Chapter 14 Family-Focused Nursing Actions

Chapter 14  Family-Focused Nursing Actions

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Sample Questions

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. A nurse is making a visit to the home following a family member’s 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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