Module delivery dates
This module will next run by distance learning commencing on 20 March 2013.
Why study with us?
This module will enhance the ability of health care providers to recognise and manage the health care needs of acutely ill children.
What can this course lead to?
Having completed this module you may wish to bring these 20 credits into the University Advanced Diploma (UAD) Practice Development: Emergency Care. Please discuss this opportunity with the module leader before completion of this module.
Alternatively, you may wish to use this module towards one of our top-up degrees: BSc (Hons) Nursing Practice or BSc (Hons) Practice Development.
Finance
NHS Funded Trust Employees only:
After you have decided which module you would like to study, you will need to check that you meet the entry criteria. If this module is to be funded by your employing Trust, the next step is to contact the CPD lead (training manager) at your Trust. They will then ask you to complete the CPD-Apply application. Once this has been authorised by your trust, the University will contact you with further information.
If you intend to fund this by other means, please follow the University’s ‘apply now’ link on the left hand side of this page.
Course Summary
Health assessment strategies, models and tools used to recognise the acutely ill / deteriorating child. The ‘acute abdomen’ presentation e.g. peritonitis, intussusception, volvulus. Neurological signs (meningism, raised intracranial pressure, seizures, altered neurological states). Respiratory distress & Cardiovascular compromise (e.g. Asthma, bronchiolitis, Stridor, FBAO, congenital heart defects, endocarditis) Emergency life support, Thermal injuries, poisoning. Overwhelming sepsis. Trauma and accidental injury, compensated and decompensated shock.
Modules
HMFG6001 Acutely Ill Child (20 credits at level 6)
Intended learning outcomes
On successful completion, you will be able to:
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Develop knowledge and understanding of acute presentations in children including red flag diagnoses and red flag symptoms.
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Discuss the health assessment and treatment of the acutely ill child.
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Evaluate appropriate early warning and other tools and investigations which will assist the practitioner in detecting the deteriorating condition of the child.
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Review the management of critically ill children within your area of practice
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Reflect upon the application of the knowledge and understanding gained to your practice
Indicative core bibliography
Barnes, K. (2003) Paediatrics: A Clinical Guide for Nurse Practitioners, Oxford, Butterworth Heinemann.
BMA /Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, BNF for Children 2010-2012 BMJ Publishing Group.
Cameron, P et. Al (2011) Textbook of Paediatric Emergency Medicine (2nd ed.), Philadelphia, Churchill Livingstone
Candy, D. Davies G Ross E (2006) Clinical Paediatrics and Child Health, Edinburgh, Elsevier.
Cleaver, K. & Webb, J. (eds) (2007) Emergency Care of Children and Young People. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing
Cockett, A. & Day, H. (eds) (2010) Children’s High Dependency Nursing. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell
Core competencies for the care of acutely ill and injured children and young people. (2006) NHS Education for Scotland
Dixon, M., Crawford, D., Teasdale, D. & Murphy, J. (eds) (2009) Nursing the Highly Dependent Child or Infant. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell
Duderstadt,K (2006) Pediatric Physical Examination: An Illustrated Handbook. St Louis, Mosby
Engel J (2006) