Children's Nursing BN (Hons)

This module is designed to develop an understanding of basic human anatomy and physiology, show how these are linked to the biological basis of pharmacology, and subsequently applied in practice. 

This module aims to introduce the concept of holistic person-centred care of service users across the lifespan with an understanding of human development. Understanding the importance of effective communication with service user, family, MDT across healthcare settings. 

This module aims to introduce evidence-based practice, and the impact on the provision of high-quality care. The module will explore the impact of socio-economic and environmental factors on health and well-being across the lifespan. 

This module is designed to prepare a student to become an effective nurse for the 21st century integrating learning-to-learn and reflection leading to persona and professional development.  

This module provides students with practice learning opportunities which provides a range of experiences across fields. The module will introduce cross field and field specific skills for nursing. The learner will develop an understanding of, and be able to demonstrate, the skills required for practice. 

This module develops an understanding of Interprofessional practice, evidence-based service improvement and innovation.  

This module will provide you with practice learning opportunities which provide a range of experiences across field. The module will build on cross field and field specific skills for nursing. You will actively participate in and work towards increasing confidence and competence to able to provide care.

The field content of this module is designed to enable you to meet the needs of service users and carers in your fields of practice and also deliver cross field care for all service user groups. 

1. Maintaining self-care including reflective practice, reasonable adjustments in practice plan (RAPP), emotional intelligence, resilience, healthy lifestyle choices and clinical supervision. Advocacy and challenging discrimination. Record keeping, confidentiality, privacy and dignity.
2. Assessing lifestyle factors and supporting others to make informed choices to manage health challenges. Assessing motivation and capacity to promote wellbeing recognising the person’s capacity to be a partner in their care. Recognising and acting upon signs of deterioration in mental health and providing evidence based support and skills. Understanding the family in partnership when considering end of life care and supporting treatment and care preferences.
3. Working in partnership with service users, relatives, carers and other professionals to evaluate and monitor care effectiveness to readjust care plan goals, rural and urban perspectives. Using alternative communication strategies such as translator services to be able to provide people, families and carers with accurate information when providing treatment and care. Lived experience connectors. Maintaining clear and legible documentation and using digital technologies in care delivery. Initiate appropriate interventions after making informed judgements on commonly encountered presentations.  
4. Participate in nursing procedures including assessing skin status and hygiene and providing wound care including aseptic technique, product selection and drain management, nutritional assessment and artificial hydration and nutrition including insertion and removal of nasogastric tubes, assessment and promotion of self-management in bladder and bowel continence and removal and insertion of different urinary catheters in all genders, neurological observations and seizure management, supporting mobility and managing falls, respiratory assessment including peak flow, chest auscultation and administration of oxygen via different routes. Nasal and oral Suctioning techniques, blood glucose monitoring, cardiac assessment including ECG and infection prevention and control methods. Social prescribing practice.
5. Interpretation of normal and abnormal blood profiles and venepuncture and cannulation skills. Managing transfusion of blood components, Recognising and treating sepsis, positive risk taking and risk aversion.
6. Safe and effective discharge planning across services and caseloads, negotiation and advocacy of people and making reasonable adjustments to aid assessment, planning and delivery of care. Managing yourself and a team, deescalating conflict and managing concerns and anxieties in others.
7. Medicines management, application in practice of knowledge of pharmacology. Preparation and administration of medications. Accurate documentation for medicines management. Medicines calculations. Recognising and escalating concerns of harm from medication administration and error.

To provide you with practice learning opportunities which provide a range of experiences across field. The module will build on cross field and field specific skills for nursing. You will actively participate in and work towards increasing confidence and competence is able to provide care with minimal guidance.

The field content of this module is designed to enable you to meet the needs of service users and carers in your field of practice and also deliver cross field care all service user groups. 

