Nursing (NURS) 436

Overview

Nursing 436: Family Health Promotion addresses the concepts of health promotion and primary health care in relation to family. Students are introduced to the assessment of family health using the Friedman Family Health Assessment Guide as well as the exploratory, collaborative approach outlined in the Developmental Model of Health and Nursing, commonly known as the McGill Model in nursing practice. In consultation with their course professor, students select a family within the community and use the McGill Model to guide a family health assessment and subsequently plan a family health promotion initiative.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of NURS 436, the student will achieve or exceed the following learning outcomes:

• Explain the meaning of family from experiential, theoretical, and statistical perspectives in how family has been and is defined;
• Discuss the meaning of 'family as client' in nursing practice;
• Explain the historical and current relationship between health promotion and family nursing practice;
• Use the Friedman Family Assessment Model to identify the priority nursing diagnoses in a hypothetical family situation;
• Use the Developmental Model of Health and Nursing (the McGill Model) as a guide to conducting a family health promotion assessment and developing a subsequent health promotion initiative with that family living within the community;
• Discuss the similarities and differences of family nursing practice guided by the Friedman and McGill approaches to health promotion;
• Describe strengths and areas of concern that can influence a family's ability to attain desired health potential(s) in relation to their developmental stage, transitions, challenges and/or cultural realities; and
• Discuss the challenges of family health promotion nursing practice within current health care realities.

Course Structure

• Unit 1: Significance of Family
• Unit 2: Nursing the Family as the Unit of Care
• Unit 3: Health Promotion and Family Nursing Practice
• Unit 4: Family Health Assessment Processes
• Unit 5: Planning and Working for Family Health
• Unit 6: Evaluating the Outcomes, Realities, and Possibilities of Family Health Promotion

Evaluation

To receive credit for NURS 436, you must complete and submit all of the required assignments and achieve an overall grade of at least “C-” (60%). Effective January 1, 2010, all papers submitted must follow the guidelines of the APA Publication Manual (6^th ed.) (2010).

The assignments and weighting of the composite grade is as follows:

To learn more about assignments and examinations, please refer to Athabasca University's online Calendar.