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Denham Eggenberger Young Family Focused Nursing Care Test Bank

Chapter 2- Innovating Traditional Thinking about Nursing Practice

MULTIPLE CHOICE

Which of the following is the best reason for a nurse to consider the family as a unit of care?

1.	The family is recognized as a unified whole.
2.	All family members are treated equally.
3.	Family members will receive care from other family members.
4.	The ill individual is given the best care possible.

ANS: 1

	Feedback
1	The family as a whole influences the individual family member.
2	Equality of treatment is not necessarily a goal of nursing care.
3	Care provided by family members is situational and not predictable.
4	No guarantee of the best care for the ill individual.

PTS: 1

Which of the following is not a domain of the Family Health Model?

1.	Structure
2.	Interaction
3.	Function
4.	Context

ANS: 2

Interaction will occur between family members but is not a domain of model.

PTS: 1

Which of the following statements describe the new patient/health-care consumer role?
Provide only the information asked for by the provider
Obtain information from a variety of sources
Engage in self-management of care
Assume providers will understand their needs

1.	b only
2.	b and c
3.	a, b and c
4.	All of the above.

ANS: 2

	Feedback
1	Not the only descriptor of the new patient/consumer listed.
2	Both b and c describe the new patient/consumer.
3	Providing minimal information will not assist with problem solving.
4	Includes incorrect descriptors of patient/consumer.

PTS: 1

Which of the following statements is most accurate concerning thinking family? A nurse who is thinking family:

1.	Recognizes only the family members who are present with the ill family member.
2.	Realizes that all persons receiving nursing care are interdependent with family members.
3.	Only considers the point of view of the ill family member.
4.	Believes that including the family will improve patient care.

ANS: 2

	Feedback
1	Family is family no matter where members reside.
2	Interdependence is a characteristic of a functioning family.
3	Family members have opinions that will influence health and illness.
4	There is no guarantee that including family will improve care.

PTS: 1

MULTIPLE RESPONSE

The Institute for Patient- and Family-Centered Care proposes which of the following desired changes in the way health care is provided to individuals and their families? Select all that apply. Each health encounter should:

1.	Include all family members.
2.	Enhance individual and family strengths.
3.	Build the confidence and competence of family members.
4.	Discourage care giving by family members.

ANS: 2, 3

Rationale:

Family members cannot always be present but can still be involved.
This will assist family members with health maintenance and promotion.
May lead to behaviors that promote and maintain health.
Care giving by family members is often necessary and desired.

PTS: 1

Select all that apply. A family is a group of people

1.	Living together.
2.	Related by blood.
3.	Connected emotionally.
4.	Committed to each other.
5.	Who call themselves family.

ANS: 2, 3, 4, 5

Rationale:

A family does not need to physically live together and may not be connected by blood or emotion.

PTS: 1

Select all that apply. According to the WHO, a family health nurse:

1.	Possesses the usual knowledge expected of a competent nurse.
2.	Is a generalist with specialty knowledge of culture and family.
3.	Attempts to create a healthy family by addressing health problems.
4.	Only works with families in the community setting.

ANS: 1, 2, 3

Rationale:

Number 4 is not correct because a family health nurse coordinates care among the diverse settings where care is provided.

PTS: 1

Which of the following assumptions about family will assist the nurse to plan and deliver meaningful care? Select any that apply.

1.	The nurse has limited information about family function.
2.	Individual family members seldom have only one problem at a time.
3.	Disease management may be influenced by family responsibilities.
4.	Family members are not able to prioritize activities related to health care.

ANS: 1, 2, 3

Rationale:

Conducting a family assessment that includes function, other problems, and family roles will provide necessary information for developing goals for family members. Family members are able to prioritize, and when they do, compliance with treatments may not be possible.

PTS: 1

COMPLETION

____________________ is established as individual members find their places within the family household and then separate themselves from it.

ANS: Family identity

PTS: 1

Families who had children with type 1 diabetes and had ____________________ family cohesion and ____________________ family conflict responded positively to a family-centered care approach, according to Hanson (1995).

ANS: high, low

PTS: 1

Family health as a whole implies a ____________________ that optimizes the actions and abilities of each member, which influence the good of all, yet regards the ____________________ of each individual.

ANS: Group functionality, needs

PTS: 1

SHORT ANSWER

List the pros and cons of the application of General Systems Theory to family nursing.

ANS:

Pros: Encourages consideration of the whole; connectedness and feedback; the whole and its parts are important. Cons: Ignores historical, cultural, and political factors; may overlook multiple forces and processes.

