When providing care for families, of what should the nurse be ...

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When providing care for families, of what should the nurse be aware? (Select all that apply.)
 
  a. Family hardiness is the internal strength and durability of the family.
  b. Resiliency helps to evaluate healthy responses in stressful times.
  c. Good health is always highly valued within the family unit.
  d. Along-term illness in one family member affects the entire family
  e. Family members may be a primary force for coping.

Question 2

The nursing assistive personnel (NAP) is working on a busy pediatric unit in a hospital. She has a cut on her hand that has not been kept covered.
 
  It hurts her to wash her hands or sanitize them, so she has been providing patient care without performing hand hygiene. Several of the patients on the pediatric unit have suffered hospital-associated infections of rotavirus. This was thought to be a result of the NAP's lack of hand hygiene. This type of disease transmission can best be described as: a. indirect.
  b. natural active immunity.
  c. direct.
  d. natural passive immunity.

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Answer to Question 1

A, B, D, E
Family hardiness is the internal strengths and durability of the family unit. A sense of control over the outcome of life, a view of change as beneficial and growth producing, and an active rather than passive orientation in adapting to stressful events characterize family hardiness. Resiliency helps to evaluate healthy responses when individuals and families are experiencing stressful events. Resources and techniques a family or individuals within the family use to maintain a balance or level of health assist in understanding a family's level of resiliency. Good health is not always highly valued; in fact, harmful practices are acceptable in some families. Some of these practices might include poor dietary habits, such as high caloric, high fat diets. A long-term illness in one of the family members affects the well-being and health of the entire family. In addition, long term habits, such as smoking also influence the health of members in the family unit. Although illness strains relationships, research indicates that family members have the potential to be a primary force for coping.

Answer to Question 2

C
Hands of health care workers often transmit microorganisms. This mode of transmission is called direct transmission. Indirect transmission occurs when microorganisms are transferred to health care workers' hands from contaminated items that are part of patient care, such as a blood pressure cuff or a bedside table. Natural active immunity results from having a certain disease, such as measles, and mounting an immune response that usually lasts a lifetime. Natural passive immunity is the acquisition of an antibody by one person from another, such as a baby born with its mother's antibodies. The baby acquires these antibodies through the placenta during the last months of pregnancy. This type of immunity is of short duration, usually lasting only a few weeks to months.