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NSG 527 Exam Study Guide | Actual Questions and Answers Latest Updated 2025/2026, Exams of Nursing

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What is the purpose of family psychoeducation? - ✔✔- Helps improve knowledge base of any type of illness - Provides information about recovery stages - Empowers problem-solving skills within the family What does family psychoeducation NOT do? - ✔✔Does not advocate for any vocational rehab How does family meet the needs of society? - ✔✔Helps mediate between society expectations and personal needs of the individual client How does the family meet the needs of its members? - ✔✔Facilitates ongoing development of the personality of each individual Who is affected by a member of a family having issues/illness? - ✔✔The whole family How can the advanced practice nurse positively impact the family when treating a member of the family with an illness? - ✔✔- Help promote healthy ways - Identify other health issues other family members have What are some major differences in gay and lesbian families? - ✔✔- Developmental stages can differ - No one uniform family structure - Increase in stigma

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NSG 527 Exam Study Guide | Actual Questions and Answers Latest Updated
2025/2026 (Graded A+)
What is the purpose of family psychoeducation? - ✔✔- Helps improve knowledge base of any type of
illness
- Provides information about recovery stages
- Empowers problem-solving skills within the family
What does family psychoeducation NOT do? - ✔✔Does not advocate for any vocational rehab
How does family meet the needs of society? - ✔✔Helps mediate between society expectations and
personal needs of the individual client
How does the family meet the needs of its members? - ✔✔Facilitates ongoing development of the
personality of each individual
Who is affected by a member of a family having issues/illness? - ✔✔The whole family
How can the advanced practice nurse positively impact the family when treating a member of the family
with an illness? - ✔✔- Help promote healthy ways
- Identify other health issues other family members have
What are some major differences in gay and lesbian families? - ✔✔- Developmental stages can differ
- No one uniform family structure
- Increase in stigma
What is the significant difference between the 5 types of family nursing practice? - ✔✔The
conceptualization of the family
What are the three levels of prevention? - ✔✔1. Primary
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2025 /202 6 (Graded A+)

What is the purpose of family psychoeducation? - ✔✔- Helps improve knowledge base of any type of illness

  • Provides information about recovery stages
  • Empowers problem-solving skills within the family What does family psychoeducation NOT do? - ✔✔Does not advocate for any vocational rehab How does family meet the needs of society? - ✔✔Helps mediate between society expectations and personal needs of the individual client How does the family meet the needs of its members? - ✔✔Facilitates ongoing development of the personality of each individual Who is affected by a member of a family having issues/illness? - ✔✔The whole family How can the advanced practice nurse positively impact the family when treating a member of the family with an illness? - ✔✔- Help promote healthy ways
  • Identify other health issues other family members have What are some major differences in gay and lesbian families? - ✔✔- Developmental stages can differ
  • No one uniform family structure
  • Increase in stigma What is the significant difference between the 5 types of family nursing practice? - ✔✔The conceptualization of the family What are the three levels of prevention? - ✔✔1. Primary
  1. Secondary
  2. Tertiary What is primary prevention? - ✔✔Health promotion and disease prevention What is secondary prevention? - ✔✔Early detection and treatment What is tertiary prevention? - ✔✔Managing chronic illness, rehabilitation and convalescence In what two specific areas does the American Nurses Association incorporate the family as a client? - ✔✔1. Community health nursing
  3. Pediatric nursing Who believed that the family is the basic conditioning unit? - ✔✔Dorothy Orem Who believed in clean air, environmental factors, and home health nursing? - ✔✔Florence Nightingale What is stress theory? - ✔✔Emphasizes a family's response to/ how they manage a crisis, including resources they possess and those that are available to them, as well as their own perception of the crisis/situation What is the developmental approach? - ✔✔The family's progression through different stages of tasks or issues through the lifecycle What is the structural-functional approach? - ✔✔A holistic, comprehensive approach that incorporates not only the family, but their inner and outer environments/universe What is the family lifecycle career? - ✔✔Successive areas of stages of experiences of a family as a unit What is a system? - ✔✔A unit with distinct parts; a family
  • is holistic
  • is supported by peers and allies
  • is supported through relationship and social networks
  • is culturally based and influenced
  • is supported by addressing trauma
  • Involves individual, family, and community strengths and responsibility
  • is based on respect What is an example of recovery emerges from hope? - ✔✔A client had a mental health issue and through successive treatment felt empowered or optimistic and make statements such as "I think I may be able to overcome this disease" How is change determined when evaluating a family? - ✔✔Situationally A person's perception of the issue is important in deciding whether they will accept treatment or change How can the advanced practice nurse involve the family in the treatment of their issues? - ✔✔By asking questions... Ask them how they have handled issues before, coping strategies, or how have you resolved issues. Do not advise them to follow the prescribed treatment. Empower them and allow them to have input What can be helpful when dealing with families of other cultures? - ✔✔Identify that we can be less judgmental about other people's behaviors. This is usually due to us trying to identify our own beliefs and values and understand why we have them. It helps us to understand other cultures. What can lead to increase in stigmatization, impaired communication, and inaccurate assessments? - ✔✔Insensitive or cultural ignorance issues What is the health dimension of recovery? - ✔✔Make information based on what is supportive for you in your wellbeing and engage in meaningful activities

What is the community dimension of recovery? - ✔✔Build a relationship and social networks What is the home dimension of recovery? - ✔✔Stable and safe place to live Example: Coming out of inpatient hospitalization and going into a residential treatment recovery program (a stable place to live) What are the three social class determinants? - ✔✔Occupation Education Income Which of the social class determinants is considered the most important? - ✔✔Occupational status What is an autocratic family typology? - ✔✔Rigid,strict parenting style that leaves little room for input from other family members AKA Authoritarian What is a democratic family typology? - ✔✔Parenting style characterized by joint-decision making, mutual respect, autonomy, and responsibility. All family members have input What is a common trend due to family power? - ✔✔Increase in the democratic family What is the advantage of informal roles? - ✔✔Help to maintain homeostasis and balance so that emotional needs can be met What does the family role structure do? - ✔✔Maintains equilibrium and balance If a member is ill and leaves the role, the functional role structure believes that the role should go unfilled until the person returns. There is flexibility with the roles to shift as needed. What are family values? - ✔✔A system of ideas and beliefs

What is Parkinson's disease? - ✔✔A disease of the nerve cells that lead to the basal ganglia in the brain Results in tremors and shuffling gait What is the limbic system? - ✔✔The area of the brain that is made up of the innermost portions of the frontal, temporal, and parietal lobes and that overlies the brainstem What does termination of a neurotransmitter action in the sympathetic nervous system lead to? - ✔✔Reuptake in the presynaptic neuron