,TESTBANK FOR Family Health Care Nursing Theory, Practice, and Research
8th Edition Melissa Robinson
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Family Health Care Nursing, 8e 1-1
Chapter 1: Family Health Care Nursing: An Introduction
Multiple Choice:
1. The nurse is transferring to a care area that focuses on family nursing practice. What should
the 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 a family member experiencing illness with the greatest
chance for recovery.
4. The nurse and family together define the family and where therapeutic energy should
be placed.
2. The nurse notes that a client has been previously married and participates in raising the current
spouse’s children from a previous marriage. How should the nurse document this family type?
1. Extended
2. Cohabitation
3. Nuclear dyad
4. Blended
3. The nurse prepares an in-service program on family nursing for new graduate employees.
Which definition of family is the best one for the nurse to use?
1. Members of a family are self-defined.
2. People who share strong emotional ties are a family.
3. A family is defined by blood ties, adoption, and marriage.
4. A family is a group of people who live together with or without legal or biological ties.
4. The nurse prepares to assess a client whose family is being used as a resource. Which
approach to family nursing care is the nurse implementing?
1. Family as client
2. Family as system
3. Family as context
4. Family as component of society
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Family Health Care Nursing, 8e 1-2
5. During a home visit the nurse teaches the client and family about actions to reduce the spread
of infection among the family members. Which role is the nurse implementing?
1. Counselor
2. Care deliverer
3. Health teacher
4. Family advocate
6. The nurse is caring for a patient whose family is experiencing emotional distress following a
new cancer diagnosis. According to the principles of effective nurse–family communication,
which action best demonstrates the nurse’s role?
1. Explain the diagnosis in medical terms to assert clinical expertise.
2. Encourage the family to avoid discussing emotional topics to maintain focus on the
treatment.
3. Listen actively and summarize the family’s concerns to promote mutual understanding.
4. Refer the family to another provider to avoid influencing their decisions.
7. The spouse of a client with complex care needs is unavailable to attend a care conference at 2
p.m. What should the nurse do to support family nursing care?
1. Have the client 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 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
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Family Health Care Nursing, 8e 1-3
9. The adult daughter of an older client is expected to be at the client’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 nurse prepares to assess a family during a home visit. Which traits should the nurse
expect 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
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Family Health Care Nursing, 8e 1-4
Answers:
1. The nurse is transferring to a care area that focuses on family nursing practice. What should
the nurse realize about this approach to care?
Ans: 4
Feedback
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 nurse from offering
family care.
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 nurses must define with the family which persons
constitute the family and where they will place their therapeutic energies” is used
by family 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 nurse notes that a client has been previously married and participates in raising the current
spouse’s children from a previous marriage. How should the nurse document this family type?
Ans: 4
Feedback
1. An extended family is defined as two or more adult generations and one that
includes grandparents and grandchildren living in the same household.
2. A cohabitation family type is defined as an unmarried couple sharing a household
who are involved in an emotional and/or sexually intimate relationship.
3. A nuclear dyad is defined as a married couple with no children.
4. A blended or reconstituted family type is defined as an arrangement in which one
or more of the parents was previously married and brings children from the
previous marriage into the current marriage.
3. The nurse prepares an in-service program on family nursing for new graduate employees.
Which definition of family is the best one for the nurse to use?
,Robinson
Family Health Care Nursing, 8e 1-5
Ans: 1
Feedback
1. The definition of family that is most inclusive and takes the individual family members
into consideration is that the members of a family are self-defined.
2. The definition that a family is made up of people who share strong emotional ties is a
psychological definition of a family.
3. The definition that a family is defined by blood ties, adoption, and marriage is a legal
definition of a family.
4. The definition that a family is a group of people who live together with or without legal
or biological ties is a sociological definition of a family.
4. The nurse prepares to assess a client whose family is being used as a resource. Which
approach to family nursing care is the nurse implementing?
Ans: 3
Feedback
1. The second approach to family nursing care centers on the assessment of all family
members. The family nurse is interested in the way all the 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.
2. The third approach to care views the family as a system. The focus in this approach is
on the family as the client; 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.
3. The first approach to family nursing care focuses on the assessment and care of an
individual client in which the family is the context. This is the traditional nursing focus,
in which the individual is foreground and the family is background. The family serves
as context for the individual as either a resource or a stressor to the individual’s health
and illness.
4. The fourth approach to care looks at the family as a component of society, in which the
family is viewed as one of many institutions in society, similar to health, educational,
religious, or economic institutions. The family is a basic or primary unit of society, and
it is a part of the larger system of society.
