Module overview
In this module you will build on your previous learning so that you can prioritise and respond to the changing levels of support that people require when their health status changes. You will develop your ability to manage and evaluate care across healthcare settings to promote, restore and stabilise health status
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Learning Outcomes
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Justify nursing responses to acute changes in health status using evidence based interventions
- Identify, prioritise and respond to risk factors that may lead to deterioration in health status
- Explain how clinical judgement and decision making skills are important aspects of managing nursing care
- Discuss the knowledge and skills necessary to undertake a prioritised assessment of people who are experiencing an acute change in health status
Syllabus
Content for ALL Fields:
Clinical judgement & decision making
Responding to mental and emotional distress including agitation, aggression and challenging behaviour
Responding to self-harm and or suicidal ideation
Recognising and responding to acute deterioration in physical health status (e.g. sepsis)
Breaking significant news
Sudden and / or traumatic death
Ethical and legal issues in acute care: DNACPR, DOLS
Managing risks to vulnerable groups with acute health care needs (e.g. Learning Disability)
Human Factors: Safety culture, Debriefing
Medicines Management: Safe medicine use. (e.g. drug interactions / reactions including anaphylaxis; recreational drugs; using technology to improve medicines safety; forms of prescribing including PGD)
CHILD Field Specific Content:
Managing neonatal complex and acute care
Managing childrens' pre, peri & post operative care
Child and adolescent mental health service provision
Children and young people living with eating disorders
Self harm in children and young people
Managing children’s pain
Management of respiratory collapse in childhood
Management of sepsis and related infection and infectious diseases in childhood
Acute assessment and management: Diabetic ketoacidosis in children
Children’s fluid management
Acute care settings: managing sudden death
Promote, restore and stabilise health status in children
Pharmacology of commonly encountered drugs
SKILLS to include:
Responding to physiological deterioration
Airway management and supporting the at risk patient
BLS yr 2 update
NG insertion
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
The module is taught using a variety of learning and teaching approaches which may include:
Lectures
Seminars
Directed study activities
Self-directed Study
Technology enhanced learning
| Type | Hours |
|---|---|
| Seminar | 6 |
| Teaching | 24 |
| Practical classes and workshops | 14 |
| Clinical Practice | 40 |
| Preparation for scheduled sessions | 10 |
| Independent Study | 93.5 |
| Total study time | 187.5 |
Resources & Reading list
General Resources
Spotting the sick child an educational tool for health care practitioners, to aid in recognition of serious illness in children. Dr Davies F sponsored by Department of Health (2004)CD visual format
Internet Resources
A textbook of children and young peoples nursing 3rd edition 2020 Glasper, Richardson, Randall.
Textbooks
Glasper EA, and Richardson J (2010). Textbook of children’s and young people’s nursing. Edinburgh: Elsevier.
Macqueen S Bruce EA and Gibson F (2012). The Great Ormond Street Hospital manual of children’s nursing practices. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
Gormley-Fleming, Elizabeth (2018). fundamentals of childrens applied pathophysiology.
Thompson M, Hooper C, Laver-Bradbury C & Gale C (2012). Child and Adolescent Mental Health: Theory and Practice. Boca Raton: Hodder Arnold Taylor & Francis Group.
Gormley Fleming E and Peate I (2019). Fundamentals of Children's applied Anatomy and Physiology: an essential guide for Nursing and Healthcare Students. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons.
Ian Peate and Elizabeth Gormley-Fleming. Fundamentals of Children's Anatomy and Physiology : A Textbook for Nursing and Healthcare Students.
Barber P (2012). Further essentials of pharmacology for nurses. Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill/Open University Press.
Assessment
Assessment strategy
The assessment will test your ability to assess a person's care needs, relate signs and symptoms, identify risk of deterioration and articulate a plan of care.
Formative
This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.
Seminar
- Assessment Type: Formative
- Feedback: Peer & seminar lead feedback.
- Final Assessment: No
- Group Work: Yes
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Exam | 100% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Exam | 100% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: External