Chapter 04: Health of the Individual, Family, and Community
A nurse is assessing a family with adolescents. The family consists of a father, mother, a 13-year-old son, a 14-year-old son from a previous marriage, and a 16-year-old daughter. Which statement by the parents would lead the nurse to suspect a potential risk factor for altered health with this family?
"Our 16-year-old just seems to butt heads with us at every turn"
A nurse is conducting a presentation for a local community group about families and current family structures. When describing a cohabiting family, which information would the nurse include? Select all that apply.
- The members live together for a variety of reasons. - Members may include unmarried retired individuals.
A nurse is reading a journal article about families and the typical structures commonly seen. The nurse demonstrates understanding of the article by identifying which type as a family structure? Select all that apply.
-Nuclear -Single adult -Blended -Extended
The nurse is explaining the expected developmental tasks of a typical family with adolescents. Which of the following would be incorrect for the nurse to include?
Adjustment to retirement
A nurse is working with a single-parent family. When planning the care for this family, which need should the nurse anticipate as being a priority concern?
Financial concerns
The nurse is aware that basic client needs must be met before a client can focus on higher ones. According to Maslow's hierarchy of human needs, which example would be the highest priority for a client after physiologic needs have been met?
Grab bars are installed in a client bathroom to facilitate safe showering.
A nurse is providing care to a client who is feeling lonely and isolated. In an effort to develop a trusting nurse-client relationship, the nurse exhibits a caring attitude, ensures the client's privacy, and spends time with the client to promote therapeutic communication. The nurse is meeting which category of client needs?
Love and belonging
A client with persistent nausea is diagnosed with somatization. What is the appropriate nursing action when the client reports nausea?
sit with the client and ask them about their feelings
A nurse is caring for an adolescent who has just lost a leg in a motor vehicle accident. Which human need would the nurse most likely need to address?
Self-esteem needs
A nurse is working at a community clinic that serves mostly families with young children. What would be a priority intervention for clients in this developmental stage?
Setting up parenting classes
Parents raising two school-aged children incorporate their religious beliefs into the family's daily life. The family's beliefs regarding religion include dietary considerations, worship practices, attitudes, and values. This is an example of which function of the family?
Socialization
The nurse is assessing the communication style of the client. Communication is an example of which dimension of the individual?
Sociocultural dimension
An adolescent confides in the school nurse that the adolescent is arguing daily with her mother and often wonders whether her mother loves her. The school nurse recognizes that the student faces which of the following risk factors for altered family health?
A psychosocial risk factor
A client says, "I live in a small community on the northwest side of the city." Why does the nurse consider it significant that the client reports living in a community rather than a neighborhood?
Community indicates people who share similar characteristics
Which nursing diagnosis is the priority according to Maslow's hierarchy of basic needs?
Constipation related to decreased mobility
A nurse in the emergency department assesses a 3-year-old child with a fractured femur, a hematoma on the back of the head, and multiple 1-cm round scabs and blisters on the upper back. The parents state that their child sustained the injuries by falling out of a high chair. What is the best action for the nurse to take?
Report the suspected child abuse to Child Protective Services.
A new graduate nurse asks a nurse manager working at the community health center, "I've heard people talk about community health nursing and community-based nursing. Is there a difference?" Which response by the nurse manager would be appropriate? You Selected:
"Community health nursing involves care for entire populations whereas community-based nursing focuses on individuals and families in that population."
A nurse is caring for a client newly diagnosed with diabetes mellitus and developing a holistic plan of care. For this plan of care to be successful, it must what?
Address the disease but also incorporate the mind, body, and spirit.
A nurse is assessing a family and identifying where the family is in the family life cycle. During this assessment, the nurse applies Duvall's theory. Which theory forms the basis for Duvall's theory? You Selected:
Erikson's theory of psychosocial development
The nurse is assessing the family structure of the client. The family household comprises two parents, three children, and one grandparent. The nurse recognizes that this is a(n):
extended family.