concentrated on each individual. The nurses assesses and provides
healthcare for each person in the family. Typically seen in the
communities where Primary care Physicians, or NPs provide care over
time to all individuals in a given family.
Family as foreground, individual as background
Family as System
The family as a whole as the client; here, the family is viewed as an
interactional system in which the whole is more than the sum of its
parts. In other words, the interactions between family members
become the target for the nursing interventions. The interventions flow
Family Nursing UTA Questions and Correct
Answers Verified Answers Just Released
What is family?
Family life is a universal human experience and no two individuals have
the exact same experience within a family. No universally agreed-upon
definition of family.
Legal Definition of Family
relationships through blood ties, adoption, guardianship or marriage
Biological Definition of Family
Genetic biological networks among and between people. Who is
biologically connected to that family member? Epidemiology,
hereditary disease.
Sociological Definition of Family
Groups of people living together with or without legal or biological ties
I.e Kibbutz
Psychological Definition of Family
Groups with strong emotional ties. People that want to be together are
really connected emotionally so they end up staying with each other.
The textbooks definition of family
Family refers to two or more individuals who depend on one another
for emotional, physical, and economic support. The members of the
family are self-defined. Family is who they say they are, nurses who
,work with families should ask clients who they consider to be members
of their family and should include those persons in health care planning
with the patient's permission.
What is family health?
Family health is a dynamic, changing state of well-being, which includes
the biological, psychological, spiritual, sociological, and cultural factors
of individual family members and the family system.
- an individual's health (on wellness-to-illness contunuum) affects the
entire family
-ensure you are looking at the whole perspective
What is family functioning?
Difficult to describe characteristics of a family that is well-functioning.
Otto (1963) -first scholar to develop psychosocial criteria for assessing
family strengths, and emphasized the need to focus on positive family
attributes instead of pathological approach that accentuated family
problems and weaknesses.
Pratt 1976 -energized family: as one whose structure encourages and
supports individual to develop their capacities for full functioning and
independent action, thus contributing to family health.
Curran's Traits (1985) of a Healthy Family
Communicates and Listens
Fosters table time and conversation
Affirms and supports each member
Teaches respect for others
Develops a sense of trust
Has a sense of play and humor
Has a balance of interaction among members
,Shares leisure time
Abounds to rituals and traditions
Teaches a sense of right and wrong
Shares a religious core
Respects the privacy of others
Values service to others
Admits to problems and seeks help
Family Flexibility
Olson and Gorall (2005) conducted a study and found that the ability of
the family to demonstrate flexibility is related to its ability to alter
family leadership roles, relationships, and rules, including control,
discipline, and role sharing. Functional, healthy families have the ability
to change these factors in response to situations.
What are the dominant patterns of family functioning?
Balanced flexibility and balance cohesion
Family Nursing Competences: Generalist
1. Enhance and promote family health
2. focus nursing practice on family's strengths, the support of family
and individual growth, the improvement of family self-management
abilities, the facilitation of successful life transitions, the improvement
and management of health, and the mobilization of family resources.
3. Demonstrate leadership and systems thinking skills to ensure the
quality of nursing care with families in everyday practice and across
every content.
4. Practice using evidence-based practice
What are the four views of family through a lens?
, Systems
Component
Context
Client
Family as Context
Family centered, family focused,
The first approach to family nursing focuses on the ax and care of an
individual client in which family is context.
Traditional nursing focus, individual is foreground, family background.
The family serves as a context for the individual as either a resource or
stressor to the individual health or illness. This approach is rooted in
the speciality of maternal-child nursing and underlies the philosophy of
many maternity and peds health care settings.
Family as Client
The family nurse is interested in the way all family members are
individually affected by the health event of one family member. In this
approach, all members of the family are in the foreground. The family is
seen as the sum of individual family members, and the focus is
concentrated on each individual. The nurses assesses and provides
healthcare for each person in the family. Typically seen in the
communities where Primary care Physicians, or NPs provide care over
time to all individuals in a given family.
Family as foreground, individual as background
Family as System
The family as a whole as the client; here, the family is viewed as an
interactional system in which the whole is more than the sum of its
parts. In other words, the interactions between family members
become the target for the nursing interventions. The interventions flow
