N480 Exam 1 UPDATED QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
What is the 1953 definition of family? - CORRECT ANSWER The family is a group of persons
united by ties of marriage, blood, or adoption, constituting a single household, interacting and
communicating with each other in their respective social roles of husband and wife, mother and
father, son and daughter, brother and sister, and creating and maintaining a common culture.
What is the modern definition of family health? - CORRECT ANSWER Family health is a
dynamic state of well-being that includes biological, physiological, psychological, spiritual,
sociological, and cultural factors of men individuals within the whole family system.
What is the more modern definition of family? - CORRECT ANSWER Family refers to two or
more individuals who depend on one another for emotional, physical, and economical support. The
members of the family are self-defined.
What considerations go into the definition of a family? - CORRECT ANSWER legal,
biological, sociological, and psychological.
What is the basic unit of society? - CORRECT ANSWER Family.
What is an important consideration when describing the changing relationship of individuals and
families in nursing care? - CORRECT ANSWER The traditional roles of patients were to defer
To the authority of the healthcare worker, and you only answer questions when asked. Now, patients
are partners in health and illness care. We answer their questions.
What's a shorter way of describing a healthy family? - CORRECT ANSWER Nurturing and
caring that members offer each other
What are the levels of family care? - CORRECT ANSWER Family nursing spans across
individual care family care and societal care.
Family nursing is seeing conceptually as a combination of what? - CORRECT
ANSWER Theories and strategies from nursing, family therapy, and family social science.
Family focused clinical care is the priority, however.
,What is the nature of family nursing inventions? In other words, what are some of the nurses
considerations? - CORRECT ANSWER experiences over time
Community and cultural context
relationships
Health and illness of individuals within the family
interaction between individual and family
Family influences over health and illness
manipulation of the environment
changing focus across family members
The family's definition of family
What are the four approaches to family nursing? - CORRECT ANSWER Family as context for
individual development
Family as client
Family has system
Family as component of society
What does it mean to see the family as context? - CORRECT ANSWER to see the individual as
being in the foreground, and the family as in the background. So, the family is a resource for the
individual. This is a more traditional way of viewing.
What is the difference between family as context, and family as the client (unit of care)? - CORRECT
ANSWER Using the family as context, the individual and the care of a solitary person is
considered the focus, while the family is a background. The family is composed of individuals, and
individuals DATA reflect the family.
Using the family as a unit of care, The family is in the forefront as a unified whole which reflects
individuals. Care is of individuals and family.
What does it mean to use the family as a system? - CORRECT ANSWER The family is the
client. Like family therapy.
, What does it mean to view the family as a component of society? - CORRECT
ANSWER Basically, community health in which the family is a component of the main
institution of society.
What are several ways in which society acts as a variable to influence the family health nursing
practice? - CORRECT ANSWER Trends, economy, housing, education, healthcare system,
environmental, culture, policies, organizations
What are several ways in which theories are variables influencing family health nursing? - CORRECT
ANSWER Stress and coping, system structure and function, development, self-help, self-care,
health promotion, interaction
What does a health teacher do? - CORRECT ANSWER Teachers about family wellness, illness,
relations, and parenting, to name a few. The function of the teacher educator continues in all settings
in ways are both formal and informal. Some examples include showing parents how to care for their
new infant, and giving instruction about how to care for oneself as a new diabetic
What does a family nurse do as a coordinator? - CORRECT ANSWER Coordinates of care that
families receive, and collaborate with the family to plan that care. Example? If a family member has
been Trumatic accident, the nurse would help the family to find resources ranging from acute care,
home health care, and social services.
how does the nurse act as a deliverer of family healthcare? - CORRECT ANSWER The nurse is
a technical expert in terms of knowledge and skill. For example, the nurse me go into a family home
daily in order to educate the family on care of a child with a respirator
How does the nurse function as a family advocate? - CORRECT ANSWER By empowering the
family members to speak with their own voice and to speak on their own behalf so that the nurse
doesn't have to, but will. Example? A nurse advocating for family safety by supporting legislation that
requires wearing seatbelts in motor vehicles.
How does the nurse act as a consultant? - CORRECT ANSWER The nurse may consult
agencies to facilitate family care. For example, a clinical nurse might be asked to help the family to
find appropriate long-term care for grandmother..