,Robinson
Family Health Care Nursing, 8e 1-6
5. During a home visit the nurse teaches the client and family about actions to reduce the spread
of infection among the family members. Which role is the nurse implementing?
Ans: 3
Feedback
1. As a counselor, the family nurse has a therapeutic role in helping individuals and
families solve problems or change behavior.
2. As a care deliverer, the family nurse either delivers or supervises the care that families
receive in various settings. To do this, the nurse must be a technical expert in terms of
both knowledge and skill.
3. The family nurse teaches about family wellness, illness, relations, and parenting.
4. As an advocate the family nurse advocates for families and empowers family members
to speak with their own voices, or the nurse speaks out for the family.
6. The nurse is caring for a patient whose family is experiencing emotional distress following a
new cancer diagnosis. According to the principles of effective nurse–family communication,
which action best demonstrates the nurse’s role?
Ans: 3
Feedback
1. Asserting clinical expertise does not build understanding as the nurse’s communication
role.
2. The nurse should provide emotional support and help families cope during stress or
crisis, not avoid it.
3. This action aligns with the nurse’s role in modeling communications, supporting
understanding, and facilitating family-centered care.
4. The nurse should not withdraw from or defer communication, but be an active
facilitator of communication in order to engage the family.
7. The spouse of a client with complex care needs is unavailable to attend a care conference at 2
p.m. What should the nurse do to support family nursing care?
Ans: 2
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Family Health Care Nursing, 8e 1-7
Feedback
1. It is inappropriate to expect an ill client to attend a care conference.
2. One obstacle to family nursing practice is the hours for care. Because the spouse is not
available during the scheduled meeting, the approach to overcome this obstacle is to
schedule the meeting when the spouse can attend.
3. The spouse is not available. Telephoning in for the conference is not appropriate.
4. Providing the spouse with the outcomes of the meeting does not take the family’s needs
into consideration and violates the purpose of the meeting.
8. The 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?
Ans: 1
Feedback
1. The affective function, one of the basic functions of family, is essential for creating a
harmonious and stable environment, and optimal for healthy child development and for
the satisfaction of all family members. Affective function has to do with the ways
family members relate to one another and those outside the immediate family
boundaries. Well-functioning families can maintain a consistent level of involvement
with one another, yet at the same time not become too involved in each other’s lives.
2. The economic function of the family is focused on providing the necessities of food,
clothing, and shelter for the family members.
3. The health care function of the family is achieved when the family learns how to
maintain, protect, and restore health.
4. The family is the first and one of the most influential settings for socialization. Families
are the primary source of individual development and the primary setting in which
children begin to acquire the beliefs, attitudes, values, and behaviors considered
appropriate to society. This situation does not demonstrate family socialization.
9. The adult daughter of an older client is expected to be at the client’s bedside, yet personal
family responsibilities are not being completed. Which family interactional process is the
daughter experiencing?
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Family Health Care Nursing, 8e 1-8
Ans: 2
Feedback
1. Role strain occurs when the person lacks knowledge about performance of a role.
2. Role conflict occurs when expectations about familial roles are incompatible. The adult
daughter needs to help an aging parent; however, she is also expected to maintain
personal role functions.
3. Role ambiguity occurs when the person does not know what to do in a situation.
4. Role expectations occur when a person who is performing a role is expected to pick up
additional responsibilities and incorporate them into the current role.
10. The nurse prepares to assess a family during a home visit. Which traits should the nurse
expect that demonstrate a healthy family? Select all that apply.
Ans: 2, 3, 5
Feedback
1. A healthy family fosters trust and respect instead of fostering suspicion.
2. A trait common to healthy families is exhibiting a sense of shared responsibility.
3. A trait common to healthy families is admitting to and seeking help with problems.
4. A healthy family welcomes rituals and traditions but does not enforce participation in
such family practices.
5. A trait common to healthy families is sharing leisure time.
8th Edition Melissa Robinson
Important Notes
The file includes the complete test bank, organized chapter by chapter.
A sample of selected pages has been provided for preview.
All available appendices and Excel files (if included in the original resources) are
provided.
We continuously update our files to ensure you receive the latest and most accurate
editions.
New editions are added regularly – stay connected for updates!
⚠️Note on Answer Keys: If the answer key is not included within the chapter
questions, you will find the complete answers and solutions at the end of each
chapter.
✅ Why Buy From Us?
📚 Complete & organized chapter-by-chapter – no missing content, no guessing.