1. Maintaining self-care including reflective practice, reasonable adjustments in practice plan (RAPP), emotional intelligence, resilience, healthy lifestyle choices and clinical supervision. Advocacy and challenging discrimination. Record keeping, confidentiality, privacy and dignity.
2. Assessing lifestyle factors and supporting others to make informed choices to manage health challenges. Assessing motivation and capacity to promote wellbeing recognising the person’s capacity to be a partner in their care. Recognising and acting upon signs of deterioration in mental health and providing evidence based support and skills. Understanding the family in partnership when considering end of life care and supporting treatment and care preferences. Health needs assessments, Global practice experience.
3. Working in partnership with service users, relatives, carers and other professionals to evaluate and monitor care effectiveness to readjust care plan goals, rural and urban perspectives. Using alternative communication strategies such as translator services to be able to provide people, families and carers with accurate information when providing treatment and care. Lived experience connectors. Maintaining clear and legible documentation and using digital technologies in care delivery. Initiate appropriate interventions after making informed judgements on commonly encountered presentations.  
4. Participate in nursing procedures including assessing skin status and hygiene and providing wound care including aseptic technique, product selection and drain management, nutritional assessment and artificial hydration and nutrition including insertion and removal of nasogastric tubes, assessment and promotion of self-management in bladder and bowel continence and removal and insertion of different urinary catheters in all genders, neurological observations and seizure management, supporting mobility and managing falls, respiratory assessment including peak flow, chest auscultation and administration of oxygen via different routes. Nasal and oral Suctioning techniques, blood glucose monitoring, cardiac assessment including ECG and infection prevention and control methods. Social prescribing practice.
5. Interpretation of normal and abnormal blood profiles and venepuncture and cannulation skills. Managing transfusion of blood components, Recognising and treating sepsis, positive risk taking and risk aversion.
6. Safe and effective discharge planning across services and caseloads, negotiation and advocacy of people and making reasonable adjustments to aid assessment, planning and delivery of care. Leadership and management in own field of nursing including advanced leadership and political understanding of the context of practice.
7. Medicines management, application in practice of knowledge of pharmacology. Preparation and administration of medications. Accurate documentation for medicines management. Medicines calculations. Recognising and escalating concerns of harm from medication administration and error.

This module aims to explore health promotion and prevention of ill health in your chosen field of practice. The aim is to demonstrate understanding of enhanced communication to empower and enable service users, and work effectively across the MDT / range of settings.

The field content of this module is designed to enable you to meet the needs of service users and carers in your field of practice and deliver cross field care to all service user groups. 

1. Communication – developing therapeutic relationships with infants, children, young people, their families and carers; empower and enable young people to lead & manage their own care; assessing capacity; partnership working with child or young person, family and MDT; working in teams; MDT communication; documentation; handover & sharing of information; the use of play, distraction, art & music, alternative forms of communication and education to enhance communication and understanding in children and young people.
2. Application of public health and health promotion to children, young people and families. Prevention of ill health; health inequalities; life experiences & choices including impact of family choices on children and young people; risk taking behaviours and suicide prevention in young people. Socio-economic factors; impact of spirituality, culture and cultural competence and brief interventions. Rural and urban perspectives.
3. Person centred care; child & family centred care; integrated care; collaborative working. Prioritisation of care; care planning; evidence based practice in relation to providing high quality & safe person centred care for a range of field specific conditions; therapeutic activities and the use of arts and humanities in children’s nursing.

This module will focus on child field specific nursing conditions with increasing complexity and service users with co-morbidities. The module will explore identification and management of risk and factors which influence this.

The field content of this module is designed to enable you to meet the needs of service users and carers in your field of practice and deliver cross field care to all service user groups. 

1. Field specific conditions; co-morbidities; coordinating complex care; recognition and management of deteriorating patient, including identification of appropriate investigations, interventions & escalation.
2. Recognition and management of risk to ensure safe care – risk assessment tools; impact of human factors; hierarchy; role modelling; team work; communication; working across different clinical & professional services.
3. Discharge and transition planning – simple and complex discharge; inter & intra hospital transfer including paediatric critical care transfer; transfer between teams; rural and urban perspectives; service transition across the lifespan including transition from child and young people’s services to adult services; interagency team work, collaboration and child & family centred care; accurate communication and documentation.
4. Role modelling and the impact of self on service users including children and young people; MDT outcomes; emotional intelligence; leadership; motivation; ethical considerations.

