NURS 388 Midterm 1- Family Nursing questions with
Complete Solutions
What are nursing interventions? Correct Answer-Any treatment based
upon clinical judgment that a nurse performs to enhance patient/client
outcomes
Purposeful and conscious and usually involves observable behaviours of
the nurse
not doing "to" or "for" but "with" the client/patient/family
Nursing interventions include Correct Answer-Direct/Indirect care
Individuals, families and communities
What are Nursing interventions for families? Correct Answer-Actions
based on clinical judgement and knowledge that are used when nurses
work with families; they focus on changing the cognitive, affective, or
behavioral domains of family functioning
What is the Family Systems Theory Correct Answer-- understanding
what a family unit it
- when something happens to one person in that family unit, it will
impact everyone, but not everyone will have the same impact.
, - Families have a way to control boundaries (Who can come in and who
can come out)
What are some approached to family nursing? Correct Answer-1)
Family as a context
2) family as a client
3) family as a system
4) Family as a component of society
What is Family as context? Correct Answer-Individual as
FOREGROUND
Family as Context
What is Family as Client? Correct Answer-Family as foreground
Individual as background
What is Family as System? Correct Answer-Interactional family (how
they interact with one another)
Complete Solutions
What are nursing interventions? Correct Answer-Any treatment based
upon clinical judgment that a nurse performs to enhance patient/client
outcomes
Purposeful and conscious and usually involves observable behaviours of
the nurse
not doing "to" or "for" but "with" the client/patient/family
Nursing interventions include Correct Answer-Direct/Indirect care
Individuals, families and communities
What are Nursing interventions for families? Correct Answer-Actions
based on clinical judgement and knowledge that are used when nurses
work with families; they focus on changing the cognitive, affective, or
behavioral domains of family functioning
What is the Family Systems Theory Correct Answer-- understanding
what a family unit it
- when something happens to one person in that family unit, it will
impact everyone, but not everyone will have the same impact.
, - Families have a way to control boundaries (Who can come in and who
can come out)
What are some approached to family nursing? Correct Answer-1)
Family as a context
2) family as a client
3) family as a system
4) Family as a component of society
What is Family as context? Correct Answer-Individual as
FOREGROUND
Family as Context
What is Family as Client? Correct Answer-Family as foreground
Individual as background
What is Family as System? Correct Answer-Interactional family (how
they interact with one another)
