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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Contemporary Approaches to Communicating with Children and Young People
  • Unit Code

    NNT5102
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Maggie ZGAMBO

Description

This unit explores communication, interpersonal and critical thinking skills that enhance communication between paediatric nurses and children and their families. It will explore concepts of evidence based practice and principles of the research process in order to promote quality care to children and their families.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 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 evidenced 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, evaluate and disseminate the results of a quality improvement project within a children and young peoples' health care setting.
  3. Research principles and concepts.
  4. Strategies of communication that may enhance the care of families from all cultural and diverse backgrounds.
  5. Verbal and non-verbal communication processes that enhance family centred care.
  6. Verbal and non-verbal communication strategies that promote the therapeutic relationship with children young people and their families.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

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 School Progression Panel.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationPoster design for children and young people and their family20%
AssignmentCommunicating with children and young people and their family30%
ProjectQuality improvement project50%

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 Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Contemporary Approaches to Communicating with Children and Young People
  • Unit Code

    NNT5102
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Maggie ZGAMBO

Description

This unit explores communication, interpersonal and critical thinking skills that enhance communication between paediatric nurses and children and their families. It will explore concepts of evidence based practice and principles of the research process in order to promote quality care to children and their families.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 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 evidenced 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, evaluate and disseminate the results of a quality improvement project within a children and young peoples' health care setting.
  3. Research principles and concepts.
  4. Strategies of communication that may enhance the care of families from all cultural and diverse backgrounds.
  5. Verbal and non-verbal communication processes that enhance family centred care.
  6. Verbal and non-verbal communication strategies that promote the therapeutic relationship with children young people and their families.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

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 School Progression Panel.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationPoster design for children and young people and their family20%
AssignmentCommunicating with children and young people and their family30%
ProjectQuality improvement project50%

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 Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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