High Dependency Care and Skills Acquisition for Children and Young People (Cambridge University Hospitals NHFT/LSBU Partnership) (Level 6)

Program Overview

This module aims to equip professionals in acute child and youth care with knowledge and skills for delivering High Dependency care. It develops clinical decision-making and skills through formative and summative assessments, including a skills portfolio and simulated clinical exam. The module prepares professionals for career advancement in High Dependency Units and enhances their ability to recognize and stabilize critically ill children and young people.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

This module is designed for professionals involved in the acute care of children and young people. It aims to equip them with the knowledge and skills to deliver High Dependency level care to children and young people with the aim of obtaining clinical stabilisation.

Objectives:

• Enable professionals to monitor and initiate evidence-based high dependency care interventions in conjunction with the multidisciplinary team.
• Develop professionals' knowledge, decision-making, and clinical skills in relation to the high dependency care of children and young people.

Assessment:

• Formative assessment: Simulated practical skills assessment with peer review in the classroom.
• Summative assessment:
• CW1: Skills acquisition:
Submission of a skills acquisition portfolio which is assessed in practice. Pass / Fail
• CW2: Simulated clinical examination with oral and practical questions:
Pass mark 40% 100% weighting
• Both practice-based and theoretical assessments must be passed in order to pass the module overall.

Careers:

• This module provides focus and direction for professionals who wish to develop their knowledge and skills in the care of seriously ill children or young people.
• All professionals involved in the acute care of children and young people should have a robust understanding of the signs that a child is critically ill, be able to recognise when they are deteriorating and be able to initiate strategies that will help stabilise their clinical condition.
• Building on previous experience, this module has been designed to equip professionals with the knowledge and skills adopting a clinical reasoning approach to deliver High Dependency level care to children and young people with the aim of obtaining clinical stabilisation.
• For all modules and courses the applications portal will close 4 weeks before the start date.
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