| Effective Term: | 2027/20 |
| Institute / School : | Institute of Health and Wellbeing |
| Unit Title: | Specialty Paediatric Nursing Practice |
| Unit ID: | HEAAN6608 |
| Credit Points: | 30.00 |
| Prerequisite(s): | Nil |
| Co-requisite(s): | Nil |
| Exclusion(s): | Nil |
| ASCED: | 060301 |
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| Brief description of the Unit |
This unit is designed to build on the student’s theoretical and practical knowledge and skills for acute paediatric healthcare. This unit enables students to examine paediatric nursing practice from the perspective of a strengths-based framework. The focus of the unit is children’s health, based on an in-depth understanding of normal anatomy and physiology, growth, and development. This will prepare students for paediatric nursing assessment, family centered care, important psychomotor skills for health assessment, pre-hospitalisation planning and care, discharge planning, frameworks for safe practice, professional responsibilities, scope of practice, and working in a multidisciplinary team. Within this unit essential elements of effective child-centered, and family-centered culturally sensitive care, including communication, strategies for decision-making, problem solving, clinical reasoning, critical thinking, and reflective practice will be explored. Students will develop an understanding of multidisciplinary care and collaborative practice in the management of unwell children in paediatric settings. There will be an opportunity to explore paediatric nursing practice through therapeutic interactions with the child, family, and multidisciplinary team, nursing assessment, planning, implementing, and evaluating care. |
| Grade Scheme: | Graded (HD, D, C, P, MF, F, XF) |
| Work Experience Indicator: |
| No work experience |
| Placement Component: | |
| Supplementary Assessment:Yes |
| Where supplementary assessment is available a student must have failed overall in the Unit but gained a final mark of 45 per cent or above, has completed all major assessment tasks (including all sub-components where a task has multiple parts) as specified in the Unit Description and is not eligible for any other form of supplementary assessment |
| Course Level: |
| Level of Unit in Course | AQF Level(s) of Course | | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | | Introductory | | | | | | | | Intermediate | | | | | | | | Advanced | | | | | | |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
| Knowledge: |
| K1. | Critically analyse normal growth, development, anatomy, and physiology across infancy, childhood, and adolescence, and evaluate common deviations to inform patient care plans and management. |
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| K2. | Critically evaluate and interpret health assessment data from paediatric assessments and therapeutic interventions (including pharmacology), in order to evaluate their effectiveness in complex, urgent, or time-critical situations and inform ongoing nursing priorities and care planning. |
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| K3. | Analyse legal, ethical, and psychosocial considerations in paediatric nursing, and evaluate strategies to safeguard child and family wellbeing, including responses to grief, loss, and professional self-care. |
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| Skills: |
| S1. | Demonstrate a collegial approach to working with the interdisciplinary team through multidisciplinary decision-making, referral pathways, and health promotion strategies, and analyse their impact on safe, coordinated paediatric care and family wellbeing. |
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| S2. | Apply advanced critical thinking and analytical skills in order to accurately interpret age-appropriate paediatric assessments, and evaluate safe, effective interventions including pain management, responses to clinical deterioration, and emergency care. |
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| Application of knowledge and skills: |
| A1. | Critically analyse complex paediatric health problems and apply evidence-based, strengths-based, and family-centred frameworks to evaluate safe and effective nursing interventions. |
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| A2. | Evaluate the use of advanced clinical reasoning and multidisciplinary collaboration in paediatric care, and analyse strategies that uphold child and family participation, privacy, dignity, and respect. |
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| A3. | Demonstrate and evaluate reflective practice strategies that enhance professional growth, resilience, and expertise in complex paediatric nursing contexts. |
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| A4. | Apply collegiality, effective leadership, and teamwork approaches within the interdisciplinary team consistent with evidence-based practices when caring for paediatric patients to promote patient and family centred care in paediatric environments. |
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| Other outcomes: |
| Unit Content: |
Topics may include: - Overview of pregnancy, labour, birth, and newborn transition
- Child growth, development, behavior, and anatomical/physiological variations
- Age-appropriate paediatric health and pain assessment
- Pharmacology and pain management in paediatric care
- Child- and family-centered, strengths-based, and culturally sensitive care
- Communication with children, families, and interdisciplinary teams
- Professional responsibilities including mandatory reporting and teamwork
- National Safety and Quality Standards in paediatric settings
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| Graduate Attributes: |
| Federation University recognises that students require key transferable employability skills to prepare them for their future workplace and society. FEDTASKS (Transferable Attributes Skills and Knowledge) provide a targeted focus on five key transferable Attributes, Skills, and Knowledge that are be embedded within curriculum, developed gradually towards successful measures and interlinked with cross-discipline and Co-operative Learning opportunities. One or more FEDTASK, transferable Attributes, Skills or Knowledge must be evident in the specified learning outcomes and assessment for each FedUni Unit, and all must be directly assessed in each Course.
