Unit Synopsis
Infants, children and adolescents are a unique group of individuals who have ever-changing, complex needs different to those of the adult person. This unit will expose you to the theories of child development, the fundamental rights and needs of the child and their families. Assessment and communication skills necessary to care for the child and their families in a range of settings will be explored. You will also review concepts of safety, health promotion and legal and ethical issues in relation to nursing children and their families.
Details
| Level | Undergraduate |
|---|---|
| Unit Level | 3 |
| Credit Points | 6 |
| Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 1 |
| Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.125 |
| Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
Pre-requisites Students must have completed 96 credit points and NURS12158 Clinical Nursing Practice 3 or NURS13126 Critical Care Nursing Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework). |
| Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
| Residential School | No Residential School |
Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2019
Term 1 - 2019 Profile
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Assessment Tasks
| Assessment Task | Weighting |
|---|---|
| 1. Written Assessment | 40% |
| 2. Presentation and Written Assessment | 60% |
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).
Past Exams
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Term 1 - 2019 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 4.70 (on a 5 point Likert scale), based on a 58.82% response rate.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Source: Student evaluations.
Not all links were working in the moodle site.
Ensure links provided on moodle site are checked repeatedly during term and fixed as needed.
No rollover of links and all were active
Source: Student evaluations; Self reflection.
Broad format, including assessment items, in the unit appeared to be well received by students and they commented they enjoyed the zoom lectures/sessions.
Unit coordinator will update and revise the unit as necessary but will continue with the broad format of the unit. The zoom sessions will be scheduled again in the next offering of the unit as they appear to be of value to both students and staff.
The recommendation was upheld with minimal student interaction or accessing of the recorded sessions.
Source: Student evaluations; self reflection.
Feedback from students was largely very positive. Students commented that the unit coordinator was available, helpful and provided timely responses to queries.
Continue to prioritise answering student queries, particularly around assessment due dates.
This was actioned and according to the feedback worked well.
Source: Broader feedback.
Industry paediatric staff reviewed the assessment items and all feedback received was positive.
Industry feedback valuable to unit coordinator when considering development of assessment items that are relevant to industry and in alignment with learning outcomes.
Industry feedback was obtained and materials included in the learning and their views on the assessments.
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Utilise evidence-based practice principles to compare the unique biopsychosocial stages of child development and the impact these have on children and their families
- Examine legal, ethical and socio-cultural trends and their effect upon the provision of safe collaborative nursing care to children and their families.
- Discuss cultural awareness principles and family centred care as applied to the nursing care of children and families.
- Evaluate health promotion strategies at a local, national and international level relevant to the health and wellness of children and their families.
The learning outcomes are linked to the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Accreditation Standards for registered nurses and the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia Registered Nurse Standards for Practice.
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | • |
| 2 - Presentation and Written Assessment | • | • | • | • |
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Communication | • | • | • | • |
| 2 - Problem Solving | • | • | • | • |
| 3 - Critical Thinking | • | • | • | • |
| 4 - Information Literacy | • | • | • | • |
| 5 - Team Work | • | • | • | |
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | • | • | • | |
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | • | • | • | • |
| 8 - Ethical practice | • | • | • | • |
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 10 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | |||
| 2 - Presentation and Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | |||