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School:
School of Human and Health Sciences
Credit Rating:
15
Level (including FHEQ):
M (FHEQ Level 7)
Graded or Non Graded:
Graded
Version Valid From:
2021-01-01
Module Leader:
Beth Charlesworth
Version Number
2024.02
Learning Methods
Guided Independent Study
Practical Classes and Demonstrations
Lecture
Seminar
Professional Body Requirements
Nursing and Midwifery Council
Synopsis
This module builds on knowledge and skills you developed in stage one. You will expand your range of assessment skills and apply them to more complex neonate, child and young person care encounters. Using your knowledge, you will recognise deterioration and begin to identify appropriate interventions to meet the care … For more content click the Read More button below.
Learning Strategy
Lectures and practical classes and demonstrations (simulation) will be supported by an approach whereby students complete online and face to face learning activities, directed reading exercises and a variety of VLE activities. Within this, a transformative learning approach will enable students to reflect on their knowledge and skills and apply … For more content click the Read More button below.
Outline Syllabus
Being an accountable professional
• Effective child and family centred communication with neonates, children and their families and within teams • Promoting cultural diversity in healthcare provision • Law and policy in relation to health and social care • Procedural skills; undertaking and interpreting the following skills; vital signs and … For more content click the Read More button below.
• Optimising opportunities for health promotion and health protection • Promoting self-care and family involvement in care, including motivation and capacity for health behaviour change Assessing needs and planning care and providing and evaluating care
• Pathophysiology and associated presentation of signs and symptoms • Recognition and management of complex behavioural and physical health changes in children and people across the lifespan and across the range of settings • Systematic and whole system assessment • Therapeutic interventions • Less common child conditions • Managing cognitive distress • Identifying and managing common mental health related symptoms • Evaluating care interventions and adjusting accordingly • Recognising vulnerable groups • Enabling people to live inclusive and fulfilling lives • Dementia care • Consent related to capacity and complex care situations • Providing effective, evidence-based care • Identifying and managing safeguarding situations • Breaking bad news • Care of people with life limiting conditions • End of life care and care of bereaved relatives • Psychological diagnosis and presentation • Pharmacology and legal aspects of medicines management and administration. Introduction to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society competency framework. Medicines optimisation. Medicines calculations • Recognising drug errors and adverse reactions in direct patient care Leading and managing nursing care and working in teams
• Using digital technology to support care delivery/telemedicine • Working with other professionals to optimise care management • Identifying and managing priorities of care for individuals and groups of people Improving safety and quality of care
• Identifying and managing potential safety issues in direct neonate, child and family care • Communicating risk related to direct neonate and child nursing care Co-ordinating care
• Communicating care needs of individuals and groups across care settings • Care delivery to groups of children and their families in a variety of settings • Safe transfer or discharge within and across services • Managing children with complex care needs and co-morbidities.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module students will
1.
Critically understand developmental and disease processes and apply to the ways in which this manifests in children and young people.
2.
Systematically and critically evaluate the safety and effectiveness of care when planning and implementing care for child nursing.
3.
Systematically and safely respond to an alteration in the condition of a child/young person.
4.
Critically and comprehensively apply underlying principles to the safe administration of medicines to people in child and young people care areas.
Formative Assessment
Assessment 1: Written plan
Assessment 2: Other
Summative Assessment
Assessment 1: Presentation
Assessment 2: In-Class Test
Assessment Criteria
The School generic grading criteria and the learning outcomes will apply.
The expectation is that text-based assessment tasks will be submitted via Turnitin®.
Identities of individuals and organisations should be anonymised and confidences respected. Consent should be obtained from individual service users for use of any of their personal health … For more content click the Read More button below.