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| FED TASK and descriptor | Development and acquisition of FEDTASKS in the Unit | | Level | FEDTASK 1
Interpersonal | Students at this level will demonstrate an advanced ability in a range of contexts to effectively communicate, interact and work with others both individually and in groups. Students will be required to display high level skills in-person and/or online in: • Using and demonstrating a high level of verbal and non-verbal communication • Demonstrating a mastery of listening for meaning and influencing via active listening • Demonstrating and showing empathy for others • High order skills in negotiating and conflict resolution skills\\ • Demonstrating mastery of working respectfully in cross-cultural and diverse teams. | Y - Present | FEDTASK 2
Leadership | Students at this level will demonstrate a mastery in professional skills and behaviours in leading others. • Creating and sustaining a collegial environment • Demonstrating a high level of self -awareness and the ability to self-reflect and justify decisions • Inspiring and initiating opportunities to lead others • Making informed professional decisions • Demonstrating initiative in new professional situations. | Y - Present | FEDTASK 3
Critical Thinking and Creativity | Students at this level will demonstrate high level skills in working in complexity and ambiguity using the imagination to create new ideas. Students will be required to display skills in: • Reflecting critically to generate and consider complex ideas and concepts at an abstract level • Analysing complex and abstract ideas, concepts and information • Communicate alternative perspectives to justify complex ideas • Demonstrate a mastery of challenging conventional thinking to clarify complex concepts • Forming creative solutions in problem solving to new situations for further learning. | Y - Present | FEDTASK 4
Digital Literacy | Students at this level will demonstrate the ability to work competently across a wide range of tools, platforms and applications to achieve a range of tasks. Students will be required to display skills in: • Mastering, exploring, evaluating, managing, curating, organising and sharing digital information professionally • Collating, managing complex data, accessing and using digital data securely • Receiving and responding professionally to messages in a range of professional digital media • Contributing competently and professionally to digital teams and working groups • Participating at a high level in digital learning opportunities. | Y - Present | FEDTASK 5
sustainable and Ethical Mindset | Students at this level will demonstrate a mastery of considering and assessing the consequences and impact of ideas and actions in enacting professional ethical and sustainable decisions. Students will be required to display skills in: • Demonstrate informed judgment making that considers the impact of devising complex solutions in ambiguous global economic environmental and societal contexts • Professionally committing to the promulgation of social responsibility • Demonstrate the ability to evaluate ethical, socially responsible and/or sustainable challenges and generating and articulating responses • Communicating lifelong, life-wide and life-deep learning to be open to the diverse professional others • Generating, leading and implementing required actions to foster sustainability in their professional and personal life | Y - Present |
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| | Learning Outcomes Assessed | Assessment Tasks | Assessment Type | Weighting | Professional Standards |
| 1. |
K1, K2, S2, A1, A3 |
Application of theoretical concepts of care for children and families. |
Written Task |
40-60% |
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| 2. |
K2, K3, S1, S2, A1, A2 |
Application of theoretical concepts to provision of care for children and families, and analysis of a contemporary paediatric health issue. |
Poster and Oral Presentation |
40-60% |
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| 3. |
K1, K2, K3, S1, S2, A1, A2, A3, A4 |
Ability to apply evidence-based theoretical knowledge, skills, and clinical reasoning in a paediatric setting. |
Clinical Practice Portfolio Hurdle |
S/U |
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