CORRECT ANSWERS
What is the 1953 definition of family? - CORRECT ANSWER The family is a group of persons
united by ties of marriage, blood, or adoption, constituting a single household, interacting and
communicating with each other in their respective social roles of husband and wife, mother and
father, son and daughter, brother and sister, and creating and maintaining a common culture.
What is the modern definition of family health? - CORRECT ANSWER Family health is a
dynamic state of well-being that includes biological, physiological, psychological, spiritual,
sociological, and cultural factors of men individuals within the whole family system.
What is the more modern definition of family? - CORRECT ANSWER Family refers to two or
more individuals who depend on one another for emotional, physical, and economical support. The
members of the family are self-defined.
What considerations go into the definition of a family? - CORRECT ANSWER legal,
biological, sociological, and psychological.
What is the basic unit of society? - CORRECT ANSWER Family.
What is an important consideration when describing the changing relationship of individuals and
families in nursing care? - CORRECT ANSWER The traditional roles of patients were to defer
To the authority of the healthcare worker, and you only answer questions when asked. Now, patients
are partners in health and illness care. We answer their questions.
What's a shorter way of describing a healthy family? - CORRECT ANSWER Nurturing and
caring that members offer each other
What are the levels of family care? - CORRECT ANSWER Family nursing spans across
individual care family care and societal care.
Family nursing is seeing conceptually as a combination of what? - CORRECT
ANSWER Theories and strategies from nursing, family therapy, and family social science.
Family focused clinical care is the priority, however.
,What is the nature of family nursing inventions? In other words, what are some of the nurses
considerations? - CORRECT ANSWER experiences over time
Community and cultural context
relationships
Health and illness of individuals within the family
interaction between individual and family
Family influences over health and illness
manipulation of the environment
changing focus across family members
The family's definition of family
What are the four approaches to family nursing? - CORRECT ANSWER Family as context for
individual development
Family as client
Family has system
Family as component of society
What does it mean to see the family as context? - CORRECT ANSWER to see the individual as
being in the foreground, and the family as in the background. So, the family is a resource for the
individual. This is a more traditional way of viewing.
What is the difference between family as context, and family as the client (unit of care)? - CORRECT
ANSWER Using the family as context, the individual and the care of a solitary person is
considered the focus, while the family is a background. The family is composed of individuals, and
individuals DATA reflect the family.
Using the family as a unit of care, The family is in the forefront as a unified whole which reflects
individuals. Care is of individuals and family.
What does it mean to use the family as a system? - CORRECT ANSWER The family is the
client. Like family therapy.
, What does it mean to view the family as a component of society? - CORRECT
ANSWER Basically, community health in which the family is a component of the main
institution of society.
What are several ways in which society acts as a variable to influence the family health nursing
practice? - CORRECT ANSWER Trends, economy, housing, education, healthcare system,
environmental, culture, policies, organizations
What are several ways in which theories are variables influencing family health nursing? - CORRECT
ANSWER Stress and coping, system structure and function, development, self-help, self-care,
health promotion, interaction
What does a health teacher do? - CORRECT ANSWER Teachers about family wellness, illness,
relations, and parenting, to name a few. The function of the teacher educator continues in all settings
in ways are both formal and informal. Some examples include showing parents how to care for their
new infant, and giving instruction about how to care for oneself as a new diabetic
What does a family nurse do as a coordinator? - CORRECT ANSWER Coordinates of care that
families receive, and collaborate with the family to plan that care. Example? If a family member has
been Trumatic accident, the nurse would help the family to find resources ranging from acute care,
home health care, and social services.
how does the nurse act as a deliverer of family healthcare? - CORRECT ANSWER The nurse is
a technical expert in terms of knowledge and skill. For example, the nurse me go into a family home
daily in order to educate the family on care of a child with a respirator
How does the nurse function as a family advocate? - CORRECT ANSWER By empowering the
family members to speak with their own voice and to speak on their own behalf so that the nurse
doesn't have to, but will. Example? A nurse advocating for family safety by supporting legislation that
requires wearing seatbelts in motor vehicles.
How does the nurse act as a consultant? - CORRECT ANSWER The nurse may consult
agencies to facilitate family care. For example, a clinical nurse might be asked to help the family to
find appropriate long-term care for grandmother..
