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Faculty of Health, Engineering and Science

School: Nursing and Midwifery

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Contemporary Approaches to Communicating with Children and Young People

  • Unit Code

    NNT5102

  • Year

    2015

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    2

  • Credit Points

    20

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    Online

Description

This unit focuses upon the communication and critical thinking skills essential for the specialist children and young people's (CYP) nurse. The primary aim is to develop skills that will enhance communication between CYP nurses and children and their families.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from NNT5100

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded NNT4102

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Complete a critically evaluated quality improvement project.
  2. Critically evaluate the range of communication and interpersonal skills/strategies required to enhance care for children and young people.
  3. Critique the implementation of research based practice.
  4. Justify how effective communication enhances the therapeutic relationship with children, young people and their families.
  5. Justify the necessity for a quality improvement initiative.

Unit Content

  1. Evidence based practice and improving quality care within a children and young people's health care setting.
  2. How to plan implement and evaluate a quality improvement project within a children and young peoples' health care setting.
  3. Strategies of communication that enhance the care ofand promotes awareness offamilies from diverse cultural backgrounds.
  4. Verbal and non verbal communication processes that enhance family centred care.
  5. Verbal and non verbal communication strategies that promote the therapeutic relationship with children young people and their families

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, clinical reflection and on-line discussion/debate.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ExaminationInterview in practice20%
ProjectQuality Improvement project.80%

Text References

  • ^ Glasper, A., & Richardson, J. (2010). A textbook of children's and young peoples' nursing (2nd ed.). London, England: Elsevier.
  • Taylor, K. (2010). Health care and indigenous Australians: cultural safety in practice (1st ed.). South Yarra, Vic: Palgrave Macmillan.

Journal References

  • Pediatrics
  • Paediatric Nursing
  • Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal
  • Rural Health Advocate
  • Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
  • Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health

^ Mandatory reference

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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Faculty of Health, Engineering and Science

School: Nursing and Midwifery

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Contemporary Approaches to Communicating with Children and Young People

  • Unit Code

    NNT5102

  • Year

    2015

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    2

  • Credit Points

    20

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    Online

Description

This unit focuses upon the communication and critical thinking skills essential for the specialist children and young people's (CYP) nurse. The primary aim is to develop skills that will enhance communication between CYP nurses and children and their families.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from NNT5100

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded NNT4102

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Complete a critically evaluated quality improvement project.
  2. Critically evaluate the range of communication and interpersonal skills/strategies required to enhance care for children and young people.
  3. Critique the implementation of research based practice.
  4. Justify how effective communication enhances the therapeutic relationship with children, young people and their families.
  5. Justify the necessity for a quality improvement initiative.

Unit Content

  1. Evidence based practice and improving quality care within a children and young people's health care setting.
  2. How to plan implement and evaluate a quality improvement project within a children and young peoples' health care setting.
  3. Strategies of communication that enhance the care ofand promotes awareness offamilies from diverse cultural backgrounds.
  4. Verbal and non verbal communication processes that enhance family centred care.
  5. Verbal and non verbal communication strategies that promote the therapeutic relationship with children young people and their families

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, clinical reflection and on-line discussion/debate.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ExaminationInterview in practice20%
ProjectQuality Improvement project.80%

Text References

  • ^ Glasper, A., & Richardson, J. (2010). A textbook of children's and young peoples' nursing (2nd ed.). London, England: Elsevier.
  • Taylor, K. (2010). Health care and indigenous Australians: cultural safety in practice (1st ed.). South Yarra, Vic: Palgrave Macmillan.

Journal References

  • Pediatrics
  • Paediatric Nursing
  • Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal
  • Rural Health Advocate
  • Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
  • Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health

^ Mandatory reference

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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