Clinical Assessment and Planning Care for Children

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Work in partnership with children and their families to develop child centred plans of care based on a nursing assessment and models which reflect nursing theories and practices.
• Demonstrate knowledge and skill in communication with children and their carers to gather information to inform psychological and physical assessment of health and wellbeing.
• Apply knowledge of child development, human anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology to assessment findings to identify and distinguish baseline normal and variances with children and young people.
• Demonstrate understanding of how the physical assessment of body systems over the duration of childhood informs the comprehensive assessment of children and young people's health and wellbeing.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Class discussions

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: Oral feedback from academic staff
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: Yes

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.