N480 Exam 1 Questions and complete Answers
What is the 1953 definition of family? correct answers 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 answers 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 answers 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 answers legal, biological, sociological, and
psychological.
What is the basic unit of society? correct answers Family.
What is an important consideration when describing the changing relationship of individuals and
families in nursing care? correct answers 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 answers Nurturing and caring that
members offer each other
What are the levels of family care? correct answers Family nursing spans across individual care family
care and societal care.
Family nursing is seeing conceptually as a combination of what? correct answers 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 answers 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 answers 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 answers 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 answers
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 answers The family is the client. Like family
therapy.
What does it mean to view the family as a component of society? correct answers 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 answers Trends, economy, housing, education, healthcare system, environmental, culture,
policies, organizations
What are several ways in which theories are variables influencing family health nursing? correct answers
Stress and coping, system structure and function, development, self-help, self-care, health promotion,
interaction
What does a health teacher do? correct answers 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 answers Coordinates of care that families receive,
and collaborate with the family to plan that care. Example? If a family member has been Traumatic
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 answers 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 answers 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.
What is the 1953 definition of family? correct answers 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 answers 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 answers 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 answers legal, biological, sociological, and
psychological.
What is the basic unit of society? correct answers Family.
What is an important consideration when describing the changing relationship of individuals and
families in nursing care? correct answers 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 answers Nurturing and caring that
members offer each other
What are the levels of family care? correct answers Family nursing spans across individual care family
care and societal care.
Family nursing is seeing conceptually as a combination of what? correct answers 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 answers 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 answers 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 answers 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 answers
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 answers The family is the client. Like family
therapy.
What does it mean to view the family as a component of society? correct answers 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 answers Trends, economy, housing, education, healthcare system, environmental, culture,
policies, organizations
What are several ways in which theories are variables influencing family health nursing? correct answers
Stress and coping, system structure and function, development, self-help, self-care, health promotion,
interaction
What does a health teacher do? correct answers 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 answers Coordinates of care that families receive,
and collaborate with the family to plan that care. Example? If a family member has been Traumatic
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 answers 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 answers 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.
