On completion of this module, the student will be able to:

1. Critically discuss the evolution of, and ethical issues in, children’s nursing.

2. Evaluate theories and models of nursing appropriate to children’s nursing including child and family
centred care.

3. Integrate existing nursing knowledge, skills and attitudes in assessing, planning, implementing and
evaluating care according to the needs of children and their families.

4. Demonstrate knowledge of medication management and respective regulatory guidelines.

5. Demonstrate knowledge and application of the ISBAR guidelines and Paediatric Early Warning
System to recognise, interpret and respond to alterations and deteriorations in a child’s health
status.

6. Demonstrate specific techniques required to communicate with children and their families.

7. Examine scope of practice and factors involved in clinical decision making in the practice of
children’s nursing.

Not applicable to this module.

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Online automated feedback
• Peer review activities
• Self-assessment activities

The individual assignment submitted online will be graded with additional annotated comments to help direct the student with future assignments in relation to academic writing and critical discussion of the literature. The student will also be directed to supports if required such as the UCD writing centre or the online library supports. The cooperative learning will involve some peer review activities as students will need to communicate and discuss the tasks before reaching agreed responses and documenting prior to submission. These tasks are designed to build upon and scaffold the student's individual and collective knowledge over the theory weeks in this introductory block. A grade and overall comment will be assigned online to each group. The students will be supported individually and in small groups to prepare for the summative class testnity for the students to practice questions individually and collectively throughout the theory weeks. The summative class test will be submitted directly to the grader who will grade and return individual feedback to students. An in-house face-to-face repeat quiz will be arranged for any repeats required.