Co-ordinating Long Term Care in Partnership (Child field GEN)

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Reflect on the lived experience of children and their carers where a child is living with long term care needs, and critically analyse how a nurse may respond.
• Explore the role of the nurse in working in partnership with children to empower, support and promote the health and well-being of children and their carers where a child is living with a long-term condition.
• Analyse and evaluate strategies that may be used to coordinate the care of children with long-term care needs across different settings including planning for palliative and end of life care.
• Articulate and analyse strategies employed by nurses to manage risk and promote a safe and effective health care environment.
• Critically discuss the nature of contemporary challenges and conflicts facing a children’s nurse.

Content for ALL fields:

Collaborative / shared decision making.

Positive risk taking and living with risk.

Supported self management (including use of digital technologies in promoting self-management and sustaining supportive networks).

Technological dependency.

Integrated care, multidisciplinary and multiagency team working.

Monitoring and co-ordinating care (including use of technology and data).

Categorical and non-categorical approaches to the care of individuals with a long-term conditions and disabilities.

Health economics and long-term partnership care

Medicines Management: (Auditing and monitoring medicines management; storage; legal and professional issues in medicines management practice; Concordance)

Child Field

Co-ordinating community children’s nursing

Technological dependence in childhood

Preadmission and discharge planning: transitioning for children between settings.

Lost childhoods: Chronic sorrow living with disability and illness

Oncology conditions of childhood

Living with and surviving cancer in childhood

Mental wellbeing for children living with illness

Living with congenital and genetic conditions in childhood

Living with long term conditions a body systems approach

Conflict management and resolution

Legal frameworks

Patient safety human factors

Giving evidence in proceedings

Supporting children and their carers with coping with living life limiting and threatening illness

Process of transitioning between child and adult services

Self-efficacy and self-management for the developing young person, working with carers (parents)

Skills:

De-escalation, safe holding and restraint

Managing difficult conversations

Care after death

Syringe drivers

Nasogastric tubes and enteral nutrition

Catheterisation and catheter management

Lectures

Seminars

Guided independent study

Formative

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

Individual Presentation

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: Peer and seminar lead feedback.
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

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.