Course Outline
NUR740 Neonatal, Paediatric and Child Health Care
Course Coordinator:Jo Wu (cwu@usc.edu.au) School:School of Health - Nursing
2024Semester 2
Online |
Online | You can do this course without coming onto campus. |
Please go to usc.edu.au for up to date information on the
teaching sessions and campuses where this course is usually offered.
What is this course about?
Description
Clinical practice with children and their families is specialised. Practitioners work with diverse populations in a wide range of hospital and community settings. Evidence based practice requires expert judgement, and decision making in order to solve complex health issues and support optimal health outcomes for infants and children. You will develop your practice capability by learning how to expertly access, analyse, interpret and use healthcare data and critique common models of care to inform care planning and apply your understanding to common infant child and family healthcare contexts.
How will this course be delivered?
| Activity | Hours | Beginning Week | Frequency |
| Online | |||
| Online – Online asynchronous learning and teaching materials and options for lecturer and peer to peer collaborations, and lecturer and peer zoom drop ins. | 3hrs | Week 1 | 13 times |
Course Topics
- Child health indicators
- Data and evidence to support service planning
- Infant and child development
- Attachment theory
- Models of care and approaches to child and family nursing care (including Family Partnerships and Circle of Security)
- Contexts of child health care
- Family and child centred care
What level is this course?
700 Level (Specialised)
What is the unit value of this course?
12 units
How does this course contribute to my learning?
| Course Learning Outcomes On successful completion of this course, you should be able to... | Graduate Qualities Completing these tasks successfully will contribute to you becoming... | |
| 1 | Access, interpret and integrate data and evidence to inform clinical specialist practice in the context of children's health care | Knowledgeable |
| 2 | Critique the assumptions underpinning current models of care in various contexts against evidence and best practice | Creative and critical thinker |
| 3 | Investigate and apply theory and frameworks relevant to child and family health care to specific clinical settings to propose evidence based child and family centred approaches to practice |
Creative and critical thinker Engaged |
| 4 | Apply principles and practices of academic writing and referencing. | Ethical |
Am I eligible to enrol in this course?
Refer to the UniSC Glossary of terms for definitions of “pre-requisites, co-requisites and anti-requisites”.
Pre-requisites
Enrolled in Program SC546, SC742 or SC723
Co-requisites
Not applicable
Anti-requisites
Not applicable
Specific assumed prior knowledge and skills (where applicable)
It is assumed that students will have completed an undergraduate nursing or midwifery program of study.
How am I going to be assessed?
Grading Scale
Standard Grading (GRD)
| High Distinction (HD), Distinction (DN), Credit (CR), Pass (PS), Fail (FL). |
Details of early feedback on progress
Students will be invited to upload and discuss assessment task 1 onto canvas for peer review and discussion prior to formal submission at the end of week 4.
Assessment tasks
| Delivery mode | Task No. | Assessment Product | Individual or Group | Weighting % | What is the duration / length? | When should I submit? | Where should I submit it? |
| All | 1 | Artefact - Creative | Individual | 25% | 250 - 300 words |
Week 4 | Online Submission |
| All | 2 | Written Piece | Individual | 35% | EOI = 250-300 words Academic paper = 1500 words |
Week 8 | Online Assignment Submission with plagiarism check and in class |
| All | 3 | Case Study | Individual | 40% | 3000 - 4000 words |
Week 13 | Online Assignment Submission with plagiarism check |
| All - Assessment Task 1:Child Health Infographic/Health Bulletin and Summary | |
| Goal: | To gain skills in sourcing, analysing, interpreting and reporting on key child health indicators and critically appraise those in light of the evidence. |
| Product: | Artefact - Creative |
| Format: | You will use relevant digital information technologies and national data services to locate, identify, describe, and present a single Child Health Indicator in the form of an Infographic or Health Bulletin. The intended audience is your health professional colleagues. You need to include a critical synthesis (by way of a 250-300 word written summary) of the Child Health Indicator, informed by the broader evidence to identify any implications for one of more areas of neonatal, paediatric or child health practice. You are able to choose an indicator which is directly relevant to your current or proposed area of practice. Details on the format of the Infographic or health bulletin is available online. APA 7th Referencing Style expected. |
| Criteria: |
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| All - Assessment Task 2:'Expression of Interest' for a new clinical role: Part A EOI; Part B academic paper | |
| Goal: | The goal of this assessment task is to critically analyse a contemporary model of care used with infants, children and their families. |
| Product: | Written Piece |
| Format: | Part A You will prepare a written 'Expression of Interest' (EOI) for a clinical position. The EOI will need to describe the health service setting and focus (for example, an acute neonatal or paediatric unit, rural outreach clinic, GP service or community child health service), and the client/patient population. For your selected healthcare setting you will describe the new clinical role, its purpose and scope and encompass a specific contemporary model of care as well as the requirements for its implementation for working with infants, children and their families. Part B You will provide an academic paper in which you will present an academic argument which fully articulates and critiques the selected model of care that underpins the EOI. APA 7th Referencing Style expected. |