PTS: 1

Differentiate healthy families from unhealthy families, including three characteristics of each type.

Healthy families Unhealthy families

_1__________________________________1_______________________________

_2_________________________________ 2_______________________________

_3__________________________________3_______________________________

ANS:

Healthy: Nurturing, supportive, balancing. Unhealthy: inability to complete usual tasks, satisfy social obligations, or fulfill customary roles

PTS: 1

Define family health and list processes that influence it.

ANS:

According to Denham (2003), family health is defined as a phenomenon that includes the complex interactions and relationships members have with one another within the household, and the potential ways they collaborate to maximize individual abilities to develop and maintain what they view as meaningful and healthful ways. Examples of processes include interaction, coping, integrity, development.

PTS: 1

Explain what is meant by this statement: Changes in the household experience can negatively or positively influence the health of family members.

ANS:

Resources (presence or absence), and location of household (isolated or urban) are important influencing factors of health.

PTS: 1

Chapter 14- Family-Focused Nursing Actions

MULTIPLE CHOICE

A nurse is making a visit to the home following a family members discharge from the hospitalization. Which of the following data would be most helpful?

1.	Identify potential areas of strengths in the family.
2.	Plan for family care based on assessment of core processes.
3.	View the priority of the home visit as the individual who was hospitalized.
4.	Conduct a family assessment that remains focused on management of the symptoms.

ANS: 2

	Feedback
1	Identifying the strengths will only provide a limited picture of the family.
2	Assessment of the core process will provide direction for family nursing.
3	The individual and family health are related. The priority may be the family.
4	Focusing on the symptoms may limit the effectiveness of the visit by not addressing concerns of individual or family.

PTS: 1

KEY: Content Area: Management of Care | Integrated Process: Caring | Client Need: Safe and Effective Care | Cognitive Level: Comprehension | Question Type: Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements reflect an accurate understanding family core processes?

1.	Core family processes focus on family structure
2.	Core processes influence the health of family, rather than the individual
3.	Core family processes can guide family nursing practices.
4.	Nursing actions focused on family core processes focus on individual with an illness.

ANS: 3

	Feedback
1	Core processes focus on family processes
2	Core processes influence the health of both individual and the family
3	Core processes provide a framework for family nursing practice.
4	Core processes focus on both individual and family.

PTS: 1

KEY: Content Area: Management of Care | Integrated Process: Caring | Client Need: Safe and Effective Care | Cognitive Level: Comprehension | Question Type: Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements indicate a nurse needs further education about family nursing using core family processes?

1.	Core processes can provide a framework when family is the unit of care, rather than the individual with an illness.
2.	Exploring core processes can help nurses find ways to empower and support families.
3.	Core processes offers directions for family-focused nursing actions that intentionally include the family.
4.	Core processes provide ways to approach family care that include both assessment and nursing actions.

ANS: 1

	Feedback
1	Core processes provide a framework for caring for individual and family.
2	Core processes provides direction for empowering and supporting families.
3	Core processes deliberatively direct nursing attention to family.
4	Core processes provide a framework for assessment and nursing action.

PTS: 1

KEY: Content Area: Management of Care | Integrated Process: Caring | Client Need: Safe and Effective Care | Cognitive Level: Comprehension | Question Type: Multiple Choice

A nurse is caring for a patient with a terminal diagnosis of a brain tumor. The family and patient wish for him to be in their home during the end of his life. The family has decided hospice will become involved. Which of the following nursing actions address priority core processes at this time?

1.	Determine the number of family members available to participate in care.
2.	Helping the family determine the ways they will celebrate holidays after the death.
3.	Discuss the communication patterns and emotional bonds of the family at this time and prior to the illness.
4.	Identify the health routines of the family that need to be modified so family health can be regained.

ANS: 3

	Feedback
1	The number of family members is not a priority.
2	Celebrations are most likely not the focus of the family at this time.
3	Prior communication and cathexis processes will be important to family during this time of care at end of life.
4	Modifying the family health routines would not be a priority at this time

PTS: 1

KEY: Content Area: Management of Care | Integrated Process: Caring | Client Need: Safe and Effective Care | Cognitive Level: Comprehension | Question Type: Multiple Choice

Family-focused nursing actions view a family within the larger social system. Which of the following statements reflect accurate understandings of this view of family nursing practice?

1.	Effective nursing address the complexity of an individuals illness, as well as their family and social networks.
2.	Nurses who practice in the hospital seldom need to address the patients community networks.
3.	Effective family nursing practice maintains a focus on the current situation.
4.	Family nursing practice is based on one model of nursing care that places the family as the unit care.

