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Foundations in Paediatric Nursing (NURS90084)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Online
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April
Email: continuing-education@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: + 61 3 8344 0149
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Overview
| Availability | April - Online |
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Foundations in Paediatric Nursing is designed to promote an understanding of the theoretical foundations of Paediatric nursing to support safe practice when caring for paediatric patients. Students will explore growth and development principles from newborn to the adolescent and explore assessment and management of the paediatric patient. The impact of hospitalisation on the child and family unit will also be examined. Interventions initiated by nurses at a beginning level of specialist paediatric practice will be explored, including the technical and scientific knowledge that is a pre-requisite for skill development. The evidence base underpinning practice will be evaluated.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students will be able to:
- Apply scientific knowledge that underpins competent practice as a beginning specialist paediatric nurse;
- Critically analyse patient assessment and diagnostic findings to recognise and prioritise age appropriate, specific, and family centred therapeutic interventions for paediatric patients experiencing common disease states;
- Apply scientific principles to understand, justify and evaluate nursing interventions specific to beginning paediatric nursing practice and
- Demonstrate problem-solving, critical thinking, rational inquiry and self-directed learning skills by applying specialist knowledge to common paediatric nursing problems.
Generic skills
On completion of the subject students should have developed the following generic skills of the Melbourne graduate and graduate coursework student:
- A capacity to articulate their knowledge and understanding in written modes of communication;
- A capacity to manage competing demands on time, including self-directed project work.
- An ability to evaluate and synthesize the research and professional literature in this discipline
Last updated: 8 November 2024