Family and Community Health Nursing SyllabusCourse Information: N233

Credit hours: 2 semester credits (2 hours per week class, additional 12 hours Service learning with debriefing.

Prerequisites: All freshman year nursing courses

Course Description

This course focuses on the care of family in the community setting by engaging in community health assessments, providing health education to individuals and their families in the community. The course also focuses on health disparities, identification of high risk individuals and families in the community, addressing social determinants of health, and enabling the student to plan and implement nursing actions to promote or maintain health of individuals and families. The course incorporates concepts and theories related to care of family and society.

Learning outcomes:

At the completion of this course the student will be able to:

Synthesize knowledge to provide competent evidenced based care and facilitate the health of individuals, families, and society (MNSU, SON Program outcome #1)

Integrate evidence, clinical reasoning, inter-professional perspectives, and health care preferences in planning, implementing, and evaluating outcomes to enhance the health of family and society through Service Learning projects.

Demonstrate knowledge of health care, political awareness, fiscal responsibility, professional regulations, and advocacy for social justice through evidence based practice and Service Learning projects.

Exemplify personal and professional accountability by modeling nursing values and standards. (MNSU, SON program outcome #8)

Promote, maintain, sustain, and regain the health of individuals, families, and society. (MNSU, SON Program outcome #10)

Teaching / Learning Strategies:

Teaching and learning strategies include assigned readings, small group discussions, lectures, watching videos, and eight hours of service learning experience in the community. The SL project will also include reflective practice by debriefing among group members following each clinical session.

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Instructor

Yisehak Tura

Phone

XXX-xxx-xxx

Email

@mnsu.edu

Office Location

[Building, Room]

Office Hours

M-W-F by appointment

Instructor

Yisehak Tura

Phone

XXX-xxx-xxx

Email

@mnsu.edu

Office Location

[Building, Room]

Office Hours

M-W-F by appointment

Instructor

Yisehak Tura

Phone

XXX-xxx-xxx

Email

@mnsu.edu

Office Location

[Building, Room]

Office Hours

M-W-F by appointment

Required Text (I will find a text book, I do not have one yet. For now I used a couple chapter from the Denham book. That is why I do not have the remainder of the weekly assignments done.)

Denham, S.A., Eggenberger, S.K., Young, P.K., Krumwiede, N.K. (2015). Family focused care. Philadelphia: F. A. Davis.

[Publication Name], [Author Name]

Family and Public Health Resources

Cashman, S., Hale, J., Candib, L., Nimiroski, T. A., & Brookings, D. (2004). Applying Service-Learning through a Community-Academic Partnership: Depression Screening at a Federally Funded Community Health Center. Education for Health: Change in Learning & Practice (Taylor & Francis Ltd), 17(3), 313-322. doi:10.1080/13576280400002486

Healthy People 2020: http://www.healthypeople.gov/

Minnesota Department of Health: Public Health Interventions

http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/opi/cd/phn/docs/0301wheel_manual.pdf

Teaching Essential Skills to Family Caregivers:

Nigolian, C. ]., & Miller, K. L. (2011). Teaching Essential Skills to Family Caregivers. American Journal of Nursing, 111(11), 52-58.http://journals.lww.com/ajnonline/Pages/videogallery.aspx?videoId=91&autoPlay=true

Course Schedule and Topics

Week Subject Assigned Reading before class

Week 1 Course Overview

Theoretical framework for family and Societal health care

Family and societal health assessment and nursing actions

Class (2 hrs.)

Denham, Eggenberger & Krumwiede chapter 12

Lecture

Group discussion

Week 2 Social determinants of health

Cultural Diversity and Health aspects

Class (2 hrs)

Denham et al, 2015, chapter 6 / Healthy People 2020

Week 3 Class (2 hrs) Quiz 1 (Week1-week2) Book chapters / Article

Week 4 What is Service Learning?

Teaching families

Class (2 hrs.)

Cashman et al., 2004

Nigolian & Miller 2011 (May watch the 30 min video)

Week 5 Service Learning (SL) (2 hrs.)

Peer debriefing 1 hour.

See Additional info on SL, article

Week 6 Class (2 hrs) Book chapters / Article

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Week 7 Service learning (2 hrs.)

Peer debriefing 1 hour

Article

Week 8 Class (2 hrs) Book chapters / Article

Week 9 Service learning (2 hrs.)

Peer debriefing 1 hour

Article

Week 10 Class (2 hrs) Quiz 3 on Week4- 8 Book chapters / Article

Week 11 Service learning (2 hrs.)

Peer debriefing 1 hour

Article

Week 12 Class (2 hrs) Book chapters / Article

Week 13 Class (Final exam)

Service Learning Project information.

Each student will be assigned to a service learning project. Each student will spend at least eight hours of community services starting the fifth week of the semester. Each student will work in groups of two or three to practice reflective debriefing following each service learning encounter session. Each group will meet for 1 hours for debriefing / reflective practice. Reflective journals are due on week eight and week 12 of the semester. In this project each student will identify a personal, family, social, environmental, and any other determinants of health on families and proposes a solution for the identified issue. Students will identify a family in need in their first SL encounter and will do family assessment, plan and implement family nursing actions to enhance the health of the family. Students will also engage in teaching and or appropriate resources for their identified family. Students are expected to integrate evidence based on best practice and personalized to the identified family. The SL reflection Journal not only include the student’s interaction and experience in the project but also in-depth assessment, analysis and interpretation of the family health experience and proposed nursing actions. Students must pass this SL project experience in order to get a passing grade in this course based on the criteria given above. Eight hours of SL clinical experience and debriefing as specified above is required to pass the course. If a student is not able to fulfil the required time due to personal or family issues, an equivalent learning activity can be arranged in consultation with the instructor.

Evaluation / Exam Schedule

Week Subject Possible points

Group discussions Participation 20

Quiz 1 Week 1-2 materials 20

Quiz 2 Weeks 4-8 30

Service Learning reflection Journal 1st Journal due week 8 Pass / Fail (See detailed description above)

Service Learning Reflection Journal 2nd Journal due week 12 Pass/ Fail (See detailed description above)

Final Exam Comprehensive exam 100

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Grading: A student must earn a minimum of “C” or 70 % or greater in order to pass the course from a total of 170 possible points. It is also required that students must pass the SL project.

A = 93-100%, (158-170 points)

A- = 89-92.9%, (151- 157 points)

B+ = 85-88.9% (144-150 points)

B = 80-84.9%, (136-143 points)

B- = 77-79.9% (130-135 points)

C+ = 74-76.9%, (125-129 points)

C = 70-73.9% (119- 124 points)

Students with disabilities:

Necessary accommodation will be made for students with disabilities. See the college’s disability services guidelines @.....or call…

Homework Policy

All assigned works are due on the due dates indicated in the evaluation section of this syllabus. If more time is needed to complete the assigned work please arrange times with the instructor first. Missed quiz / exam can be taken if the student communicated his / her absence in a reasonable time frame before the quiz. Reason for absence such as family emergency, medical or other personal reason is required.

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