Overview
In Nursing 436: Family Health Promotion students build on the concepts of health promotion and apply them to family health promotion nursing practice. In this course, you reflect on the lens you bring to practice while considering the principles of building professional relationships with clients. Family nursing is explored using the Calgary family assessment model (CFAM) and the Calgary family intervention model (CFIM). You then work through theory and practice approaches to family interviews. The course weaves in considerations of Indigenous ways of knowing, understanding world views, and adopting a trauma-informed lens to caring with families. This course is designed for you to strengthen your knowledge, skills, and attitudes while practicing across settings and the lifespan with families using family nursing theory.
Learning outcomes
On completion of this course the student will be able to:
- Explain the role of family from experiential, theoretical, and statistical perspectives, focusing on how family has been defined.
- Explore and examine your own beliefs about family and how they are influenced by your historical, cultural, and sociopolitical context.
- Analyze the relationships between family and health.
- Discuss a collaborative, strength-based, relational approach to family health promotion.
- Demonstrate a family assessment and plan for a family intervention.
- Apply family nursing theory to a variety of healthcare settings and roles.
Evaluation
To receive credit for NURS 436: Family Health Promotion, students must complete all the required assignments and achieve an overal compsite grade of C (64 percent). All submitted assignments must follow the current edition of th APA Publication Manual.
The assignments and weighting of the composite grade is as follows:
| Activity | Weight |
| Assignment 1: Definition of Family | 25% |
| Assignment 2: Family Assessment and Intervention | 35% |
| Assignment 3: Application of Family Nursing to a Case Study | 25% |
| Assignment 4: Family Nursing Reflection | 15% |
| Total | 100% |
Materials
Digital course materials
Links to the following course materials will be made available in the course:
Shajani, Z., & Snell, D. (2023). Wright & Leahey's nurses and families: A guide to family assessment and intervention (8th ed.). F. A. Davis
There are several readings and videos included throughout the course. Clicking on the link of the resource allows you to access it directly via the Athabasca University online library or the internet. Each unit has a reference list that contains all required and supplemental resources.