INTRO TO PROFESSIONAL RN — EXAM 2 (CHAPT. 8, 20, 21, & 25) Flashcards

Question

Know family hardiness

Answer 1

Hardiness and resiliency moderate a family's stress and thus affect its health. **Actively able to deal with a family’s divorce and remarriage**

Answer 2

“Connected with/to” **being responsive to their familial needs**

Answer 3

— Genetics/Diseases — Social history Medical diagnosis, demographic information, overview of health status, alterations that could cause immediate concern, last set of vital signs, medication (including PRN), diet, activity, any specific equipment they may require, advanced directive and families involvement in care

Answer 4

— **Interpretation:** process of discovering, determining, or assigning meaning — **Analysis:** Skills used to ID assumptions, reasons, themes, and the evidence used in making arguments or offering explanations — **Inference:** Skills that enable us to draw conclusions from reasons, evidence, observations, experiences, or our values and beliefs — **Evaluation:** Skills used to assess the credibility of the claims people make or post, and to assess the quality of the reasoning people display when they make arguments or give explanations — **Explanation:** Process of justifying what we ave decided to do or not to believe — **Self-Regulation:** Context of critical thinking relates to monitoring and, if necessary, correcting any mistakes that may have occurred in the process of interpreting, analyzing, inferring, evaluating, or explaining

Answer 5

— Interpretation — Analysis — Inference — Evaluation — Explanation — Self-Regulation

Answer 6

— A family is what an individual believes the family to be. — It includes a set of interacting individuals who are related through biology or enduring commitments who usually socialize with each other

Answer 7

— Fastest growing segment of the homeless population is families with children, including complete nuclear families and single-parent families — Affects the functioning, health, and well-being of the family and its members — Children of homeless families are often in fair or poor health and have higher rates of **asthma, ear infections, stomach problems, mental illness, poor dental health, and poor immunization documentation**

Answer 8

**Discuss patient issues with the family** Based on the _Caring Assessment Tool (CAT), “since I have been a patient here, the nurses…” * Help me understand how I am thinking. * Ask me how I think treatment is going. * Help me explore alternative ways of dealing. * Ask me what I know. * Help me figure out questions to ask.

Answer 9

— *Nuclear:* Consists of two adults (and sometimes one or more children — *Blended:* Formed when parents bring unrelated children from prior or foster parenting relationships into a new, joint living situation. — *Extended:* Includes relatives (grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins) in addition to the nuclear family — *Single-Parent:* Formed when one parent leaves the nuclear family because of death, divorce, or desertion or when a single person decides to have or adopt a child — *Alternative Patterns of Relationships:* Include multiadult households, “skip-generation” families (e.g., grandparents caring for grandchildren, which commonly results from legal interventions such as when the parent is absent and there is no other parent available), communal groups with children, “nonfamilies” (adults living alone), and cohabitating partners

Answer 10

A continuous process characterized by open-mindedness, continual inquiry, and perseverance combined with a willingness to look at each unique patient situation and identify the assumptions that are true and relevant. — Diagnostic reasoning — Clinical decision making — Clinical inference

Answer 11

— Identify the important data in each clinical situation — Imagine and explore alternatives — Consider ethical principles and care standards — Makes informed decisions about patient care.

Answer 12

*What the RN _can_ do* — Recognize an issue — Analyze information r/t the issue — Evaluate information — Draw conclusions ________________________ *How can the RN be effective in critical thinking?* — Fully assess a patient's health condition — Focus on the important issues at hand in any clinical situation — Make decisions that produce desired outcomes — Utilize evidence-based knowledge

Answer 13

**Open-ended** — asking a patient how they want us to help them with their problem— open-ended **Focused** — asking a patient a yes/no question, direct **Ethnohistory** — “what is your ethnic background” Social organization** — “who are your family members?” Caring beliefs and practice — “which caregivers do you seek help when you are sick?” Contract — “how different is this problem from the one you had one month ago?”

Answer 14

A formal and informal system of advantages and disadvantages tied to membership in social groups — Oppression occurs at individual, cultural, and institutional levels, affecting individual and group experiences. *e.g.* a patient experiencing oppression has limited access to resources such as health care, housing, education, employment, and legal services. In

Answer 15

* How did I act? * Why did I take such an action? * What could I have done differently? * What should I do in a similar situation in the future?

Answer 16

If a new RN, seek assistance prior to.

Answer 17

**— method to patient’s lives and experiences** —The acknowledgement that everyone has their own unique experiences of discrimination and oppression and we must consider everything and anything that can marginalise people – *gender, race, class, sexual orientation, physical ability, etc.*

Answer 18

— Divide the tasks and each of you takes responsibility for those assigned to you. — Some couples choose to divide the tasks equally, while others assign proportionally more tasks to one partner who perhaps has a less demanding career or a greater desire to get things done.