Course Title: Family and Community Studies

Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Family and Community Studies

Credit Points: 12.00

Terms

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
NURS1170	Bundoora Campus	Postgraduate	150H Health Sciences	Distance / Correspondence	Sem 1 2014
NURS1170	Bundoora Campus	Postgraduate	150H Health Sciences	Distance / Correspondence or Face-to-Face	Sem 1 2015
NURS1170	Bundoora Campus	Postgraduate	150H Health Sciences	Face-to-Face	Sem 1 2006, Sem 1 2007, Sem 1 2008, Sem 1 2009, Sem 1 2010, Sem 1 2011, Sem 1 2012, Sem 1 2013, Sem 1 2016
NURS1170	Bundoora Campus	Postgraduate	173H School of Health and Biomed	Face-to-Face	Sem 1 2018

Flexible Terms

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
NURS1170	Bundoora Campus	Postgraduate	173H School of Health and Biomed	Face-to-Face	PGRDFx2019 (ZZZZ)
NURS1170	Bundoora Campus	Postgraduate	173H School of Health and Biomed	Face-to-Face	PGRDFx2020 (ZZZZ)
NURS1170	Bundoora Campus	Postgraduate	173H School of Health and Biomed	Face-to-Face	PGRDFlex21 (ZZZZ)
NURS1170	Bundoora Campus	Postgraduate	173H School of Health and Biomed	Face-to-Face	PGRDFlex22 (ZZZZ)

Course Coordinator: Kerrie Buchanan

Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 7786

Course Coordinator Email: kerrie.buchanan@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Location: 201.07.015

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

None

Course Description

The Family and Community Studies course will enable you to investigate the socio ecological model of health and illustrate how this model can be applied to support families. The course examines concepts of contemporary families and their diversity of structure, function, strength and resilience. Content will include the experience of Indigenous and other culturally diverse families. Parenting tasks and life span challenges will be critically appraised in terms of transition to parenting and key developmental stages with a particular focus on vulnerability and the experience of vulnerable families. Ways in which health and community workers can work with families and communities in a partnership model at both a family and community level will also be addressed. Challenges such as family violence, cultural diversity, mental health issues and substance misuse will be critically appraised and considered.

Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

This course contributes to the development of the Program Learning Outcomes for GD159 Graduate Diploma in Child and Family Health Nursing in the following way:

• PLO 1:  Critically examine the principles of primary health care to plan, implement and evaluate health promotion activities within child, family and community health practice.
• PLO 3:  Critically evaluate contemporary research findings and integrate these to provide comprehensive, safe and effective evidence based health care for children, families and the community
• PLO 6:  Communicate effectively with children, families and groups to engage and support clients, working in partnership with families and interdisciplinary health teams to promote, assess and support maternal, child and family health and wellbeing.

 

On successful completion of this course, you should be able to:

1. Conceptually map the socio-ecological model of health and apply principles of primary health care and health promotion and consider how these apply to families and communities.
2. Explore and critique evidence and current models of practice and family assessment as they apply to contemporary families and raising children in Australian society.
3. Analyse and synthesise knowledge of parenting tasks and life span challenges as they relate to the transition to parenting, key developmental stages and early parenting concerns.
4. Investigate and apply knowledge and skills related to groupwork with families with young children and implement in a community child and family setting.
5. Demonstrate comprehensive knowledge of risk and protective factors that impact children, parents and families and the ability to integrate assessment findings concerning risk.
6. Assess contemporary issues that impact families such as cultural diversity, LGBTQI+ families, grief and loss, role of fathers, Indigenous health, psychosocial screening, perinatal mental health, family violence, child abuse, substance misuse and disability.

Overview of Learning Activities

 

You will be actively engaged in a range of learning activities such as lectorials, tutorials, practicals, laboratories, seminars, project work, class discussion, individual and group activities. Delivery may be face to face, online or a mix of both. 

You are encouraged to be proactive and self-directed in your learning, asking questions of your lecturer and/or peers and seeking out information as required, especially from the numerous sources available through the RMIT library, and through links and material specific to this course that is available through myRMIT Studies Course. 

Overview of Learning Resources

 

RMIT will provide you with resources and tools for learning in this course through myRMIT Studies Course. 

There are services available to support your learning through the University Library. The Library provides guides on academic referencing and subject specialist help as well as a range of study support services. For further information, please visit the Library page on the RMIT University website and the myRMIT student portal.

Overview of Assessment

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task 1: Micro Credentials: Academic Integrity, Womin Djeka, and Cultural Similarities and Differences
Weighting 15% (5% each)
This assessment task supports CLOs 1, 2, 5 & 6

Assessment Task 2: Clinical Skills Assessment
Weighting 35%
This assessment task supports CLOs 3, 5 & 6

Assessment Task 3: Contemporary Issues Essay
Weighting 50%
This assessment task supports CLOs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6

If you have a long-term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or Equitable Learning Services if you would like to find out more.