Assessment of clinical practice (LO 5) pass/refer/fail
Reflective essay (2500words) using a reflective model and including an action plan (LO's 1, 2, 3 and 4) 100%

Both elements have to be passed to achieve the module

Formative Assessment:
Feedback from session lecturers
Group and individual tutorials
Feedback from personal tutor
Feedback from practice mentor/s

The aim of this module is to explore the application of evidence based nursing knowledge, skills and professional, ethical and legal principles necessary to develop the fundamentals of children's nursing care.

- Application of the NMC Code, standards, advice and guidance including The Code: Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics and Guidance on Professional Conduct for Nursing and Midwifery students performance
- Application of nursing law and ethics to children's nursing
- Children's rights advocacy and gaining consent
- Working in partnership with the child and family and other agencies, to include family centred care, negotiation of care and empowerment
- Legislation applicable to children
- Application of communication skills in order to develop therapeutic relationships with the child and family, communicate with colleagues and the wider inter-professional team
- Communication methods to include play and distraction, communication tools, communication with sensory and cognitively impaired children and when people are anxious, distressed or in pain
- Normal child development - physical, cognitive, moral
- The effects of hospitalisation on the child and family
- Maintaining accurate records, confidentiality and storage to include Data Protection Act 1998
- Information governance
- An introduction to child centred frameworks for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care
- The process of care planning and documentation
- Care delivery within a variety of health and social care settings and the home, exploring values, dignity, culture and diversity, non-discriminatory practice
- Contemporary guidance to include local and national policy, NICE guidelines, Benchmarks
- An introduction to the role of the children's nurse and other health and social care practitioners ( to include School nurse/ Specialist Community Public Health Nurse)
- The role of the children's nurse in recognising and responding to the needs of all that come into their care including babies, pregnant and postnatal women, adults, people with mental health problems, physical disabilities, learning disabilities, with long term problems and those experiencing cognitive impairment.
- An introduction clinical governance, risk and risk assessment to include factors affecting the safety of health and social care professionals, service users, carers and significant others, in hospital and home environments
- Safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults
- Recognising the sick child to include assessment of vital signs
- Assessment of children's pain
- Therapeutic holding for procedures
- An introduction to children's nutrition to include breastfeeding
- Childhood infectious diseases and immunisations
- Care of Next Infant
- Self -awareness, reflection and clinical supervision
- Placement preparation and evaluation

Scheduled Learning Activites: (90 hours)
52 hours key lectures
9 hours workshops, small group work
24 hours inter-professional workshops, values based discussions with service users or using scenarios
3 hours Assessment Preparation
2 hours group tutorials

Guided Independent Study: (210 hours)
90 hours directed learning / using blackboard : directed reading, directed preparation for classroom or practice activity
120 hours self directed reading and assessment preparation

DAVIES, R. and DAVIES, A. (2011) Children and Young People¿s Nursing. London: Hodder and Stoughton.
DIMOND, B. (2011) Legal Aspects of Nursing. 6th Ed. Harlow: Pearson Education.
MacQUEEN, S., BRUCE, E. and GIBSON, F. (2012) The Great Ormond Street Hospital Manual of Children¿s Nursing Practices. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
McSHERRY, W., McSHERRY, R. and WATSON, R. (Eds.) (2012) Care in Nursing Principles, values and skills. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Enrolled on the BSc (Hons) Nursing Practice / Registered Nurse programme
Access to practice placements

Structural inequalities and discrimination in relation to individual characteristics such as age, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability and social class, and how these impact both on life chances and experience, and on the need for and access to advice