⚡ Instant digital delivery – get your file the moment you pay, no waiting.
📅 Always up to date – we track new editions so you always get the latest version.
💬 Friendly support – real humans ready to help, anytime you need us.
🔒 Safe & secure – thousands of satisfied students trust us every semester.
🛡️Our Guarantees
💰 Money-Back Guarantee: Not satisfied? We offer a full refund – no questions asked.
🔄 Wrong File? No Problem: Contact us and we will replace it immediately with the
correct version, free of charge.
⏰ 24/7 Support: We are always here – reach out anytime and expect a fast response.
Contact Email:
,Robinson
Family Health Care Nursing, 8e 1-1
Chapter 1: Family Health Care Nursing: An Introduction
Multiple Choice:
1. The nurse is transferring to a care area that focuses on family nursing practice. What should
the 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 a family member experiencing illness with the greatest
chance for recovery.
4. The nurse and family together define the family and where therapeutic energy should
be placed.
2. The nurse notes that a client has been previously married and participates in raising the current
spouse’s children from a previous marriage. How should the nurse document this family type?
1. Extended
2. Cohabitation
3. Nuclear dyad
4. Blended
3. The nurse prepares an in-service program on family nursing for new graduate employees.
Which definition of family is the best one for the nurse to use?
1. Members of a family are self-defined.
2. People who share strong emotional ties are a family.
3. A family is defined by blood ties, adoption, and marriage.
4. A family is a group of people who live together with or without legal or biological ties.
4. The nurse prepares to assess a client whose family is being used as a resource. Which
approach to family nursing care is the nurse implementing?
1. Family as client
2. Family as system
3. Family as context
4. Family as component of society
,Robinson
Family Health Care Nursing, 8e 1-2
5. During a home visit the nurse teaches the client and family about actions to reduce the spread
of infection among the family members. Which role is the nurse implementing?
1. Counselor
2. Care deliverer
3. Health teacher
4. Family advocate
6. The nurse is caring for a patient whose family is experiencing emotional distress following a
new cancer diagnosis. According to the principles of effective nurse–family communication,
which action best demonstrates the nurse’s role?
1. Explain the diagnosis in medical terms to assert clinical expertise.
2. Encourage the family to avoid discussing emotional topics to maintain focus on the
treatment.
3. Listen actively and summarize the family’s concerns to promote mutual understanding.
4. Refer the family to another provider to avoid influencing their decisions.
7. The spouse of a client with complex care needs is unavailable to attend a care conference at 2
p.m. What should the nurse do to support family nursing care?
1. Have the client 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 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
,Robinson
Family Health Care Nursing, 8e 1-3
9. The adult daughter of an older client is expected to be at the client’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 nurse prepares to assess a family during a home visit. Which traits should the nurse
expect 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
,Robinson
Family Health Care Nursing, 8e 1-4
Answers:
1. The nurse is transferring to a care area that focuses on family nursing practice. What should
the nurse realize about this approach to care?
Ans: 4
Feedback
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 nurse from offering
family care.
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 nurses must define with the family which persons
constitute the family and where they will place their therapeutic energies” is used
by family 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 nurse notes that a client has been previously married and participates in raising the current
spouse’s children from a previous marriage. How should the nurse document this family type?
Ans: 4
Feedback
1. An extended family is defined as two or more adult generations and one that
includes grandparents and grandchildren living in the same household.
2. A cohabitation family type is defined as an unmarried couple sharing a household
who are involved in an emotional and/or sexually intimate relationship.
3. A nuclear dyad is defined as a married couple with no children.
4. A blended or reconstituted family type is defined as an arrangement in which one
or more of the parents was previously married and brings children from the
previous marriage into the current marriage.
3. The nurse prepares an in-service program on family nursing for new graduate employees.
Which definition of family is the best one for the nurse to use?
,Robinson
Family Health Care Nursing, 8e 1-5
Ans: 1
Feedback
1. The definition of family that is most inclusive and takes the individual family members
into consideration is that the members of a family are self-defined.
2. The definition that a family is made up of people who share strong emotional ties is a
psychological definition of a family.
3. The definition that a family is defined by blood ties, adoption, and marriage is a legal
definition of a family.
4. The definition that a family is a group of people who live together with or without legal
or biological ties is a sociological definition of a family.
4. The nurse prepares to assess a client whose family is being used as a resource. Which
approach to family nursing care is the nurse implementing?
Ans: 3
Feedback
1. The second approach to family nursing care centers on the assessment of all family
members. The family nurse is interested in the way all the 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.
