Module: Care & Service Provision Closer to Home

Module Specifications.

Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025

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Date posted: September 2024

Module Title	Care & Service Provision Closer to Home
Module Code	NS5101 (ITS) / NUR1133 (Banner)
Faculty	Science & Health	School	Nursing, PsyT & Comm Health
Module Co-ordinator	Yvonne Corcoran
Module Teachers	-
NFQ level	9	Credit Rating	10
Pre-requisite	Not Available
Co-requisite	Not Available
Compatibles	Not Available
Incompatibles	Not Available

Coursework Only

Description

In this module, students will critically explore contemporary and emerging trends in community-based interdisciplinary health and wellbeing service provision for children, young people and their families. Students will examine evidence-focused approaches including early years interventions, integrated care, and care closer to home for children and young people with chronic conditions and complex continuing care needs. Students will be encouraged and facilitated to reflect on their own personal and professional practice by sharing their experiences, knowledge and expertise through in-class discussions, tutorials, lectures and assignments.

Learning Outcomes

1. Critically analyse contemporary and emerging trends in the organisation and delivery of care in the community, including care closer to home, to promote the health and wellbeing of the child, young person and their family across the age trajectories.
2. Critically evaluate inter-disciplinary/integrated care approaches/community partnerships to care including shared models of service provision, equity and accessibility of services that promote the health and well-being of the child, young person and their family.
3. Critically consider how reflection can be used to advance learning and advance their area of practice.
4. Critically appraise national and international research and policy that influence how inter-disciplinary support and care is provided and delivered to children and their families in the community.
5. Appraise the role and range of early year’s interventions and community based health interventions that promote health and wellbeing for the child and family.

*Type*	*Hours*	*Description*
Workload	Full-time hours per semester
Lecture	5	Face-to-face lectures
Lecture	12	Online synchronous classes
Tutorial	5	Small class group discussions / group work/presentations
Fieldwork	40	Asynchronous engagement with module tasks, including webinars/seminars/reflective journal/review of online materials/learning.
Independent Study	188	Students are given specific readings including online materials, book chapters and journal articles for each lecture. They and are expected to review them during their independent learning time over the 12 weeks of the module.
Total Workload: 250

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

Approaches to shared service community based healthcare and CCTH for the child and family
• The historical context of the provision and evolvement of primary healthcare for children and their families to include policy, governance and current research at national and international level. • Models of care closer to home (CCTH) and integrated care pathways for children and their families nationally and internationally. • Communication pathways across services and shared models of interdisciplinary service provision for children and their families. • Accessibility, equity, equality and diversity in the provision of care to children and their families.

The provision of care in the community for children with complex continuing care needs
• Evolving practice and contemporary approaches to care for children with complex continuing healthcare needs and their families. • Key pressure points in the delivery of care closer to home. • Technology and the child with complex continuing care needs • The physical/psychological/psychosocial effects on parents, siblings and extended family • The delivery of respite and palliative care/end of life care for the child, young person and their family with CCCN

Early Years’ Interventions promoting health and wellbeing
• Factors that influence child health and well-being in the early years (0-5 years). • Complex and non-complex needs assessment for children with a disability including early intervention teams (EIT), and school-aged teams (SAT). • Inter-disciplinary approaches and strategies that incorporate child/family based interventions to support child health and well-being (early years). • Community based health promotion strategies for children/YP and their families. • Risk and protective factors that influence child health and wellbeing (early years).

Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment	100%	Examination Weight	0%

Type	Description	% of total	Assessment Date
Course Work Breakdown
Assignment	written assignment 3500 words	60%	Week 12
Presentation	individual presentation	40%	Week 10

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

Hewitt-Taylor, J.: 2007, Children with Complex and Continuing Health Needs: Experiences of Children, Families and Care Staff., JK publishing: UK,
Teare, J.: 2008, Caring for children with complex needs in the community, Blackwell Publishing,
Laver-Bradbury, C., Thompson, M., Gale, C., Hooper, C.H.: 2021, Child and Adolescent Mental Health: Theory and Practice., Routledge: UK,
Bassot, B.: 2016, The Reflective Practice Guide: an interdisciplinary approach to critical reflection., Routledge: UK.,
Ungar: 2020, Wrking with Children and Youth with complex needs, Routledge, UK,
Hain, R.: 2021, An Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care for Children, Oxford, UK,

Other Resources

64073, Website, Prevention and early intervention network, 0, HSE The Nuture Programme: infant health and wellbeing, https://www.pein.ie/about-us/, 49517, website, HSE, 0, The Nurture Programme: infant health and wellbeing, https://www.hse.ie/eng/health/child/nurture/,