To apply knowledge of human anatomy and physiology, principles of pharmacology and how these are applied in child field specific nursing practice.

This will include:

1. Relevant anatomy and physiology, pathophysiology, homeostasis and the application to field specific nursing: field genomics, respiratory, cardiovascular, neurological, MSK, skin, endocrine, gastro intestinal and renal. Epidemiology and demography of field specific manifestations. Altered pathophysiology including signs of deterioration and sepsis. Example child: Revision of anatomy and physiology of the respiratory system, explore the conditions which are specific to neonates, children and young people.
2. Impact of ageing on field specific groups, altered pathophysiology and psychosocial factors affecting homeostasis, including physiological and psychosocial impact of pain, anxiety, stress and discomfort. Example: Using family centre care and specific assessments for children and young people to understand the effects of pain, anxiety, stress and discomfort from the conditions outlined.
3. Advancing pharmacology field specific knowledge, introduction to and the impact of poly pharmacy, medication usage and treatments, continued completion of personal formulary, knowledge of pharmacology and the ability to recognise the effects of medicines, allergies, drug sensitivities, side effects, contra-indications, incompatibilities, adverse reactions, prescribing errors and over the counter medication usage in field specific nursing. Application of mental capacity in medicines management. Example: Analyse the specific requirements of licensed a non-licensed drugs with children and young people.
4. Application of the principles of pharmacology and pharmacokinetics relating to a range of field specific conditions and related to management of interventions as applied to field.

This module critically explores the complexities of human anatomy and physiology and pharmacology in preparation for registration and prescribing ready. 

This module is designed to support transition to registration, through developing students’ leadership and teaching potential in preparation for twenty first century nursing.   

This module is designed to support transition to registration, through developing students’ appreciation of the steps involved in developing a proposal for service improvement in order to enhance the delivery of care for the 21st century. 

To provide you with practice learning opportunities which provide a range of experiences across fields. The module will build on cross field and field specific skills for nursing. You will actively participate in and work towards increasing confidence and competence to be able to provide care with minimal guidance.

The field content of this module is designed to enable you to meet the needs of service users and carers in your fields of practice and also deliver cross field care all service user groups:

1. Maintaining self-care including reflective practice, reasonable adjustments in practice plan (RAPP), emotional intelligence, resilience, healthy lifestyle choices and clinical supervision. Advocacy and challenging discrimination. Record keeping, confidentiality, privacy and dignity, promoting professionalism in others. Mentoring and supervising others. Being a professional role model.
2. Completing whole body assessment using different strategies and technologies to assist. Assessing capacity and making reasonable adjustments when a person lacks capacity, Referring to other health and social care professionals and services. Rural and Urban perspectives.
3. Recognising deterioration in mental, physical, and emotional health and recognising vulnerability and reducing harm from others. Keeping accurate and legible records, symptom management with increasing complexity including pain, distress, anxiety and confusion. Working with families in partnership and using digital technologies to assist. Using advanced communication techniques and strategies    
4. Participate in nursing procedures including assessing skin status and hygiene and providing wound care including aseptic technique, product selection and drain management, nutritional assessment and artificial hydration and nutrition including insertion and removal of nasogastric tubes, assessment and promotion of self-management in bladder and bowel continence and removal and insertion of different urinary catheters in all genders, neurological observations and seizure management, supporting mobility and managing falls, respiratory assessment including peak flow, chest auscultation and administration of oxygen via different routes. Nasal and oral Suctioning techniques, blood glucose monitoring, cardiac assessment including ECG and infection prevention and control methods. Social prescribing practice.
5. Interpretation of normal and abnormal blood profiles and venepuncture and cannulation skills. Managing transfusion of blood components, Recognising and treating sepsis, positive risk taking and risk aversion.
6. Safe and effective discharge planning across services and caseloads, negotiation and advocacy of people and making reasonable adjustments to aid assessment, planning and delivery of care. Leadership and management in own field of nursing including advanced leadership, commissioning and political understanding of the context of practice.
7. Medicines management, application in practice of knowledge of pharmacology. Preparation and administration of medications. Accurate documentation for medicines management. Medicines calculations. Recognising and escalating concerns of harm from medication administration and error.