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Introduction to the Instructor’s Guide
Author: Deborah Padgett Coehlo, PhD, RN
Contributors: Diane Bauer, MS, RN; Kari Firestone, RN, MSN; Kathleen Bell, RN, MSN, CNM,
AHN-BC; Jane Palmieri, MSN, RN
This instructor’s guide is designed to provide strategies for teaching family nursing to
undergraduate and graduate nursing students, and to already practicing professional nurses who
are learning to be more family focused in their nursing care. The editors of this textbook and
instructor’s guide believe that the best nurses are those who expand their scientific knowledge
through creative and reflective thought, behavior, and experiences using evidence-based
practices. The authors of the Family Health Care Nursing: Theory, Practice and Research, fifth
edition, Instructor’s Guide utilize the University of British Columbia (UBC) model of teaching
(Thorne, Chillings, Ellis, & Perry, 1992), which incorporates activities for understanding,
reflection, behavioral experiences, and growth throughout this manual. This UBC model,
originally designed for nursing care of individuals, has been adapted for the instructor’s guide to
be applied to families, recognizing the uniqueness of each individual family and the nursing role
in providing care during critical periods in the family life cycle. Family nurses’ many roles assist
families in strengthening their abilities, enhancing protective strategies, sustaining strengths, and
developing positive coping strategies through therapeutic communication and holistic care. By
helping nursing faculty teach and guide undergraduate and graduate nursing students, as well as
practicing professional nurses, to explore individual and family meanings attached to health
events, the fifth edition textbook and instructor’s guide can help shape ideas, develop trust, and
nurture therapeutic relationships between the health care system and families.
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