Family
A single mother with 3 children, a lesbian couple, eight residents co-sharing a house.
What is a family?
Results in behavior of some kind. Reduces a person’s objectivity and makes it difficult to see possibilities, make choices and take action.
Is a common emotional experience in stressful and helpless situations.
What is anxiety?
The client is having difficulty concentrating, decreased appetite, insomnia and guilt, five months after a mugging. She is suffering from:
What is PTSD?
This is what the letters ACE mean in regard to correlation with future adult health and well-being and is a measurement of:
What is adverse childhood experiences?
According to Brown, it is as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard and valued.
What is connection?
When a nurse assesses a family system as being healthy, two primary attributes found to be present are:
What are hardiness and resiliency?
The patient is experiencing some narrowing of the perceptual field and seems to focus on immediate concerns. The patient is able to follow directions with assistance. The nurse determines that the patient is experiencing anxiety at this level.
What is a moderate level?
Name three symptoms of PTSD:
What is:
Anger with numbing of other emotions
Exaggerated startle response
Frequent nightmares
Survivor's guilt
This is what the ACE assessment measures.
What is childhood abuse and neglect that effects later in life health and well-being?
The acronym GAS means:
What is General Adaptation Syndrome?
The family that has a unique culture, is considered more as a unified whole than as the sum of its parts with boundaries that separate it from the rest of environment is called this type of theory.
What is a systems theory?
Stress management techniques teach the learner to:
What is changing the reaction to the stressors?
This is the first thing a nurse would do when initially starting a care plan for a client with PTSD.
What is encouraging the client to verbalize thoughts and feelings about the trauma?
These are examples of two things a nurse could do to help decrease a client's ACE scores.
What is offering parenting classes, performing frequent home visits for support, or increase income support for low income families?
The limbic system is most vulnerable in children aged:
What is 0-3?
A nurse plans to use family therapy as a means of assisting a family to cope with their child’s terminal illness. The nurse’s basis for this choice is that:
What is what happens to one, happens to all?
A client is presented with a new diagnosis of breast cancer. She is pacing, having rapid speech, a headache, tachycardia and has an inability to focus. Her level of anxiety is :
What is severe?
This increases the risk of PTSD in the military.
What is multiple deployments?
This is one of the greatest risks for a child/teen having poor outcomes and a higher ACE score is:
What is "no adult supervision"?
The reason to practice ways to achieve resilience is because:
What is the brain has plasticity and new neural networks can be created ?
An example of the protective factors related to family functions are:
What is mutual nurturance and respect?
Anxiety is caused by:
What is a subjective belief or experience?
This includes shame, guilt, sorrow and has a perception of moral transgression.
What is moral injury?
These are two examples of long term effects of high ACE scores.
What are
Asthma, cardiac disease, diabetes, anxiety, depression, fibromyalgia, migraines etc?
In stress, the graded dose response means:
What is the dose of the stressor increases the intensity of the outcome?