ANS: 1

	Feedback
1	Family nursing thinking and care provides the optimal outcomes when care addresses the individual, family, and social systems.
2	Transition from hospital to home often requires nurses to plan for discharge by engaging community networks.
3	Family thinking considers the past, present, and future. Maintaining a focus on the current situation limits effectiveness.
4	Multiple models of nursing care may be used to guide family nursing practice.

PTS: 1

KEY: Content Area: Management of Care | Integrated Process: Caring | Client Need: Safe and Effective Care | Cognitive Level: Comprehension | Question Type: Multiple Choice

After years of caregiving in the home, a family has recently moved their family member to a nursing home. Which of the following would be appropriate nursing actions at this time?

1.	An assessment of the core process of celebration
2.	Emphasize the familys opportunities, since the nursing home will replace the family members caregiving responsibilities.
3.	An assessment for ambiguous loss in the core process of cathexis
4.	Use motivational interviewing techniques to guide family behavioral changes.

ANS: 3

	Feedback
1	Celebrations are less likely to be a family priority during this initial transition phase.
2	Emphasizing the familys opportunities minimizes the familys prior roles in caregiving.
3	Ambiguous loss in family process of cathexis often occurs in dementia, when the persons body is present but the prior way of being is no longer.
4	Motivational interviewing focused on family behavior changes may not be appropriate during this initial transition phase.

PTS: 1

KEY: Content Area: Management of Care | Integrated Process: Caring | Client Need: Safe and Effective Care | Cognitive Level: Comprehension | Question Type: Multiple Choice

Family interventions in the core process of connections focus on which of the following?

1.	Discussing a family genogram and ecomap
2.	Completing a chronic sorrow assessment
3.	Engaging a family in motivational interviewing
4.	Facilitating family decision-making

ANS: 1

	Feedback
1	A family genogram and ecomap are priority methods of assessing connections that provide a foundation for family intervention of discussions and identifying priority concerns and strengths.
2	Chronic sorrow assessment is directed toward family process of cathexis.
3	Motivational interview focuses on family process of change.
4	Family decision-making primarily focuses on family process other than connections.

PTS: 1

KEY: Content Area: Management of Care | Integrated Process: Caring | Client Need: Safe and Effective Care | Cognitive Level: Comprehension | Question Type: Multiple Choice

Mary is the mother of a six-year-old son, James, with cerebral palsy. James uses wheelchair to attend school. However, lately he has had a tutor in the home because of declining health. James is being seen in the clinic for possible pneumonia. Effective family focused nursing actions should focus on which of the following core processes?

1.	Cathexis
2.	Coordination
3.	Caregiving
4.	All of the above

ANS: 4

All family processes of emotional bonds, coordination, and caregiving would be important in caregiving of a child with a chronic disability.

PTS: 1

KEY: Content Area: Management of Care | Integrated Process: Caring | Client Need: Safe and Effective Care | Cognitive Level: Comprehension | Question Type: Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements reflect an understanding of family-focused nursing actions? A nurse who is implementing family-focused nursing actions:

1.	Partners with a family
2.	Assesses family core processes
3.	Identifies both the strengths and the concerns of a family
4.	All of the above

ANS: 4

Rationale:

Partnerships, assessment, and family strengths and concerns are important to family-focused nursing actions.

PTS: 1

KEY: Content Area: Management of Care | Integrated Process: Caring | Client Need: Safe and Effective Care | Cognitive Level: Comprehension | Question Type: Multiple Choice

A nurse is caring for a 62-year-old woman with respiratory failure who has an advance directive that indicates her wishes related to resuscitation. The woman has two adult children and a husband who express differing views about the directive. The nurse decides to lead a family meeting. Which of the following would be the best purposes of this particular family meeting?

1.	Provide information that convinces the family to follow the health-care teams directions.
2.	Assist individual family members to share individual beliefs and understandings.
3.	Increase efficiency of the nurse by decreasing the number of questions.
4.	Create an environment where prior stresses and conflicts can be resolved.

ANS: 2

	Feedback
1	The focus of a family meeting is listening to the family, rather than convincing them to follow the health-care team directions. Sharing an exchange of information will be a way build consensus.
2	Sharing family beliefs and understandings is a purpose of a family meeting.
3	The nurses efficiency may be an outcome of the family meeting, but it is not a purpose.
4	Resolving prior conflicts may not be the best use of a family meeting at this time when there are current concerns.

