A nurse enters an inpatient room and finds the family disagreeing about the client's living arrangements after discharge. Which information should the nurse provide when teaching techniques to resolve family conflicts?
A. All family members should use past incidents to make their point.
B. One family member should act as a gatekeeper in order to avoid family confrontation.
C. One family member should act as a compromiser to preserve harmony in the family system.
D. All family members should respect differing opinions and use compromise and negotiation.
Question 2
A 30-year-old client seeking therapy states, My mom cries when she is not included in all my social activities and thinks of my friends as her own.
How would the nurse describe the boundaries between this family's parent and child subsystems? A. The boundaries are rigid.
B. The boundaries are restructured.
C. The boundaries are enmeshed.
D. The boundaries are disengaged.
The nurse conducts the health history as the first step in the nursing assessment
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The Bush Family
The Mulleta family of Ethiopia, described in the opening vignette.
Position the client
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