NSN009 Specialist Nursing Practice for Children and Families
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| Unit code: | NSN009 |
|---|---|
| Antirequisite(s): | NSN004, NSN005 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
| Availabilities |
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| CSP student contribution | $493 |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $2,592 |
| International unit fee | $3,780 |
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2021, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | NSN009 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Anti-requisite: | NSN004, NSN005 |
| Coordinator: | Debbie Long | da.long@qut.edu.au |
Overview
The focus of this unit is practical application of specialist knowledge and evidence in varied paediatric settings (acute paediatrics or community child health). It complements the work undertaken in NSN001 and prepares you to deliver person-centred nursing care to children and families. Through the examination of contemporary issues that impact upon caring for children and families, you will apply specialist assessment skills to guide your clinical reasoning and decision making in the health related concerns of children and families. NSN001 and NSN009 are the two specialist units required for the Paediatric, Child and Youth Health Major.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Demonstrate specialist knowledge and skills as applied to nursing children and families;
- Examine clinical scenarios and make evidence based recommendations for improvements to nursing care;
- Demonstrate the application of professional and age-appropriate communication skills in practice; and
- Engage effectively in collaborative interdisciplinary teamwork in child and family settings.
Content
Specialist level nursing care is embedded in developmental assessment and fostering therapeutic relationships with families using the underlying principles of age appropriate communication, family centred and atraumatic care in your approach to working with infants, children and families. You will explore collaborative management using a transdisciplinary approach and leadership principles to nursing care of infants, children and families using literature and evidence.
Content varies according to stream:
Acute stream: Modules are based on specialist nursing knowledge of a body systems framework and provide activities that link knowledge of pathophysiology to commonly seen conditions and issues in the acute care paediatric setting.
Community child health stream: Modules focus on specialist nursing care of children through the stages of childhood from infancy to adolescence. Activities will develop knowledge of pathophysiology, linking this to normal development and contrasting to commonly conditions and issues in the community child health setting.
There is a requirement for a minimum of 240 hours of work-integrated learning in this unit. If you are undertaking the community health stream you will need to undertake work-integrated learning in a community health setting, clinical practice can be arranged with the assistance of the Unit Coordinator. If you are undertaking an acute child and family health stream, you must be currently employed at least 0.5 FTE (full-time equivalent) in an acute paediatric setting. Work integrated learning placements cannot be arranged in the acute paediatric setting.
Learning Approaches
The unit is offered externally and adopts a blended learning approach including collaborative activities with peers and tutors and self-directed learning modules. A variety of teaching and learning approaches will be adopted to develop critical thinking and specialised skills in acute paediatric or child and youth health nursing practice. The unit encourages students to use enquiry based learning and utilise the principles of evidence based practice and critical thinking. Knowledge and skills will be further applied during Work Integrated Learning experiences in either the acute or community setting.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Assessments will be spaced throughout the semester to provide you with the opportunity for feedback on your learning at key points. Academic support through early formal, formative feedback to students is a priority and unit specific details about formative feedback will be confirmed through the unit blackboard site. Summative feedback will be provided on return of the criterion referenced assessment form for assignment work. Clinical assessment will provide the opportunity for both formative and summative. Summative feedback will be provided on the exam on release of the exam results.
Assessment
Overview
There are two summative assessments in this unit.
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: Case Study
The case study will enable you to apply theoretical knowledge to the care of a selected child and family. You are required to critically analyse care provided and make evidenced based recommendations for improvements in your clinical practice.
Assessment: Clinical Portfolio
Your clinical portfolio is a collection of evidence demonstrating specialist learning. It will integrate theory, practice and competency assessment based on the Australian College of Children and Young Person's Nursing Competency standards (2016).
A template will be provided to guide your progression throughout the semester. This is a substantial piece of work that will challenge the theoretical basis for nursing and multi-disciplinary care provided for paediatric patients, evidenced in an extensive range of literature.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
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.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Resource Materials
Prescribed 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. (Community stream only)
Hockenberry, M. J., Wilson, D. & Rodgers, C. (2019). Wong's nursing care of infants and children (11th ed.). St Louis: Elsevier.
Lawrence, R. & Lawrence, R. (2016). Breastfeeding. A guide for the medical profession. USA: Elsevier. (Community stream only)
Recommended text(s)
Barnes, M., & Rowe, J. (2013). Child, youth and family health: Strengthening communities (2nd ed.). Sydney: Elsevier. (Acute/community stream)
Risk Assessment Statement
Students undertaking this unit will be undertaking workplace-based clinical practice experience, or drawing on this experience. As such, you could be exposed to risks encountered in your nursing practice. Students undertaking work-integrated learning are required to follow the same health safety guidelines that apply to all staff in your workplace. In addition, measures to control exposure to risks include:
- orientation to the health care agency
- supervision by clinical lecturers
- appropriate theoretical and practical preparation.
Emergency Procedures
All facilities require that their health workers become familiar with local emergency procedures. It is your responsibility to locate fire exits, emergency procedures and complete CPR drill and fire safety as required.
Health Status and Immunisation Requirements
It is strongly recommended that students will:
- endeavour at all times to maintain their personal health at a high level
- are fit to work and have had a reasonable rest period between shifts
- review their current immunisation status and Q Health mandates for immunisation, and
- inform the Unit Coordinator, Strand Coordinator or Clinical Lecturer if they are aware of any personal condition which may present a risk to themselves or patients, other students, health care agency staff or the general public while on clinical placement.
The management of your health facility has the right to send you home if, in their opinion, it is unsafe for you to work that day.
Confidentiality
As a student in the clinical area, you must treat all information regarding patients, their families and healthcare facilities with the utmost confidentiality. Information that is documented as part of your learning experiences must preserve patient, healthcare clinicians and healthcare facilities anonymity and confidentiality. Classroom and online discussion should also adhere to these principles.
