Collaboration with Families

Course code NURS 2261

Credit 2.0

Length 30.0 hours

Course outline View

This course builds on concepts developed in relational practice from previous collaboration courses. Using multiple ways of knowing, students will explore healing and health promotion with families. Students will explore trends and issues and develop conceptual and experiential knowledge regarding relational techniques/processes that foster health-promoting relationships with families.

Prerequisites

NURS 2160, NURS 2161, NURS 2162, NURS 2163, NURS 2164, NURS 2370.

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What you will learn

  • Contextual trends in families and family nursing
    Models of family nursing
    Processes and skills of relational practice with families
    Challenges in family nursing: Responding relationally
    Legal practice in family nursing
    Theoretical perspectives and lenses for viewing family relationally
    Relational Inquiry and ethics

How to register

This course is offered as part of a VCC program only.

Course schedules

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CRN# Duration Delivery Location
42386 January 8, 2026
to April 9, 2026
Lecture VCC Broadway Building B See full schedule

Online courses listed without scheduled meeting times can be completed on your own schedule.

CRN# Duration Delivery Location
40374 January 7, 2027
to March 18, 2027
Lecture VCC Broadway Building B See full schedule

Online courses listed without scheduled meeting times can be completed on your own schedule.

Contact us

If you have any question, please email at advising@vcc.ca.

† This information is intended as a guideline only. Program and course details are subject to change with the approval of VCC's Board of Governors.

Indigenous Territory Acknowledgment

VCC is located on the traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples, and we acknowledge our privilege to be here.