Family Health Care Nursing: Theory, Practice, and Research, 8th Edition
Melissa Robinson, Paul S. Smith
TEST BANK
Includes All Chapters (1 to 19)
What’s Included?
• Includes Multiple Choice and Multiple Response Questions with Answers and Detailed Explanations
• Rationales Included in answers
, Test Bank
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Chapter 1: Family
Family Health CareHealth Care
Nursing, 8e 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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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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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
Melissa Robinson, Paul S. Smith
TEST BANK
Includes All Chapters (1 to 19)
What’s Included?
• Includes Multiple Choice and Multiple Response Questions with Answers and Detailed Explanations
• Rationales Included in answers
, Test Bank
1-1
Robinson
Chapter 1: Family
Family Health CareHealth Care
Nursing, 8e 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
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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