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2021, Kelvin Grove, External
| Unit code: | NSN009 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Anti-requisite: | NSN004, NSN005 |
| Coordinator: | Debbie Long | da.long@qut.edu.au |
Overview
The focus of this unit is practical application of specialist knowledge and evidence in varied paediatric settings (acute paediatrics or community child health). It complements the work undertaken in NSN001 and prepares you to deliver person-centred nursing care to children and families. Through the examination of contemporary issues that impact upon caring for children and families, you will apply specialist assessment skills to guide your clinical reasoning and decision making in the health related concerns of children and families. NSN001 and NSN009 are the two specialist units required for the Paediatric, Child and Youth Health Major.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Demonstrate specialist knowledge and skills as applied to nursing children and families;
- Examine clinical scenarios and make evidence based recommendations for improvements to nursing care;
- Demonstrate the application of professional and age-appropriate communication skills in practice; and
- Engage effectively in collaborative interdisciplinary teamwork in child and family settings.
Content
Specialist level nursing care is embedded in developmental assessment and fostering therapeutic relationships with families using the underlying principles of age appropriate communication, family centred and atraumatic care in your approach to working with infants, children and families. You will explore collaborative management using a transdisciplinary approach and leadership principles to nursing care of infants, children and families using literature and evidence.
Content varies according to stream:
Acute stream: Modules are based on specialist nursing knowledge of a body systems framework and provide activities that link knowledge of pathophysiology to commonly seen conditions and issues in the acute care paediatric setting.
Community child health stream: Modules focus on specialist nursing care of children through the stages of childhood from infancy to adolescence. Activities will develop knowledge of pathophysiology, linking this to normal development and contrasting to commonly conditions and issues in the community child health setting.
There is a requirement for a minimum of 240 hours of work-integrated learning in this unit. If you are undertaking the community health stream you will need to undertake work-integrated learning in a community health setting, clinical practice can be arranged with the assistance of the Unit Coordinator. If you are undertaking an acute child and family health stream, you must be currently employed at least 0.5 FTE (full-time equivalent) in an acute paediatric setting. Work integrated learning placements cannot be arranged in the acute paediatric setting.
Learning Approaches
The unit is offered externally and adopts a blended learning approach including collaborative activities with peers and tutors and self-directed learning modules. A variety of teaching and learning approaches will be adopted to develop critical thinking and specialised skills in acute paediatric or child and youth health nursing practice. The unit encourages students to use enquiry based learning and utilise the principles of evidence based practice and critical thinking. Knowledge and skills will be further applied during Work Integrated Learning experiences in either the acute or community setting.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Assessments will be spaced throughout the semester to provide you with the opportunity for feedback on your learning at key points. Academic support through early formal, formative feedback to students is a priority and unit specific details about formative feedback will be confirmed through the unit blackboard site. Summative feedback will be provided on return of the criterion referenced assessment form for assignment work. Clinical assessment will provide the opportunity for both formative and summative. Summative feedback will be provided on the exam on release of the exam results.
Assessment
Overview
There are two summative assessments in this unit.
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: Case Study
The case study will enable you to apply theoretical knowledge to the care of a selected child and family. You are required to critically analyse care provided and make evidenced based recommendations for improvements in your clinical practice.
Assessment: Clinical Portfolio
Your clinical portfolio is a collection of evidence demonstrating specialist learning. It will integrate theory, practice and competency assessment based on the Australian College of Children and Young Person's Nursing Competency standards (2016).
A template will be provided to guide your progression throughout the semester. This is a substantial piece of work that will challenge the theoretical basis for nursing and multi-disciplinary care provided for paediatric patients, evidenced in an extensive range of literature.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
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.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Resource Materials
Prescribed 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. (Community stream only)
Hockenberry, M. J., Wilson, D. & Rodgers, C. (2019). Wong's nursing care of infants and children (11th ed.). St Louis: Elsevier.
Lawrence, R. & Lawrence, R. (2016). Breastfeeding. A guide for the medical profession. USA: Elsevier. (Community stream only)
Recommended text(s)
Barnes, M., & Rowe, J. (2013). Child, youth and family health: Strengthening communities (2nd ed.). Sydney: Elsevier. (Acute/community stream)
Risk Assessment Statement
Students undertaking this unit will be undertaking workplace-based clinical practice experience, or drawing on this experience. As such, you could be exposed to risks encountered in your nursing practice. Students undertaking work-integrated learning are required to follow the same health safety guidelines that apply to all staff in your workplace. In addition, measures to control exposure to risks include:
- orientation to the health care agency
- supervision by clinical lecturers
- appropriate theoretical and practical preparation.
Emergency Procedures
All facilities require that their health workers become familiar with local emergency procedures. It is your responsibility to locate fire exits, emergency procedures and complete CPR drill and fire safety as required.
Health Status and Immunisation Requirements
It is strongly recommended that students will:
- endeavour at all times to maintain their personal health at a high level
- are fit to work and have had a reasonable rest period between shifts
- review their current immunisation status and Q Health mandates for immunisation, and
- inform the Unit Coordinator, Strand Coordinator or Clinical Lecturer if they are aware of any personal condition which may present a risk to themselves or patients, other students, health care agency staff or the general public while on clinical placement.
The management of your health facility has the right to send you home if, in their opinion, it is unsafe for you to work that day.
Confidentiality
As a student in the clinical area, you must treat all information regarding patients, their families and healthcare facilities with the utmost confidentiality. Information that is documented as part of your learning experiences must preserve patient, healthcare clinicians and healthcare facilities anonymity and confidentiality. Classroom and online discussion should also adhere to these principles.