Exam 20: Family Health

Beyond gathering needed information for future interventions,which purpose is served when the nurse interviews the family?

Each evening,a newly disabled man becomes angry when his wife,just home from her new full-time job,does not have dinner on the table at 6 PM.Which action would be most appropriate for the nurse to take?

Which definition of family would be the most useful for the nurse practicing in the community?

A nurse needed to help a child who was not behaving consistently with the requirements of the new preschool program that began that fall.Which action would be most appropriate for the nurse to perform?

A young son was so physically fidgety that his mother was seriously embarrassed by his inability to be quiet and involved in the interview.Which comment by the nurse would be the most helpful?

Which best describes why it is crucial that nurses who focus on the care of individual patients also be able to work with families? (Select all that apply.)

A nurse asked of a family,"Could each of you tell me what you typically do during the week?" Which would the nurse most likely say to follow up such an open-ended question?

A nurse asked a family if they'd work with her to create a family genogram.The mother asked,"Why would you want to know so much about our family?" Which would be the most appropriate response by the nurse?

Which best describes what is meant by cohabitation?

Which best describes what proportion of children live in a single-parent family?

Which statement best describes how a family can meet the needs of society?

A 36-year-old woman had diabetes diagnosed at a free health-screening program at a large employer.Which should be emphasized by the nurse when helping the woman make an appointment at the diabetic clinic for follow-up testing and treatment?

A nurse was creating an ecomap for a family,which consisted of a 3-year-old girl,an 8-year-old boy,and their mother.Which question would be useful for the nurse to ask?

Which are examples of the internal structure of the family?

The nurse has started to complete a family health tree.Which question would be most helpful as the nurse works with the family to promote their health?

Which is a major barrier to a nurse caring for the family as a whole?

Record data demonstrated that there were a very large number of children in the school district whose insurance plan was the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).Which conclusion would be accurate for the nurse to make?

A man had been in an extended-care facility for 5 weeks and was now home.His wife tells the nurse,"He's trying to take up where he left off but we've adapted to not having him home.He keeps thinking things will be just as they were when he left,but they aren't." Which would be the most appropriate response by the nurse?

Which best describes an unexpected result of the decrease in funding to traditional public and private forms of health care?

Which factors make family nursing particularly challenging? (Select all that apply.)