Clinical Assessment and Planning Care for Children

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Apply knowledge of child development, human anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology to assessment findings to identify and distinguish baseline normal and variances with children and young people.
• Demonstrate understanding of how the physical assessment of body systems over the duration of childhood informs the comprehensive assessment of children and young people's health and wellbeing.
• Demonstrate knowledge and skill in communication with children and their carers to gather information to inform psychological and physical assessment of health and wellbeing.
• Work in partnership with children and their families to develop child centred plans of care based on a nursing assessment and models which reflect nursing theories and practices.

Communication cultures and gathering information

History taking from carers

History taking from children

Physical Assessment of children over the course of childhood and early adulthood

Psychosocial assessment and planning for mental wellbeing in children

Pain assessment

Assessing parenting

Self-care assessment for children and their carers

Assessing in acute and urgent care for children

Co production of care plans for children and their carers

Assessing and planning care for neonates

Assessment of children’s health status using a body systems approach

Assessing and planning for children’s palliative and end of life care needs

Ethics in children’s nursing decisions on the edges of life and death

Human factors as a source of error in child health

Medicines management: Assessing medicine use

Clinical Skills sessions

Taking a structured history

Physical assessment skills

Venepuncture and cannulation

Mental Health assessment

Teaching and learning methods

The module is taught using a variety of learning and teaching approaches which may include:

Lectures

Seminars

Resources & Reading list

Internet Resources

Pediatric health and physical assessment.

Textbooks

Jarvis C (2012). Physical examination and health assessment. Philadelphia: Saunders.

Rushforth H. (Rushforth H). Assessment made incredibly easy!. London: Lippincott williams & Wilkins.

Chiocca EM (2015). Advanced Pediatric assessment. New York: Springer Publishing Company.

Macqueen S Bruce EA and Gibson F (2012). The Great Ormond Street Hospital manual of children’s nursing practices.. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.

Peate, I and Gormley-Fleming, E (2015). Fundamentals of Children's Anatomy and Physiology. A Textbook for Nursing and Healthcare Students. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons.

Gormley-Fleming, E & Peate, I (2019). Fundamentals of Children's Applied Pathophysiology. An Essential Guide for Nursing and Healthcare Studentss. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons.

Assessment strategy

This assessment package will enable you to develop your assessment skills through seminars and clinical skills. There will be an examination to test the development of your knowledge of assessment and planning.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat Information

Repeat type: External