NSN810 Contemporary Issues in Paediatric and Adolescent Nursing
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| Unit code: | NSN810 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| CSP student contribution | $555 |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $2,976 |
| International unit fee | $4,236 |
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2024, Online
| Unit code: | NSN810 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
Overview
This specialty unit enhances your clinical knowledge and skills in child, adolescent and family nursing practice. This contemporary issues unit will support you in the development of specialist paediatric and adolescent nursing skills. These will include communication, interdisciplinary partnerships, reflective practice and engagement with emerging learning technologies to assess and address actual and potential diverse health needs of children and families.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Demonstrate specialist knowledge related to the science of brain development to support positive lifelong health outcomes for children and families.
- Critically analyse complex issues impacting child and family nursing practice and propose effective solutions to address a gap identified in your clinical workplace.
- Apply specialist knowledge and evidence in paediatric and adolescent nursing that transforms practice.
- Engage varied communication modes to effectively articulate specialist nursing knowledge.
Content
Modules focus on specialist nursing care of infants, children and families and aim to develop specialist nursing knowledge in this field by examining the health priorities for children and young people. The content will focus on the family influence along with the neuroscience of brain development and how illness and adversity can impact child development and later health and wellbeing. Development of specialist nursing skills in communication strategies and interdisciplinary partnerships, reflective practice and engaging with emerging learning technologies to develop a report that addresses a practice gap of your choice that you have explored with your peers in your clinical workplace.
Learning Approaches
In this unit, you will learn through engaging in the following:
- Workshops (online) to support knowledge development and academic literacy skills
- Online self-directed learning
- Peer review/feedback
- Individual research and readings; and
- Collaborative activities.
In undertaking this unit you will be working in a clinical practice setting and drawing on this experience.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback in this unit is provided to you through the following:
- Formative feedback through student engagement in workshops and activities
- Comments and grading via rubrics on summative assessment
- Feedback from peers.
Assessment
Overview
The assessment for this unit is comprised of 3 summative items.
Contemporary issues relating to child development and the nursing role will be examined and a video developed to identify gaps in the workplace. A report will be developed in collaboration with clinical specialist staff where possible to address the identified gap. The aim of the report will be to recommend an evidence-based child and family care intervention in the acute paediatric or community child health setting.
This unit will use online web based text matching software that assists students to develop the academic skills required to correctly use and cite reference material as well as check citations to determine and avoid possible instances of plagiarism.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Quiz
The quiz will assess key concepts related to paediatric and adolescent health particularly focused on the science of brain development to support positive lifelong health outcomes for children and families.
Assessment: SWOT analysis with peer review
You will complete a SWOT analysis of your workplace in relation to what you have learned within the core brain story of child development. You will need to identify an area where an intervention from these learnings could be implemented. You will conduct and receive peer review of the SWOT analysis to support development of your final assessment.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Report
Building on the second assessment and reflecting on peer feedback, you will complete a professional report. This report will outline a business case that includes a sustainable strategy for the implementation of your identified intervention.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
In undertaking this unit, students must meet the inherent employment requirements.
Resources
Resource Materials
Prescribed text(s)
Barnes, M., & Rowe, J. (2013). Child, youth and family health: Strengthening communities (2nd ed.). Sydney: Elsevier.
Hockenberry, M. J., Wilson, D., & Rodgers, C. (2019). Wong's nursing care of infants and children (11th ed.). St Louis: Mosby Elsevier.
Recommended text(s)
Guzys, D., Brown, R., Halcomb, E. & Whitehead, D. (2017). An Introduction to community and primary health care (2nd ed.) Singapore: Cambridge University Press.
Shonkoff, J. & Phillips, D. (Eds).(2000). From Neurons to neighbourhoods: The science of early childhood development. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press.
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out of ordinary risks associated with undertaking this unit.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.NS32 Graduate Certificate in Nursing
- Demonstrate and apply advanced health care knowledge and skills in a specialist nursing area.
Relates to: Quiz , SWOT analysis with peer review , Report - Critically analyse, evaluate, and reflect on specialist nursing knowledge, evidence and practice to improve patient care and health outcomes.
Relates to: SWOT analysis with peer review , Report - Communicate complex evidence-based knowledge through education, professional communication, and a range of digital technologies.
Relates to: SWOT analysis with peer review
NS95 Master of Nursing
- Apply advanced knowledge and skills to manage and improve nursing practices across diverse and complex contexts to improve health outcomes and service provision.
Relates to: Quiz , SWOT analysis with peer review , Report - Critically analyse evidence to inform decision-making in advanced nursing and interprofessional care contexts.
Relates to: SWOT analysis with peer review , Report - Communicate complex evidence-based findings through professional dissemination using a range of digital technologies.
Relates to: SWOT analysis with peer review