Chapter 4: Health of the Individual, Family, and Community
A young couple who have been married less than a year are having difficulty with adjusting to parenting. What is a contributing factor to this level of maladjustment?
Limited time in learning to be a marital partner
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
Unmarried individuals in a committed partnership living together is called what?
cohabitation
Which basic needs area of Maslow's hierarchy of human needs is met when the nurse arranges for the client's clergy to visit after visiting hours?
self-actualization needs
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
This function of the family involves providing emotional comfort to family members
Affective and coping
A home health nurse is visiting a family after the recent death of their matriarch. The nurse observed that the family is dressed In black, all of the mirrors are covered, and that the immediate family is dressed in black, all of the mirrors are covered, and that the immediate family is sitting on square wooden boxes instead of chairs the nurse asks what is happening, and is told, "We are Jewish, and the family is 'Sitting Shiva`." This family is fulfilling which family function?
Affective and coping functions
Risk factors that are related to genetics, the brain, health habits, and medical issues
Biological
Another form of nuclear family, formed when parents bring unrelated children from previous relationships together to form a new family
Blended family
Risk factors that are characterized by vulnerability to negative social and environmental influences, such as peers and underage drinking
Developmental
What is an example of a community risk factor?
Children are kept inside on a sunny day due to a lack of recreational opportunities
Composed of family members, including aunts, uncles, and grandparents, who live in close geographic proximity to one another.
Extended family
The nurse is assessing a family parented by a 60 year old grandmother and three school age grandchildren. The nurse is aware that which problem may occur in a single-parent family at a greater level than in other types of families
Increased financial concerns
Risk factors that are habits or behaviors that people choose to engage in such as smoking and exercise
Lifestyle
A nurse caring for a 25-year old client who has recently been diagnosed with testicular cancer knows that this client's illness will impact every aspect of life. What developmental task is likely to be affected
Marrying and starting a family
During the nurse's admission interview the client says, "I don't get too much rest because I am in nursing school and work full time to support myself and my kids." The nurse classifies this statement as an issue at which level of Maslow's basic needs?
Physiologic
What are Maslow's hierarchy of needs from lower level to higher level?
Physiologic, safety and security, love and belonging, self esteem, and self actualization
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?
Psychosocial risk factors
The highest level of hierarchy of needs which include the need for people to reach their full potential through the development of their unique capabilities
Self-actualization needs
A nurse is caring for an adolescent who 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 the developmental stage?
Setting up parenting classes
The nurse is assessing the communication style of the client. Communication is an example of which dimension of the individual?
Sociocultural dimension
Which statement is true regarding Friedman's theory of family-centered nursing care?
The role of the family is essential in every level nursing practice