a system of ideas, beliefs, and attitudes about the worst of an entity of concept that consciously or
unconsciously binds the family together. ANS: Family values
Patterns of behaviors considered "right in a given society" ANS: norms
What stage or prevention:
health promotion and disease prevention
role of the family RN is to teach families to take responsibility for health and attain health goals by
enjoying a healthy lifestyle ANS: primary prevention
what stage of prevention:
-early detection and and treatment
the role of the family RN is to:
-conduct screening and assessments
-make referrals
- determine patterns of dysfunction
- health teaching ANS: secondary prevention
what stage of prevention:
- management of chronic illness
- rehabilitation and convalescence
role of family RN:
- provide support to families while in the rehabilitation process
- case manager, advocate, and counselor ANS: tertiary prevention
,in family nursing, the first step is __________ ANS: assessment
***assessment is constant throughout the course of treatment
What theory?:
-focuses on the family's response to crisis, resources, and perceptions of a situation.
- illness causing stress that changes the family dynamic
- resources for the family for dealing with stressor(s)
- implications/reality of the event on families and how they will adapt ANS: Family Stress Theory
what theory?:
-comprehensive, holistic perspective assessing the family and family universe (inner and outer
environments)
- family as a social system
- identifies how the family interacts with each other in the family relationships and support each other
effectively to perform their actions ANS: structural functional theory
What theory?:
-looks at the family progression through its lifecycles with predictable stages, tasks, and issues
- limitation ANS: emphasis on the nuclear family ANS: Family developmental theory
Commonly experienced events of the family as a unit through its existence ANS: the family lifecycle
the most functional way of maintaining equilibrium in a family in the face of a change is by the use of
________ ________ ANS: role flexibility
,role changes create _______ during transition ANS: stress
most important way in which we identify social class ANS: occupation
what are the three ways in which we identify social class? ANS: 1. occupation ANS: most important
2. income
3. education ANS: ranked highest in the process of analysis for determining health status outcomes
defined as a unit with distinct part and boundaries, extending over a period of time and with some
identified purpose(s) ANS: system
the central nervous system consists of the _______ and __________ ANS: brain and spinal cord
lobe that is associated with working memory, planning, and insight into our problems ANS: frontal lobe
primitive part of the brain ANS: involved in swallowing, arousal, and breathing ANS: brainstem
puts emotional meaning on a stimulus, forms environmental memories and is involved in rage and fear
ANS: amygdala
involved in learning, processing information into memories, and assigning the time and the place to
memories ANS: hippocampus
involved with emotions
- made up of the rim of the medial (innermost) portions of the frontal, parietal, and temporal lobes and
overlies the brainstem ANS: limbic system
, carry sensory information TOWARD the central nervous system and brain ANS: afferent neurons
carry motor information AWAY from the central nervous system and toward muscles to cause
movemenet ANS: efferent neurons
inhibitory neurotransmitter in the nervous system ANS: Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)
excitatory neurotransmitter in the nervous system ANS: glutamate
responsible for myelin formation in the CNS ANS: oligodendroglia cells
disease of the nerve cells that lead into the basal ganglia resulting in shuffled gait, tremors, rigidity, etc.
ANS: Parkinson's disease
termination of a neurotransmitter action in SNS requires uptake into a _______ _________ ANS:
presynaptic neuron
recovery emerges from ________ ANS: hope
emotional bond to another person ANS: attachment
the first attachment theorist ANS: John Bowlby
Attachment style?:
marked by distress when separated from caregivers and are joy when the caregiver returns.