Caring for Children and Young People Within a High Dependency Unit (LSBU/GOSH Partnership)

Program Overview

This module enhances knowledge and competence in high dependency care for children, focusing on professional practice and developing new skills based on evidence. Through a work-based approach with tutorial support, students critically examine their practice, apply new knowledge, and extend their skills within professional standards. The module culminates in a presentation and questioning on an episode of care, demonstrating evidence-based rationale for nursing interventions.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

This module aims to provide students with an opportunity to develop their knowledge, skills, and competence in relation to children’s high dependency care. This module enables students to contribute to their development and improvement of clinical skills and knowledge within children’s high dependency nursing. It is undertaken through a work-based approach and is student managed with tutorial support and guidance from the module co-ordinator. This module of learning has been designed to allow each student to define their learning relative to their own area of practice and expertise within children’s high dependency nursing.

Objectives:

• To critically examine current levels of children’s high dependency professional practice and competence within an inter-professional working environment.
• To develop and apply new knowledge and skills and enhance high dependency nursing competence based on an analysis of the evidence in line with professional and occupational boundaries.
• To initiate and work within professional regulatory standards when developing and/or extending skills.

Assessment:

Formative assessment:

• Reflective logs will detail the experience gained in the assessment and care of a patient within the high dependency unit and will provide evidence of developing competence.
• A minimum of three episodes of care should be recorded in the reflective log in order to pass the academic module overall.

Summative assessment:

• 20 minute presentation based on an episode of care followed by questioning on the patient and condition chosen.
• The presentation should focus on a single treatment strategy and the evidence-based rationale for any nursing interventions.
• This module is appropriate for nurses who are coming up to two years qualified and over, as by that time you would have consolidated your learning and are most likely beginning to care for acutely unwell patients within your areas.
• Typical intake(s): Semester 1, Semester 2
• Venue: GOSH
• Entry requirements: 2 years post entry to the NMC register
• Pre-Requisites: N/A