Chapter 2 Family, Culture, and Complementary Therapies

Chapter 2   Family, Culture, and Complementary Therapies

Complete Chapter Questions With Answers

Sample Questions Are Posted Below

1) A couple who came to the United States two years ago with their two children are seeing the nurse in the community clinic. The nurse knows their family is acculturating when the mother makes which statement?

1. “The children are much less well-behaved than they used to be.”
2. “Our diet now includes hamburgers and French fries.”
3. “We celebrate the same holidays that we used to at home.”
4. “When the children leave the house, I worry about them.”

Answer:  2

Explanation:  2. Inclusion of fast food in the diet is an indication of acculturation, because it shows a belief in the nutritional value of these foods and an acceptance of purchasing fast food as equivalent in value to home-cooked meals.

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Cognitive Level:  Understanding

Client Need/Sub:  Psychosocial Integrity: Cultural Awareness/Cultural Influences on Health

Standards:  QSEN Competencies: I. B. 3. Provide patient-centered care with sensitivity and respect for the diversity of human experience. | AACN Essentials Competencies: VII. 7. Collaborate with other healthcare professionals and patients to provide spiritually and culturally appropriate health promotion and disease and injury prevention interventions. | NLN Competencies: Relationship-Centered Care: Appreciate the patient as a whole person, with his or her own life story and ideas about the meaning of health or illness. | Nursing/Integrated Concepts: Nursing Process: Assessment

Learning Outcome:  1 Compare the characteristics of different types of families.

MNL LO:  1.1.1  Relate the effect of culture and family to the childbearing experience.

2) Which of the following best describes a nuclear family?

1. A family is composed of an unmarried woman who chooses to conceive or adopt without a life partner.
2. Children live in a household with both biologic parents and no other relatives or persons.
3. A couple shares household and childrearing responsibilities with parents, siblings, or other relatives.
4. The head of the household is widowed, divorced, abandoned, or separated or most often the mother remains unmarried.

Answer:  2

Explanation:  2. In the nuclear family, children live in a household with both biologic parents and no other relatives or persons.

Page Ref: 19

Cognitive Level:  Understanding

Client Need/Sub:  Health Promotion and Maintenance: Developmental Stages and Transitions

Standards:  QSEN Competencies: I. A. 2. Describe how diverse cultural, ethnic, and social backgrounds function as sources of patient, family, and community values. | AACN Essentials Competencies: VII. 3. Assess health/illness beliefs, values, attitudes, and practices of individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations. | NLN Competencies: Relationship-Centered Care: The role of family, culture, and community in a person’s development. | Nursing/Integrated Concepts: Nursing Process: Assessment

Learning Outcome:  1 Compare the characteristics of different types of families.

MNL LO:  1.1.1  Relate the effect of culture and family to the childbearing experience.

3) What is the term for when children alternate between two homes, spending varying amounts of time with each parent in a situation called co-parenting and usually involving joint custody?

1. Blended or reconstituted nuclear family
2. Extended kin network family
3. Binuclear family
4. Extended family

Answer:  3

Explanation:  3. A binuclear family is a postdivorce family in which the biologic children are members of two nuclear households, with parenting by both the father and the mother.

Page Ref: 20

Cognitive Level:  Understanding

Client Need/Sub:  Health Promotion and Maintenance: Developmental Stages and Transitions

Standards:  QSEN Competencies: I. A. 2. Describe how diverse cultural, ethnic, and social backgrounds function as sources of patient, family, and community values. | AACN Essentials Competencies: VII. 3. Assess health/illness beliefs, values, attitudes, and practices of individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations. | NLN Competencies: Relationship-Centered Care: The role of family, culture, and community in a person’s development. | Nursing/Integrated Concepts: Nursing Process: Assessment

Learning Outcome:  1 Compare the characteristics of different types of families.

MNL LO:  1.1.1  Relate the effect of culture and family to the childbearing experience.

4) Duvall’s eight stages in the family life cycle of a traditional nuclear family have been used as the foundation for contemporary models that describe the developmental processes and role expectations for different family types. Which of the following is an example of Stage IV of this family life cycle?

1. Families launching young adults (all children leave home)
2. Families with preschool-age children (oldest child is between 2.5 and 6 years of age)
3. Middle-aged parents (empty nest through retirement)
4. Families with schoolchildren (oldest child is between 6 and 13 years of age)

Answer:  4

Explanation:  4. Stage IV is families with schoolchildren (oldest child is between 6 and 13 years of age).

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Cognitive Level:  Understanding

Client Need/Sub:  Health Promotion and Maintenance: Developmental Stages and Transitions

Standards:  QSEN Competencies: I. A. 2. Describe how diverse cultural, ethnic, and social backgrounds function as sources of patient, family, and community values. | AACN Essentials Competencies: VII. 3. Assess health/illness beliefs, values, attitudes, and practices of individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations. | NLN Competencies: Relationship-Centered Care: The role of family, culture, and community in a person’s development. | Nursing/Integrated Concepts: Nursing Process: Implementation

Learning Outcome:  2 Identify the stages of a family life cycle.

MNL LO:  1.1.1  Relate the effect of culture and family to the childbearing experience.