NURS 2901 Families in Transition

Week 1 Objectives
Introduction/Family Centered Care

Through participation in lectures, class, case studies, cooperative learning, group work and
independent reading, students will have the opportunity to:

a) Define and discuss the concept of family and various family forms.
b) Describe family structure, function, and roles and ways that these are changing.
c) Examine current trends in the Canadian family.
d) Discuss how family members influence one another’s health.
e) Define and discuss the philosophy and key components of family centered care and how
it can be applied in maternal-child nursing.
f) Describe how maternal and child health nursing could be made more family centered.
g) Identify important trends in maternal and child health nursing.
h) 2
Describe common cultural practices in maternal- newborn health.
i) Describe the purpose of the Canadian Perinatal Surveillance System.

Required Readings

Jimenez, V., Klein, M .C., Hivon, M. & Mason, C. (2010). A mirage of change: Family-
centered maternity care in practice. Birth, 37(2), 160-167.
doi: 10.1111/j.1523536X.2010.00396.x.
Perry, S. E., Hockenberry, M. J., Lowdermilk, D. L., Wilson, D., Keenan-Lindsay, L. &
Sams, C. (2017). Maternal child nursing care in Canada (2nd ed.). Elsevier, Canada.
The Family in Cultural and Community Context pp.14-16
Collaborative Woman and Family-Centred Care, Perinatal Health Indicators: The
Canadian Perinatal Surveillance System, The Canadian Maternity Experiences
Survey pp. 48-53
Family-Centred Care pp. 831 Box 30-1

Summer 2019