HLTH6146 The Context of Care for Children, Young People and their Families

Module Overview

This module aims to develop your knowledge and understanding when assessing and managing children and young people with health and social care needs.

Aims and Objectives

Module Aims

To develop your knowledge and understanding when assessing and managing children and young people with health and social care needs.

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

Examine and select appropriate evidence to inform effective individualised health promotion for children and young people.
Critically consider the interrelationship between children’s lifespan development and the delivery of child centred care.
Appraise how individual differences, capabilities and needs influence therapeutic relationships with children, young people and their families
Critically discuss contemporary ethical, legal, professional and philosophical perspectives on children’s rights and best interests

Syllabus

• Health promotion with children, young people and their families in order to prevent later ill health • Empowering and enabling children and young people to participate in care delivery, and in decisions affecting their care. • Children’s understanding of their healthcare needs and how this underpins informed choice • Initiating, maintaining and disengaging from therapeutic relationships between children, families and healthcare professionals • Forming effective and appropriate partnerships and alliances with children and their carers • Education of children and families in relation to self-care • Play, distraction and communication tools • Communication with children with cognitive or sensory impairment • Communication and therapeutic interventions for children and young people with mental health problems • Consent and the mature minor • Confidentiality and sexual health • Children’s rights and best interests, and their interface with family centred care • Children as carers • Children as service users and their participation in service evaluation and development • Nurse as a change agent

Learning and Teaching

Teaching and learning methods

Key note lectures Directed Study activities Self-Directed Study Action Learning Groups Student Presentations Technology enhanced learning

Type	Hours
Preparation for scheduled sessions	15
Follow-up work	8
Lecture	27
Tutorial	15
Fieldwork	6
Completion of assessment task	30
Wider reading or practice	15
Total study time	116

Resources & Reading list

Institute of Health Promotion and Education.

Glasper E.A, Richardson J (2010). Textbook of Children and Young Peoples Nursing.

Santrock,J. (2008). Lifespan Development.

DH and DFES (2008). The child health promotion programme: Pregnancy and the first five years..

Hubley. J. Copeman, J. (2008). Practical Health Promotion.

How to think about Health Promotion. ,Vol. 34, No 1 , pp. 0.

Critical care decisions in fetal and neonatal medicine. Nuffield Council of Bioethics.

Coggan J (2012). What Makes Health Public?: A Critical Evaluation of Moral, Legal, and Political Claims in Public Health.

Jackson E (2010). Medical Law: Text, Cases and Materials..

Shribman, S (2007). Making It Better: for children and young people - clinical case for change.

Assessment

Summative

Method	Percentage contribution
Professional conversation	100%

Repeat Information

Repeat type: External