Managing Acute Changes in Health Status (Child field GEN)

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Explore how the nurse may identify, prioritise and respond to risk factors that may lead to deterioration in health status
• Critically discuss the knowledge and skills necessary to undertake a prioritised assessment of people who are experiencing an acute change in health status
• Apply knowledge of human anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology in the context of undertaking a bio-psycho-social assessment.
• Evaluate the evidence base which supports nursing responses to acute changes in health status
• Analyse how clinical judgement and decision making skills inform the management of nursing care

Content for ALL Fields: Clinical judgement & decision making Responding to mental and emotional distress including agitation, aggression and challenging behaviour Responding to self-harm and or suicidal ideation Recognising and responding to acute deterioration in physical health status (e.g. sepsis) Breaking significant news Sudden and / or traumatic death Ethical and legal issues in acute care: DNACPR, DOLS Managing risks to vulnerable groups with acute health care needs (e.g. Learning Disability) Human Factors: Safety culture, Debriefing Medicines Management: Safe medicine use. (e.g. drug interactions / reactions including anaphylaxis; recreational drugs; using technology to improve medicines safety; forms of prescribing including PGD) Child Specific ASSESSMENT SKILLS History taking from carers and children Physical Assessment of children over the course of childhood and early adulthood Psychosocial assessment and planning for mental wellbeing in children Pain assessment Co production of care plans for children and their carers Assessment of children’s health status using a body systems approach Assessing and planning for children’s palliative and end of life care needs Medicines management: Assessing medicine use MANAGING ACUTE CHANGES IN HEALTH Managing neonatal complex and acute care Child and adolescent mental health service provision Children and young people living with eating disorders Self harm in children and young people Managing children’s pain Management of respiratory collapse in childhood Management of sepsis and related infection and infectious diseases in childhood Acute assessment and management: Diabetic ketoacidosis in children Children’s fluid and fluid management Acute care settings: managing sudden death Promote, restore and stabilise health status in children Skills: Taking a structured history Venepuncture and cannulation Physical assessment skills Airway skills and supporting the at risk patient BLS update Responding to physiological deterioration NG tube insertion

The aim of this module is to develop your knowledge and understanding of nursing assessment and interventions that enable you to meet the needs of people safely and effectively.You will evaluate care to enable management of people’s physical and mental health needs in all environments to promote, restore and stabilise health status

Formative

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

Seminar

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: Peer & seminar lead feedback.
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

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.