2. The third approach to care views the family as a system. The focus in this approach is
on the family as the client; 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.
3. The first approach to family nursing care focuses on the assessment and care of an
individual client in which the family is the context. This is the traditional nursing focus,
in which the individual is foreground and the family is background. The family serves
as context for the individual as either a resource or a stressor to the individual’s health
and illness.
4. The fourth approach to care looks at the family as a component of society, in which the
family is viewed as one of many institutions in society, similar to health, educational,
religious, or economic institutions. The family is a basic or primary unit of society, and
it is a part of the larger system of society.
,Robinson
Family Health Care Nursing, 8e 1-6
5. During a home visit the nurse teaches the client and family about actions to reduce the spread
of infection among the family members. Which role is the nurse implementing?
Ans: 3
Feedback
1. As a counselor, the family nurse has a therapeutic role in helping individuals and
families solve problems or change behavior.
2. As a care deliverer, the family nurse either delivers or supervises the care that families
receive in various settings. To do this, the nurse must be a technical expert in terms of
both knowledge and skill.
3. The family nurse teaches about family wellness, illness, relations, and parenting.
4. As an advocate the family nurse advocates for families and empowers family members
to speak with their own voices, or the nurse speaks out for the family.
6. The nurse is caring for a patient whose family is experiencing emotional distress following a
new cancer diagnosis. According to the principles of effective nurse–family communication,
which action best demonstrates the nurse’s role?
Ans: 3
Feedback
1. Asserting clinical expertise does not build understanding as the nurse’s communication
role.
2. The nurse should provide emotional support and help families cope during stress or
crisis, not avoid it.
3. This action aligns with the nurse’s role in modeling communications, supporting
understanding, and facilitating family-centered care.
4. The nurse should not withdraw from or defer communication, but be an active
facilitator of communication in order to engage the family.
7. The spouse of a client with complex care needs is unavailable to attend a care conference at 2
p.m. What should the nurse do to support family nursing care?
Ans: 2
,Robinson
Family Health Care Nursing, 8e 1-7
Feedback
1. It is inappropriate to expect an ill client to attend a care conference.
2. One obstacle to family nursing practice is the hours for care. Because the spouse is not
available during the scheduled meeting, the approach to overcome this obstacle is to
schedule the meeting when the spouse can attend.
3. The spouse is not available. Telephoning in for the conference is not appropriate.
4. Providing the spouse with the outcomes of the meeting does not take the family’s needs
into consideration and violates the purpose of the meeting.
8. The 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?
Ans: 1
Feedback
1. The affective function, one of the basic functions of family, is essential for creating a
harmonious and stable environment, and optimal for healthy child development and for
the satisfaction of all family members. Affective function has to do with the ways
family members relate to one another and those outside the immediate family
boundaries. Well-functioning families can maintain a consistent level of involvement
with one another, yet at the same time not become too involved in each other’s lives.
2. The economic function of the family is focused on providing the necessities of food,
clothing, and shelter for the family members.
3. The health care function of the family is achieved when the family learns how to
maintain, protect, and restore health.
4. The family is the first and one of the most influential settings for socialization. Families
are the primary source of individual development and the primary setting in which
children begin to acquire the beliefs, attitudes, values, and behaviors considered
appropriate to society. This situation does not demonstrate family socialization.
9. The adult daughter of an older client is expected to be at the client’s bedside, yet personal
family responsibilities are not being completed. Which family interactional process is the
daughter experiencing?
, Robinson
Family Health Care Nursing, 8e 1-8
Ans: 2
Feedback
1. Role strain occurs when the person lacks knowledge about performance of a role.
2. Role conflict occurs when expectations about familial roles are incompatible. The adult
daughter needs to help an aging parent; however, she is also expected to maintain
personal role functions.
3. Role ambiguity occurs when the person does not know what to do in a situation.
4. Role expectations occur when a person who is performing a role is expected to pick up
additional responsibilities and incorporate them into the current role.
10. The nurse prepares to assess a family during a home visit. Which traits should the nurse
expect that demonstrate a healthy family? Select all that apply.
Ans: 2, 3, 5
Feedback
1. A healthy family fosters trust and respect instead of fostering suspicion.
2. A trait common to healthy families is exhibiting a sense of shared responsibility.
3. A trait common to healthy families is admitting to and seeking help with problems.
4. A healthy family welcomes rituals and traditions but does not enforce participation in
such family practices.
5. A trait common to healthy families is sharing leisure time.
