Chapter 7 Familial HEALTH Traditions

Chapter 7   Familial HEALTH Traditions

Complete Chapter Questions With Answers

Sample Questions Are Posted Below

1) An older patient talks about being given preparations as a child that were considered patent medications. The nurse recalls these medications included which items? Select all that apply:

1. Alcohol
2. Opium
3. Cocaine
4. Aspirin

Answer:  1, 2, 3

Explanation:  1. Throughout most of history, patent medicines contained alcohol.

2. Throughout most of history, patent medicines could contain opium.
3. Throughout most of history, patent medicines could contain cocaine.
4. Patent medicines did not contain aspirin.

Cognitive Level:  Analyzing

Patient Need:  Physiological Integrity

Patient Need Sub:  Pharmacological and Parenteral Therapies

Nursing/Integrated Concepts:  Nursing Process: Implementation

Learning Outcome:  LO01 – Trace your family’s heritage.

2) A patient desires to learn more about his or her family’s heritage. On which research topic would the nurse suggest the patient focus?

1. The origin of a family’s surname
2. Historical events occurring within the United States
3. How members of a family lived their lives
4. Events leading to desire to research a family background

Answer:  1

Explanation:  1. Researching the origin of a family’s surname begins to provide background information about the family’s heritage.

2. Historical events occurring within the United States may or may not have bearing on a family’s heritage background.
3. How members of a family lived their lives may or may not provide information about a heritage background.
4. Events leading to the decision to research a family background may or may not be indicators of its heritage.

Cognitive Level:  Applying

Patient Need:  Psychosocial Integrity

Nursing/Integrated Concepts:  Nursing Process: Assessment

Learning Outcome:  LO01 – Trace your family’s heritage.

3) Why is the understanding of family heritage important? Select all that apply:

1. Knowing the methods of socialization passed down among families can explain social behaviors today.
2. It can provide answers to questions regarding why family members behaved as they did.
3. New traditions can be discovered and incorporated into daily life.
4. Health practices can be altered as a result of understanding heritage.

Answer:  1, 2

Explanation:  1. Drawing attention to ethnocultural traditions within a family heritage can explain familial behaviors today, as socialization practices were passed on by parents or other significant family members.

2. Many answers about family behaviors are obtained through exploring family heritage.
3. New traditions can be discovered through exploration of heritage, but heritage is explored more to understand why certain behaviors and practices are done.
4. Health/HEALTH practices may be understood better within the context of understanding heritage, but not necessarily for the purpose of change.

Cognitive Level:  Analyzing

Patient Need:  Psychosocial Integrity

Nursing/Integrated Concepts:  Nursing Process: Evaluation

Learning Outcome:  LO01 – Trace your family’s heritage.

4) A female patient recalls being told about various childhood health/HEALTH practices by her mother. Why is heritage exploration often done through women?

1. Women are the guardians of the family’s health/HEALTH and nurturance.
2. Women live longer than men and can remember events better.
3. Women have a better recall of events within a family context.
4. Women are the authority figures within families.

Answer:  1

Explanation:  1. Women are the traditional authority figures for guarding a family’s health/HEALTH and nurturing the family. Therefore, heritage exploration is within their purview.

2. While women traditionally live longer than men, this does not mean they have a better recall of events.
3. Women may or may not have a better recall of family events.
4. Within some cultures women are the authority figures in the family, but not in others, so heritage exploration may not be done through them.

Cognitive Level:  Analyzing

Patient Need:  Psychosocial Integrity

Nursing/Integrated Concepts:  Nursing Process: Assessment

Learning Outcome:  LO01 – Trace your family’s heritage.