Course
Discontinued
No
Course code
NURS 3316
Descriptive
Relational Practice: Engaging with Families
Department
Nursing
Faculty
Health Sciences
Credits
3.00
Start date
End term
Not Specified
PLAR
No
Semester length
15 weeks
Max class size
36
Course designation
None
Industry designation
None
Contact hours
Lecture: 4 hours/week
Method(s) of instruction
Lecture
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.
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 outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Explain issues and trends relevant to family nursing and the relevance to nursing practice with families;
- Describe how historical, social, economic, political, cultural, and other personal and contextual factors shape families’ experiences of health and healthcare;
- Critically examine barriers or challenges to enacting relational nursing practice with families;
- Integrate family theories to inform the provision of safe, ethical, competent, compassionate, and evidence-informed nursing care with families;
- Apply knowledge, attitudes, skills, and abilities that facilitate the development of nurse-family partnerships to promote health and prevent illness or injury;
- Reflect on integrating relational practice when caring for clients and families.
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.
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.
Prerequisites