What will I learn on this module?
You will gain a thorough understanding of the complexities of nursing children and young people. This module addresses the care needs of children and young people with additional needs, including those living with acute, long-term or life limiting illness. Undertaking this module will encourage you to explore the variety of roles performed by the children’s nurse in different settings and think critically about the knowledge needed to fulfil these roles. You will also examine complexities of multi-disciplinary team working within health and social care systems.
You will explore some of the more difficult concepts such as withdrawal of care and the process of dying from a child and young person’s perspective as well as supporting the family. You will explore the role of the nurse in discharge planning and transition, which will provide you with knowledge and skills to support children and young people through this process. The module is delivered through many lenses and involves the views of public and people who use health and care services.
The module requires you to demonstrate your growing skills in academic research, through the appraisal of contemporary literature relating to children and young people with complex care needs. The module explores the philosophical assumptions underpinning contemporary healthcare literature to select appropriate research findings to apply to current children’s nursing practice.
How will I learn on this module?
Throughout this module, you will be engaged in a variety of learning and teaching approaches. You will learn from experts from practice, Web-based resources through Blackboard Ultra, and face-to-face in-class sessions through the ‘flipped classroom’ approach (Bergman & Sams, 2012). This approach enables you to engage with technology-enhanced learning, with the provision of links to web-based resources and other useful materials and a combination of online lectures and interactive e-learning packages. Flipping the classroom enables you to engage in both directed and self-directed study outside of formal teaching sessions as preparatory work for facilitated seminars. Engagement with this activity is essential for your active participation in the facilitated sessions.
Sessions will include individual work, group discussion and debate, where you will be encouraged to consider competing perspectives, share opinions and experiences, and develop a greater understanding of holistically caring for people. The use of peer support is a vital component of developing critical discussion and generating ideas and will be utilised during this module.
How will I be supported academically on this module?
You will also support each other via peer support, through engaging in discussion and debate to enhance your learning. You will also be able to contact the module team in person, via telephone, email and through Blackboard Ultra. Further support for your learning is provided with a 24-hour IT Helpline and the student support and wellbeing service at Northumbria are excellent points of contact for assistance for queries regarding disability, faith, counselling, mental health support, finance and welfare issues. You can access these services via email on your student portal, by telephone or through the help desk staff based within university libraries.
Skills Plus, the University Library’s collection of online learning materials can be used to support the development of your academic skills both on and off site Additional relevant materials will be available via BlackBoard Ultra. These will include the electronic reading list, PowerPoint presentations, recorded lectures and interactive learning packages. The University Libraries at both Coach Lane Campus and City Campus offer an extensive collection of material, both hard copy and electronic. Where required, additional support will be in line with Student Accessibility Plan (SAP).
There are useful study skills guides via the Northumbria University Library. See the Developing your learning skills link: "Developing your Learning Skills" NU Lib Guides
What will I be expected to read on this module?
All modules at Northumbria include a range of reading materials that students are expected to engage with. Online reading lists (provided after enrolment) give you access to your reading material for your modules. The Library works in partnership with your module tutors to ensure you have access to the material that you need.
What will I be expected to achieve?
Knowledge & Understanding:
1. Understand and critically reflect on the fundamental principles and concepts underpinning safe, evidence-based person and family centred care.
2. Develop a critical understanding of the complexities of care needs for children and young people living with acute, long- term or life limiting conditions.
Intellectual / Professional skills & abilities:
3. Critically evaluate the role of the nurse in engaging in collaborative relationships with other disciplines, individuals within services and their significant others to aid the assessment process and ongoing planning of care and care delivery for children and young people living with acute, long- term or life limiting conditions.
4. Critically reflect upon and analyse nursing decision making processes in the formulation of management plans, identifying ethical issues related to positive risk taking and your own professional accountability.
Personal Values Attributes (Global / Cultural awareness, Ethics, Curiosity) (PVA):
5. Critically appraise the values and ethical practice that underpins nursing assessment and ongoing care delivery through collaborative working to meet the needs of children and young people and their families
How will I be assessed?
Formative Assessment:
Provision of formative feedback on performance will be an ongoing process through group/ class discussion in formal scheduled teaching and will align to the criteria of the summative assessment. Working in small peer groups you will present your case study. You will receive feedback against the assessment criteria.
MLO 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Summative Assessment:
The summative assessment for the module will be a 3000-word case study in which you will critically analyse the assessment process undertaken with an individual service user and critically explore the evidence base underpinning the care planned as a result of this assessment. Submission and feedback will be via Turnitin.
MLO 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Pre-requisite(s)
None
Co-requisite(s)
None
Module abstract
You will develop a deeper understanding of the complexities of providing nursing care to people and the impact that specific conditions or events may have on the person and their family including those with acute, long-term or life limiting conditions. You will hear from children, young people and their families who use health and care services to understand the effect the care you provide to the person or family can have. Increasing your knowledge base from different perspectives ensures that as a reflective practitioner you are able to consider individual solutions for the benefit of healthcare users and their families. You will gain the knowledge and skills needed for effective practice in continually changing and challenging environments. You will develp the confidence and ability to think critically and provide expert evidenced based care to become a future nurse who is able to deftly combine knowledge and skill to lead excellence in nursing.
Course info
Credits 20
Level of Study Postgraduate
Mode of Study 2 years Full Time
Department Nursing, Midwifery & Health
Location Coach Lane Campus, Northumbria University
City Newcastle
Start January 2025
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