Course

Relational Practice: Engaging with Families

Faculty
Health Sciences
Department
Nursing
Course code
NURS 3316
Credits
3.00
Semester length
15 weeks
Max class size
36
Method(s) of instruction
Lecture
Course designation
None
Industry designation
None
Typically offered
To be determined

Overview

Course description
This course builds on knowledge and processes for relational nursing practice introduced in the previous Relational Practice course. Students integrate and apply relational practices and knowledge of family theory to facilitate health promoting partnerships with families. Using a relational perspective and an ethic of caring, students participate in interactive classroom activities, reflexive exercises, and examine theories, methods, and research relevant to the topics.
Course content

 Family

  • Forms
  • Social trends and issues affecting families
  • Health and health promotion
  • Common, predictable, and emerging health challenges and transitions

 Theoretical foundations and tools

  • Family nursing theory
  • Genogram and ecomap

 Family nursing

  • Family-centered care
  • Family (systems) nursing
  • Family as context
  • Barriers/issues/trends

 Socio-cultural

  • Diversity
  • Models of cultural assessment
  • Cultural safety, humility, and anti-racist practices

 Vulnerability

  • Social determinants of health
  • Oppression
  • Stigma and shame
  • Abuse
  • Emotional labour

 Relational capacities

 Relational inquiry

  • Shared meaning

 Relational power

  • Family power hierarchy and decision-making
    • Affective family functioning (conflict, stress) 
    • Health care system
    • Nursing’s position

 Partnership

  • Agency and action of client and nurse
  • Advocacy

 Communication

  • Family communication patterns and processes
  • Respect
Learning activities
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.
 
Means of assessment

This is a graded course, and the means of assessment are consistent with the Douglas College Evaluation Policy. The instructor's course outline will be available to students by the first class and list the evaluative components of the course.

Learning outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  1. Explain issues and trends relevant to family nursing and the relevance to nursing practice with families;
  2. Describe how historical, social, economic, political, cultural, and other personal and contextual factors shape families’ experiences of health and healthcare;
  3. Critically examine barriers or challenges to enacting relational nursing practice with families;
  4. Integrate family theories to inform the provision of safe, ethical, competent, compassionate, and evidence-informed nursing care with families;
  5. Apply knowledge, attitudes, skills, and abilities that facilitate the development of nurse-family partnerships to promote health and prevent illness or injury;
  6. Reflect on integrating relational practice when caring for clients and families.
Textbook materials

The instructor's course outline will be available to students by the first class and list the required textbooks and materials that students must purchase.

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.

(Current)

Course Transfers

These are for current course guidelines only. For a full list of archived courses please see https://www.bctransferguide.ca

Institution Transfer details for NURS 3316
There are no applicable transfer credits for this course.

Course Offerings

Winter 2025

CRN Days Instructor Status
Maximum seats
32
Currently enrolled
28
Remaining seats:
4
On waitlist
0
Building
Coquitlam - Bldg. D
Room
D1025
Times:
Start Time
12:30
-
End Time
16:20
CRN Days Instructor Status
Maximum seats
32
Currently enrolled
29
Remaining seats:
3
On waitlist
0
Building
Coquitlam - Bldg. D
Room
D2023
Times:
Start Time
12:30
-
End Time
16:20