60 hours/semester
In this course, students engage in a variety of learning activities such as discussions, group work, case studies, reading assignments, and remote/virtual meetings.
- Family healthcare nursing
- Family demographic shifts within Canada
- Theoretical foundations of family nursing process
- Family nursing assessment models
- Family social policy and culturally sensitive nursing care of Canadian families
- Psychiatric nursing care of LGBTQ families including the unique needs of families with gender nonconforming family members
- Family mental health nursing care including both episodic and chronic mental health illness implications
- Family health in mid and later life
- Families with Palliative and end-of-life care needs
- Psychiatric nursing care of families with trauma
- Psychiatric nursing care of families experiencing substance use disorders
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
- Discuss family nursing care practices and family health promotion;
- Identify and describe family nursing care theoretical foundations and major models;
- Recognize and discuss changing family demographics within Canada and the impact on healthcare;
- Examine the impact of both provincial and national legislation and policy in providing nursing care to families;
- Identify, discuss, and implement careplanning using principles of family nursing assessment and interventions;
- Analyze the individual and holistic needs of diverse families across the health continuum and lifespan;
- Understand the impact of substance use disorders on family roles and family functioning.
The course evaluation is consistent with the Douglas College Evaluation Policy. An evaluation schedule is presented at the beginning of the course in the Instructor Course Outline. This is a graded course.
Textbooks and materials are to be purchased by students. A list of required and optional textbooks and materials is provided for students at the beginning of the semester.
Admission into:
LPN Access to Psychiatric Nursing Degree Program or
Psychiatric Nursing Degree Completion Program AND
PNUR 3700 and PNUR 4576 and PNUR 4585 (for students registered in LPN Access to Psychiatric Nursing Degree Program only)
Students in the LPN Access program are required to maintain a passing grade of 65% (C+) in all courses to progress in the program.
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