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Scroll down to find the e pop and click and follow the directions. The web site below does not always work so when it does not work follow the directions above. Http://site. Barry. Com/lib/FUD/ Diocletian. Action? Dock=10389843 Course Description This asynchronous, online course is designed to facilitate family assessment and intervention for advanced practice. The theoretical frameworks that underpin this class are: family systems, change theory, cognition theory, and ethnicity and family theory.
The practicum component will consist of visits to a family in the community wherein the student will perform a standard assessment, develop a plan of interventions and outcome measurement based on evaluating the strengths and weaknesses in the family. Readings from text will be supplemented with articles. Individual Student Learning Outcomes At the completion of the course the student will be able to: 1. Perform a family assessment on a family in clinical using the Calgary model to articulate family nursing interventions in an outpatient clinical setting. 2.
Utilize therapeutic communication skills to collaborate with families and health care team members. 3. Use evidence-based research as rationales for family interventions. 4. Apply laterally sensitive nursing care to families based on current assigned course readings. 5. Apply nursing interventions based on assessment and current best practice models. 6. Compare and contrast the theoretical foundations for the nursing of families to determine the appropriate model to apply to the assigned clinical family. 7. Apply current theoretical concepts to family assessment and intervention. . Evaluate assessment tools and intervention strategies based on current research for high-risk families. 9. Examine ethical, moral and social issues in relation to family health and illness. 10. Evaluate the efficacy of the healthcare delivery system regarding family health/illness as it relates to assigned family. 11. Assess one’s own family to articulate areas of health/illness using valid and reliable assessment tools. 12. Analyze the role of the advanced practice nurse in managing the family health care. 13.
Provide collaborative care for families that encourage health promotion and disease prevention. 14. Provide education and advocacy to families by integrating services of the health care delivery system. Grading Criteria: Interview Project = ACE Report Culture/McCormick Project = 20% Family Assessment Project = 50% Attendance = Grade Total = Graded Assignments 100% Assignment 1: Fifteen Minute Interview: 10% of Final Grade: Choose a family with which you are familiar and complete a 15 minute family interview based on the salient points in Chapter 9 of your text book.
You may document this paper in paragraph form. A Safe Assign folder will be available for its submission. This assignment is due on September 22, 2014. Assignment 2: ACE Report: 10% of Final Grade: Go to http://www. Accessed. Org/ace_score This site discusses childhood issues such as abuse and neglect. As a part of a family, it is important to determine whether children have problems related to their home environments. This site provides tools to assist with the assessment of children and the childhood of adults.
Then go to the download section and select a relevant article and email it to me in Journal format. Also, at the same site, go to ACE Score and then to ACE score calculator English to get a copy of the ACE assessment which you will use with one person, it can be an (adult) individual from assignment 4, the Family Assessment project. Perform the assessment on yourself and the individual you have hoses and email it to the professor. A Safe Assign folder will be available for its submission. This assignment is due on October 20, 2014.
Assignment 3: McCormick/Culture Paper: 20% of the Final Grade: Using the McCormick book, choose an ethnicity or religion that is prominent in the United States. Doing a library search, focus on how this ethnicity or religion impacts the family unit in its practices such as diet, responses to health and illness, and relationships among its members. Be as thorough as the literature allows. You should have a minimum of 6 resources. Document this paper in PAP format. A Safe Assign folder will be available for its submission. This assignment is due Novo. 10, 2014.
Assignment 4:Family Assessment: 50% of the Final Grade: This clinical assignment focuses on the family system and all the subsystems that affect the family, how the family unit copes, and how the nurse can help the family maintain a state of equilibrium. In your text is an outline of the Calgary Model and how it helps in the interviewing and assessment of the family. Using this model as a guideline choose two families you know to help you complete this assignment; these should not be our own family. Be sure the families are well in that they are not dealing with a newly diagnosed chronic or acute illness.
Families with long-standing chronic illnesses, such as controlled hypertension or diabetes, are acceptable. Contact the families and explain the project you need to complete and if they are willing to participate. Set up a meeting time to speak with family members who would be most helpful with this project. Have questions prepared concerning all of the subsystems that affect families including ethnic backgrounds, working status of family members, education, etc. You will need to meet with the families more than once. Using the family assessment summary in your text, complete a family assessment for each family.
This assessment must include content on all of the subsystems discussed in class this semester as well as a sonogram, a list of family diagnoses including strengths and problems (stress) related to each diagnoses. Students will need to summarize their project by comparing and contrasting these families and how they cope with any problems that arise; are they able to maintain a state of equilibrium or are they having difficulty maintaining a functional system? What could be done to improve or help with coping of the identified problems?
Could some of the coping mechanisms of one family help another family if similar problems exist? Beyond the textbook, students should search for additional resources to help explain the subsystems of the families; for example their response to illness may be based on cultural background or religious beliefs. Find resources to support this and explain fully. Projects should have a minimum of 10 resources in addition to the course textbook. This project can be written in either chart format or narrative format tit appropriate headings to identify each required section.
A Safe Assign folder will be available for its submission. This project is due Deco. 1, 2014. Attendance: All students are expected to attend all classes. Please read the attendance policy in the FIDE Student Handbook. If you are ill and must miss class, please email the professor. Attendance is worth 10% of the final grade. Late Assignment Submission: Students are expected to submit assignments on time. If there is a problem contact the course professor.