PTS: 1

KEY: Content Area: Management of Care | Integrated Process: Caring | Client Need: Safe and Effective Care | Cognitive Level: Comprehension | Question Type: Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements by a nurse who is planning to being leading family meetings reflect a need for additional education before she conducts the meetings?

1.	I must be sure to provide plenty of time so I can listen to each of the family members.
2.	I plan to direct my attention to the familys identified strengths and concerns.
3.	It is important for me to help clarify each of the family members beliefs.
4.	It is best if I wait to hold a meeting until the family asks for this action.

ANS: 4

	Feedback
1	Time for listening to all family members is important in family meetings.
2	Attention to the familys identified strengths and concerns is a purpose of family meetings.
3	Clarifying family members beliefs is a purpose of family meetings.
4	Families will often not request a family meeting because they are not accustomed to this family-focused nursing action. The nurse should lead this action.

PTS: 1

KEY: Content Area: Management of Care | Integrated Process: Caring | Client Need: Safe and Effective Care | Cognitive Level: Comprehension | Question Type: Multiple Choice

A nurse is being attentive to the distress a family is experiencing with the admission of a family member to the intensive care unit. The nurse makes the statement, I know this is a stressful time for you and your family. Would you like to come to your family members room with me and I will explain equipment to you? Which of the following is an accurate statement about the elements of this nursing action?

1.	The critically ill patient is the recipient of this nursing action.
2.	Characteristics of this settings is unrelated to this nursing action.
3.	The anxiety and distress of the family is the focus of this nursing action.
4.	All core processes need to be assessed at this time to gain a complete family assessment.

ANS: 3

	Feedback
1	The family of the critically ill patient is the focus of this nursing action.
2	The foreign, stressful, complex environment of the intensive care unit setting influences the focus and location of this nursing action.
3	The variable of concern for this family is the anxiety and distress.
4	Assessing all core processes at this time may not be effective use of time and draw attention to the priority concerns of the family at this time of admission to intensive care unit.

PTS: 1

KEY: Content Area: Management of Care | Integrated Process: Caring | Client Need: Safe and Effective Care | Cognitive Level: Comprehension | Question Type: Multiple Choice

SHORT ANSWER

Identify nursing actions that relates to three of the core family processes of connectedness, change, and coordination.

ANS:

Change: Motivational interviewing to identify areas of possible change in family routines.

Connectedness: Explore family bonds in the ecomap.

Coordination: Identify resources in the family social systems networks.

Rationale:

Family-focused nursing actions of motivational interviewing addresses family change.

Exploring family bonds addressed the core process of family connections.

Identifying resources in the community and social network will allow the nurse to help the family coordinate the available resources.

PTS: 1

KEY: Content Area: Management of Care | Integrated Process: Caring | Client Need: Safe and Effective Care | Cognitive Level: Comprehension | Question Type: Short Answer

Identify nursing actions that relate to three of the core family processes of communication, caregiving and cathexis.

ANS:

Examples of answers:

Communication: Family meeting to resolve family conflict.

Caregiving: Complete family caregiving strain index to assess caregiving.

Cathexis: Assess chronic sorrow.

Rationale:

Family meetings can help resolve family conflict through focusing on family core processes of communication.

Completing family caregiving strain index assesses the family core process of caregiving.

Assessing chronic sorrow addresses the family core processes of cathexis.

PTS: 1

KEY: Content Area: Management of Care | Integrated Process: Caring | Client Need: Safe and Effective Care | Cognitive Level: Comprehension | Question Type: Short Answer

Identify three core family processes and areas of concern that require the attention of the nurse in illness experiences.

ANS:

Example of answers:

Communication: Family silence about a family illness or diagnosis.

Caregiving: Fatigue and stress with long-term care of a family member with a chronic illness.

Cathexis: Chronic sorrow, loss, and ambiguous loss.

Celebration: Loss with changes in celebration rituals.

Change: Family needing to make lifestyle change in diet or exercise.

Connectedness: Family lacks relationships with connections of extended family, friends, support groups, schools, religious affiliations, employers, and professionals.

Coordination: Family may have difficulties in making decisions about care of a family member.

Rationale:

A number of core family process and concerns emerge during a family illness experience. The nurse can have an impact and influence a variety of core processes by identifying concerns and directing nursing actions.

PTS: 1

KEY: Content Area: Management of Care | Integrated Process: Caring | Client Need: Safe and Effective Care | Cognitive Level: Comprehension | Question Type: Short Answer