| Criteria: |
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| All - Assessment Task 3:Clinical Scenario or Case Study report | |
| Goal: | The goal of this assessment task is to apply evidence and theory to a clinical scenario or case study to propose evidence based and best practice approaches to care. |
| Product: | Case Study |
| Format: | You will negotiate with the course coordinator to self-select a relevant clinical scenario or case study from your clinical practice experience which requires care to be implemented. Alternatively, the teaching team will have a number of scenarios from which you can choose if you are not currently engaged in a clinical setting. You will investigate and propose an evidence based and best practice approach to practice for the chosen scenario or case. You will be required to discuss the background to the scenario or case, approach to care and rationale, implementation and evaluation of outcomes for the infant/child and their family. APA 7th Referencing Style. |
| Criteria: |
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Directed study hours
A 12-unit course will have total of 150 learning hours which will include directed study hours (including online if required), self-directed learning and completion of assessable tasks. Student workload is calculated at 12.5 learning hours per one unit.
What resources do I need to undertake this course?
Please note: Course information, including specific information of recommended readings, learning activities, resources, weekly readings, etc. are available on the course Canvas site– Please log in as soon as possible.
Prescribed text(s) or course reader
Please note that you need to have regular access to the resource(s) listed below. Resources may be required or recommended.
| Required? | Author | Year | Title | Edition | Publisher |
| Recommended | Jennifer Fraser,Donna Waters,Elizabeth Forster,Nicola Brown | 2022 | Paediatric Nursing in Australia and New Zealand | n/a | Cambridge University Press |
Specific requirements
It is recommended that you have reliable internet access. Please consult the UniSC website for information about the recommended computer, search engines and word processing software.
How are risks managed in this course?
What administrative information is relevant to this course?
Assessment: Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is the ethical standard of university participation. It ensures that students graduate as a result of proving they are competent in their discipline. This is integral in maintaining the value of academic qualifications. Each industry has expectations and standards of the skills and knowledge within that discipline and these are reflected in assessment.
Academic integrity means that you do not engage in any activity that is considered to be academic fraud; including plagiarism, collusion or outsourcing any part of any assessment item to any other person. You are expected to be honest and ethical by completing all work yourself and indicating in your work which ideas and information were developed by you and which were taken from others. You cannot provide your assessment work to others. You are also expected to provide evidence of wide and critical reading, usually by using appropriate academic references.
In order to minimise incidents of academic fraud, this course may require that some of its assessment tasks, when submitted to Canvas, are electronically checked through Turnitin. This software allows for text comparisons to be made between your submitted assessment item and all other work to which Turnitin has access.
Assessment: Additional Requirements
Your eligibility for supplementary assessment in a course is dependent of the following conditions applying: The final mark is in the percentage range 47% to 49.4% The course is graded using the Standard Grading scale You have not failed an assessment task in the course due to academic misconduct
Assessment: Submission penalties
Late submission of assessment tasks may be penalised at the following maximum rate: - 5% (of the assessment task's identified value) per day for the first two days from the date identified as the due date for the assessment task. - 10% (of the assessment task's identified value) for the third day - 20% (of the assessment task's identified value) for the fourth day and subsequent days up to and including seven days from the date identified as the due date for the assessment task. - A result of zero is awarded for an assessment task submitted after seven days from the date identified as the due date for the assessment task. Weekdays and weekends are included in the calculation of days late. To request an extension you must contact your course coordinator to negotiate an outcome.
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Study help
For help with course-specific advice, for example what information to include in your assessment, you should first contact your tutor, then your course coordinator, if needed.
If you require additional assistance, the Learning Advisers are trained professionals who are ready to help you develop a wide range of academic skills. Visit the Learning Advisers web page for more information, or contact Student Central for further assistance: +61 7 5430 2890 or studentcentral@usc.edu.au.
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