2024

Family Nursing

Name: Family Nursing
Code: ENF14456L
3 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours
Scientific Area: Nursing

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Presentation

The UC allows the student to understand the health-disease process in a family context.

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

Goals:
Understand the health process - illness of the person in family context
Develop clinical competences of assessment/diagnosis, provision and evalution of nursing care to the family in different contexts
Develop functional communication skills
Develop self-learning skills

Competences:
Critically understands and analyzes the Family Nursing conceptualization of the current socio-cultural and nursing context
Discusses and analyzes aspects of Family Nursing transversality, in the discipline of Nursing
Knows and analyzes the evaluation concept of Family Nursing and how it operationalizes using specific instruments
Knows and analyzes the concept of Family Nursing intervention and how it operationalize using specific strategies
Uses the principles of functional communication with problem solving skills in nursing
Reveals self-learning skills throughout the lifecycle

Contents

Different family theoretical approaches
Family settings in today's society
Family evolution over life cycle
The influence of family functioning on the health-disease process
The socio-cultural, political, ethnic, spiritual and religious influences in the family health
The promotion of family health
Family nursing assessment concept
Instruments used in Family Nursing assessment
The family nursing assessment, identification of the focus of attention and preparation of nursing diagnoses based on the CIPE
Family Nursing intervention concept and specific strategies
The contribution of evaluation of nursing to the family in definition of objectives and nursing actions in the promotion of health and prevention of disease, considering community resources
The contribution of family intervention in the development of nursing actions appropriate to the nursing diagnosis previously established

Teaching Methods

In the teaching of the planned program strategies will be selected to stimulate the acquisition of knowledge and competences by students, co-responsible for the teaching-learning process, based on research, ethical, reflection, critical inquiry and continuous analysis, properly guided and framed in teaching sessions and tutorials.

The evaluation of the CU will have a moment of individual formal assessment, through a written test, and a group work to operationalize the family assessment model (75%+25%). Students are subject to Assessment Regime provided in Internal School Regulation of UÉ. Assessment regimes and the proposed timing of classroom tests, either continuous assessment or final assessment, will be agreed with the students in the first class, taking into account the academic calendar.