Nursing Art and Science:Family-Centered Care
Overview
Maternity and Pediatrics
- Selected emerging health trends/issues/challenges
- Nutrition
- Interprofessional Collaboration
- Health promotion
- Evidence-based practice
- Social determinants of health
- Family-centered care
- Cultural safety, humility, and anti-racist practices
- Trauma and violence-informed practices
- Teaching and learning theory application and strategies
Maternity
Reproductive Health
- Genetics
- Conception
- Sexual health
- Family planning
Pregnancy - Antepartum
- Fetal Development
- Fetal well-being
- Maternal physiological, psycho-social, and emotional changes
- Prenatal care
- Healthy beginnings
Pregnancy - Intrapartum
- Maternal physiological, psycho-social, and emotional changes
- Labor
- Fetal assessment
- Delivery/Birth
- Cesarean section (peri-operative)
Pregnancy - Postpartum
- Maternal physiological, psycho-social, and emotional changes
- Assessment and care
- Discharge planning and teaching
- Childbearing families – role transitions
Pediatrics
Growth and Development
- Individual
- Epigenetics
Infants, Children, and Adolescents
- Anatomical and physiological differences between adults and children
- Physiological variations and nursing management
- Communicable diseases
- Immunization
- Child safety
- Illness and injury prevention
- Communication
Pharmacology
- Developmental pharmacology/ontogeny
- Pediatric medication calculations
Pain
- Assessment in infants, children, and adolescents
- Culturally safe pain assessment
- Pharmacological management
- Non-pharmacological management
Vulnerability
- Separation
- Fear and anxiety
- Trust
- Atraumatic care and psychosocial needs
- Abuse and neglect
- Legal and ethical issues in pediatrics (e.g., informed consent, confidentiality, decision-making)
Faculty will facilitate the student's integration of nursing theory and promote the development of critical inquiry, clinical reasoning and judgment through learning activities such as lectures, group discussions, client-based scenarios, and using electronic resources.
Upon the successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
- Synthesize knowledge to formulate client-centred nursing decisions for the provision of safe, competent, ethical, compassionate, and evidence-informed care for childbearing and child-rearing families, infants, children, and adolescents;
- Examine health issues and trends relevant to pediatric and maternity populations through critical inquiry, reflection, and analytical reasoning;
- Employ a relational perspective to explore how childbearing and child-rearing families' experiences are contextually situated;
- Apply theories of growth and development and teaching and learning principles to promote health and prevent illness/injury for clients;
- Describe the role of the nurse within an interprofessional team working with pediatric and maternity clients and their family members;
- Demonstrate awareness of how family-centered care informs nursing practice with childbearing and child-rearing families.
Requisites
Course Guidelines
Course Guidelines for previous years are viewable by selecting the version desired. If you took this course and do not see a listing for the starting semester / year of the course, consider the previous version as the applicable version.
Course Transfers to Other Institutions
Below are current transfer agreements from Douglas College to other institutions for the current course guidelines only. For a full list of transfer details and archived courses, please see the BC Transfer Guide.
Institution | Transfer details for NURS 3311 | |
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There are no applicable transfer credits for this course. |
Course Offerings
Fall 2025
CRN | Days | Instructor | Status | More details |
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CRN
34808
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Wed | Instructor last name
Chatha
Instructor first name
Rupinder
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Course status
Open
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CRN | Days | Instructor | Status | More details |
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CRN
34809
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Tue | Instructor last name
Mants
Instructor first name
Tara
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Course status
Open
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