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Paediatric Intensive Care Practice (NURS90096)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Off Campus
About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
April
Email: continuing-education@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: + 61 3 8344 0149
Contact hours: https://unimelb.edu.au/professional-development/contact-us
Overview
Availability | April - Off Campus |
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This subject examines theoretical principles of paediatric intensive care practice and integrates these with knowledge gained from Applied Pathophysiology, Foundations in Paediatric Critical Care and Paediatric Intensive Care Nursing. Students engage in work integrated learning in their individual clinical settings to build knowledge and skills to support comprehensive patient assessment across the lifespan from neonate to adolescence, and the management of technologically complex monitoring and patient care interventions. Patient and family perspectives of acute illness and disease will be considered in the development and implementation of nursing interventions as well as inter-disciplinary care planning. Students will gain essential knowledge to plan, monitor and evaluate nursing interventions as well as the knowledge of how to recognise and respond to medical emergencies, including patients who are at risk of clinical deterioration.
Intended learning outcomes
At the completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Develop knowledge and skills supporting comprehensive, age-appropriate and family centred assessment and monitoring of the critically ill paediatric patient and their family
- Apply scientific principles to further explore knowledge and evidence-based skills applicable to the specialty of paediatric intensive care
- Critically analyse patient assessment and diagnostic findings to recognise and prioritise age appropriate, specific, and family centred therapeutic interventions for paediatric patients experiencing complex paediatric disease or injury states
- Apply advanced specialist paediatric knowledge and evidence to clinical decision making when developing a plan of care and determining nursing interventions in critically ill and/or injured children and their families
- Apply knowledge and specialist skills to respond to paediatric patients experiencing acute alterations to health and wellness occurring in the paediatric intensive care environment
- Apply skills in problem solving, critical thinking, rational inquiry, and self-directed learning to the delivery of specialist paediatric intensive care nursing
Generic skills
At the completion of this subject, students should be able to demonstrate:
- The capacity for information seeking, retrieval and evaluation;
- Critical thinking and analytical skills;
- An openness to new ideas;
- The ability to communicate knowledge through web based activities.
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Admission into the GC-PAEICN Graduate Certificate in Paediatric Intensive Care Nursing
AND
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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NURS90076 | Applied Pathophysiology |
July (Online)
January (Online)
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12.5 |
This subject is not available for students admitted in any other courses.
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Formative written assessment (Professional Practice Portfolio Part A
| First half of the teaching period | 50% |
Summative written assessment (Professional Practice Portfolio Part B)
| During the assessment period | 50% |
Clinical Skills Assessment x 6 (500 words each) (Professional Practice Portfolio Part C)
| Distributed evenly across the study period and due by the end of assessment period. | 0% |
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Dates & times
- April - Off Campus
Coordinator Kim Morris Mode of delivery Off Campus Contact hours 24 hours over 32 weeks including webinars, drop in sessions, and asynchronous learning activities. Total time commitment 170 hours Pre teaching start date 1 April 2024 Pre teaching requirements In Week 0 students are required to familiarise themselves with the subject's Learning Management System (LMS), subject information, including assessment tasks. Teaching period 8 April 2024 to 17 November 2024 Last self-enrol date 2 April 2024 Census date 24 May 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 30 August 2024 Assessment period ends 24 November 2024 April contact information
Email: continuing-education@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: + 61 3 8344 0149
Contact hours: https://unimelb.edu.au/professional-development/contact-us
What do these dates mean
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- Your tuition fees, academic transcript and statements.
- And for Commonwealth Supported students, your:
- Student Learning Entitlement. This applies to all students enrolled in a Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP).
Subjects withdrawn after the census date (including up to the ‘last day to withdraw without fail’) count toward the Student Learning Entitlement.
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Graduate Certificate in Nursing Practice (Paediatric Intensive Care)
Last updated: 31 January 2024