ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSING THEORY: FAMILY PROCESS & CHILD DEVELOPMENT

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the nature of a family-centered, culturally responsive approach to health care. Audience: Graduate 2. Identify changing trends in family structure, parenting practices, and health-illness patterns as well as their implications for practice and research. Audience: Graduate 3. Gain insights about family dynamics, the bidirectional influence of relationshipswithin families, and the impact of developmental transitions, culture and illness on these relationships. Audience: Graduate 4. Analyze and apply family theories to practice and inform interventions that enhance the quality of parent-child relationships. Audience: Graduate 5. Analyze theories of child development and related research, and the relevance ofthese to providing developmental guidance in the advanced practice of nursing with children/parents. Audience: Graduate 6. Describe the contribution of individual differences, such as temperament and coping style, to family interactions and functioning. Audience: Graduate 7. Evaluate specific child development and family research studies. Audience: Graduate 8. Formulate a framework for child and family assessment for a specific family or population of families managing a normative or situational transition or a health/illness situation. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the nature of a family-centered, culturally responsive approach to health care. Audience: Graduate 2. Identify changing trends in family structure, parenting practices, and health-illness patterns as well as their implications for practice and research. Audience: Graduate 3. Gain insights about family dynamics, the bidirectional influence of relationshipswithin families, and the impact of developmental transitions, culture and illness on these relationships. Audience: Graduate 4. Analyze and apply family theories to practice and inform interventions that enhance the quality of parent-child relationships. Audience: Graduate 5. Analyze theories of child development and related research, and the relevance ofthese to providing developmental guidance in the advanced practice of nursing with children/parents. Audience: Graduate 6. Describe the contribution of individual differences, such as temperament and coping style, to family interactions and functioning. Audience: Graduate 7. Evaluate specific child development and family research studies. Audience: Graduate 8. Formulate a framework for child and family assessment for a specific family or population of families managing a normative or situational transition or a health/illness situation. Audience: Graduate