Module: The Child with Ongoing Healthcare Needs

Module Specifications.

Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025

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Date posted: September 2024

Module Title	The Child with Ongoing Healthcare Needs
Module Code	NS380 (ITS) / NUR1055 (Banner)
Faculty	Science & Health	School	Nursing, PsyT & Comm Health
Module Co-ordinator	Yvonne Corcoran
Module Teachers	-
NFQ level	8	Credit Rating	5
Pre-requisite	Not Available
Co-requisite	Not Available
Compatibles	Not Available
Incompatibles	Not Available

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Description

Child specific module to explore and develop students knowledge of the needs of children and adolescents with ongoing healthcare needs

Learning Outcomes

1. Analyse the role of the children' s nurse in relation to the assessment, planning and delivery of care to children and adolescents with ongoing health care needs in a variety of health care settings including the community.
2. Critically examine the pathophysiological processes in the child with ongoing healthcare needs and relate them to the delivery of nursing care.
3. Critically apraise the social, economic, psychological and emotional impact on the child and family of a child with ongoing healthcare needs and the importance of family centered care and play in meeting the holistic needs of each child and their family.
4. Determine how and why to apply evidence based practice in relation to the nursing care of the child and family with ongoing health care needs in a variety of healthcare settings including the community.
5. Evaluate the role of the children' s nurse in meeting the health promotion and education needs of the child and their family along the life continuum.

*Type*	*Hours*	*Description*
Workload	Full-time hours per semester
Lecture	32	realted to the module learning outcomes
Clinical laboratory	4	clinical skills related to learning outcomes for the module
Tutorial	4	No Description
Independent Study	85	No Description
Total Workload: 125

All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml

Indicative Content and Learning Activities

The nature of disease and pathophysiological changes in the child and young person with ongoing healthcare needs
Revisit the anatomy and physiology of the renal and endocrine systems focusing on each system as the child grows and develops. The effect of disease and pathology on the normal functioning of the genitourinary and endocrine systems in childhood. The care associated with ongoing illness in the child and adolescent and their family including the physiological, psychological and social aspects of care.

Effects of ongoing illness on the child and family
Family centred care, facilitation of play and education in the healthcare setting. This will include health education and promotion and the role of the children’s nurse in the provision of health education and promotion to the child and family in a variety of settings.

Mental health issues in children and adolescents
The nature and range of mental health issues in childhood and adolescents will be explored, including care planning, care delivery and evaluation of care in both the acute and community setting. Mental health conditions to be explored include eating disorders, depression, anxiety and self-harm.

Disability in childhood
The effects of a range of physical and intellectual disabilities in childhood to include the care and support needs of the child with a disability and their family in the acute and community setting.

Pharmacological interventions
The principles of pharmacological interventions required most frequently in the management of children with endocrine, genitourinary and mental health conditions will be explored in detail.

Evidence based nursing interventions for the child and family with ongoing illness
Nursing assessment strategies, care planning, care delivery and the evaluation of care provided to the child and their family with acute and chronic genitourinary conditions, endocrine dysfunction, disability and mental health issues.

Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment	0%	Examination Weight	100%

Type	Description	% of total	Assessment Date
Course Work Breakdown

Reassessment Requirement Type
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories: Resit category 1: A resit is available for both* components of the module. Resit category 2: No resit is available for a 100% continuous assessment module. Resit category 3: No resit is available for the continuous assessment component where there is a continuous assessment and examination element.
* ‘Both’ is used in the context of the module having a Continuous Assessment/Examination split; where the module is 100% continuous assessment, there will also be a resit of the assessment
This module is category 1

Indicative Reading List

Hockenberry, M.J.: 2007, Wongs Nursing Care of Infants and Children, 8th edition, Mosby, Elsevier, London,
Trigg, E., Mohammed, T.: 2006, Practices in Children's Nursing, Churchill Livingston, London,
Hanas, R.: 2007, Type 1 Diabetes in children, Adolescents and Young Adults, 3rd edition, Class Publishing, London,
Macqueen, S., Bruce, E.A., Gibson, F.: 2012, The Great Ormond Street Hospital Manual of Children's Nursing, Wiley and ons, UK,
Chambers, M.A., Jones, S.: 2007, Surgical nursing of children, Butterworth-Heinemann, Edinburgh,
Thompson, M: 2012, Child and adolescent mental health: theory and practice, 2nd, Hodder education, London,
Thomas, N: 2014, Renal nursing, 4th, Wiley Blackwell, UK,

Other Resources

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