Exam 7: The Nurse and the Family

The nurse includes the family in patient care to maintain the family's ____________________.

The patient states that her mother has just been diagnosed with Alzheimer disease and that she is devastated and does not know what to do.The nurse suggests that she attend a support group meeting where she can discuss her concerns with others.The patient says that she will call and attend a meeting.The nurse assesses the coping strategy the patient is using as:

The nurse is designing a home care plan for a child with a congenital disease and is assessing the family values regarding home care.The nurse will use as her best source:

When discussing the communication patterns of families with the patient,the nurse must consider the:

The nurse clarifies that the main role of the nurse when assessing families and their coping strategies is:

The nurse counsels a family that during the stage of families with adolescents,one of the developmental tasks is to:

When the nurse is assessing for functional communication styles in a family,the nurse will be looking for evidence of:

The nurse congratulates the patient for successfully coping with a family crisis.The state of having used coping strategies effectively is classified as ____________________.

The nurse explains that children assume roles in family interaction based on:

The patient,a 36-year-old mother of four children,is crying.She relates to you that her best friend just told her,"You are a good mother and you do everything perfectly,but I don't think you enjoy it." The nurse assesses that the patient has taken the role of:

The patient who is recovering from a mastectomy relates that she no longer feels like a woman.The best response by the nurse would be:

The nurse counsels a patient that the manner in which a family unit adapts to stress can affect the family's:

The patient states that her 5-year-old is always running up to relatives and friends and wants to give them a big hug and kiss.The patient asks if her daughter is appropriate in her actions.Based on the concepts of functional communication,the most appropriate reply would be:

The family is an important unit in society primarily because it:

The nurse reminds the patient that communication in the family unit involves continual exchange of information and includes:

The nurse makes a patient referral to community resource,knowing that such a resource can:

Children of racial minorities are more likely to live in a family that is:

During a family counseling session,the patient,a mother of a 5-year-old son,states,"I don't understand why my husband continually tries to get our son involved in T-ball.My son said the coach and his dad yelled at him and told him the game was lost because he couldn't catch the ball." As a nurse,you know that to maintain a healthy family unit,one of the most important family interactions is to:

The patient who was recently diagnosed with cancer tells the nurse that she is so grateful for her children and family because she does not know what she would do without them.Your patient is exhibiting which one of the following coping responses?

The patient confides that her husband shares only the incidental happenings of his day at work as he reads the paper,and he never tells her that he loves her anymore.She is beginning to wonder if their marriage is getting stale.The nurse recognizes this communication pattern as: