NUR5702 · Paediatric nursing 2

Overview

Paediatric nursing requires specialised skills and understanding of advanced paediatric pathophysiology, systematic assessment, management, and care. This unit provides you with the opportunity to apply advanced paediatric nursing principles and practice to the care of children with complex conditions. You will develop knowledge and skills to assess and care for the seriously ill and/or deteriorating child or young person. The importance of health promotion and illness prevention to provide safe and quality care, in collaboration with parents/caregivers will be explored. The concepts associated with transition to adult or community-based services, palliative and end-of-life care will also be discussed. Your study will include elements of clinical leadership including the role of the advanced practice nurse in optimising quality outcomes and in applying relevant ethical, legal and socio-cultural principles influencing patient and family centred care for children and young people.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment in this unit includes hurdle assessment task/s. Failure of any hurdle assessment tasks may result in failure of the unit.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. Apply the principles of systematic patient assessment based on an advanced knowledge of paediatric anatomy and physiology.
2. Implement advanced nursing practice principles required to manage children and young people with complex disease states.
3. Discuss and apply advanced practice nursing knowledge and skills to prioritise assessment and care of the seriously ill or deteriorating patient.
4. Evaluate the effectiveness of health promotion and illness prevention strategies for common paediatric presentations
5. Implement effective quality transitions in care across care settings for children, young people and their families.
6. Discuss the concepts underpinning end of life care and palliative care for children and families.
7. Apply the skills and knowledge required to effectively and collaboratively undertake interdisciplinary team-based care across a variety of settings.
8. Implement strategies to enhance leadership skills and apply these in everyday practice
9. Evaluate the impact of clinical leadership strategies in paediatric nursing contexts.
10. Analyse the ethical, legal and socio-cultural issues related to the advanced nursing management of the paediatric patient.
11. Implement and evaluate the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standard in paediatric nursing contexts

Workload

24 hours per week of teacher facilitated and self-directed learning including tutorials and online activities. Please refer to Moodle for tutorial types and requirements.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.