NURS 235 EXAM 3 Questions And
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family - ANSWER✔✔ -can be defined biologically, legally, or as a social network
with personally constructed ties and ideologies
-represent more than a set of individuals
-more than a sum of its individual members
-diverse
nuclear family - ANSWER✔✔ Mother, father and children living as a unit
extended family - ANSWER✔✔ a family that extends beyond the nuclear family,
including grandparents, aunts, uncles, and other relatives, who all live nearby or in
one household.
single-parent family - ANSWER✔✔ a family in which only one parent is present
to care for the children
blended family - ANSWER✔✔ a married couple and their children from previous
marriages
alternative family - ANSWER✔✔ -Two or more people who live together as a
family yet who are not related by blood, marriage, or adoption
-homosexual family
-grandparents taking care of the children
,family durability - ANSWER✔✔ System of support and structure within a family
that extends beyond the walls of the household; if parents remarry, this will change
this
family resiliency - ANSWER✔✔ ability to cope with expected and unexpected
stressors; family member is getting surgery and family is able to cope with this
stressor
family diversity - ANSWER✔✔ Uniqueness of each family unit
family as context - ANSWER✔✔ -Health and development of individual members
-we perceive a pt as an individual member within a family; health status and how
the disease will affect the family
-focus: individual members
family as patient - ANSWER✔✔ -family patterns and processes
-decision makers in the family; family resources to deal with stressors
-family as a whole unit
family as a system - ANSWER✔✔ -both family members and family unit
-combo of family as context and family as the patient
family structure - ANSWER✔✔ -the ongoing membership of the family
-the pattern of relationships: rigid or flexible
family roles and functions - ANSWER✔✔ -members working outside the home
, -type of work and satisfaction with work
-household roles and responsibilities
-how tasks are distributed
-how child-rearing responsibilities are shared
-satisfaction with roles and way decisions are made
family caregiving - ANSWER✔✔ -The routine provision of services and personal
care activities for a family member by spouses, siblings, friends, or parents
-Activities include finding resources, providing personal care, monitoring for
complications or side effects, providing instrumental activities of daily living and
ongoing emotional support and decision making
caregiver role strain - ANSWER✔✔ Difficulty in performing the family caregiver
role.
During a home visit
Risk for caregiver role strain - ANSWER✔✔ not enough knowledge; during
discharge
homeostatic regulation - ANSWER✔✔ -sleep drive
-mediated by inhibiting neurotransmitters (somnogen) that will make you sleepy
-longer you are awake, the more concentration of neurotransmitters you have-> act
on the brain to promote sleep and then decreases with sleep bc they no longer have
to keep you awake
circadian rhythm - ANSWER✔✔ -the biological clock; regular bodily rhythms that
occur on a 24-hour cycle
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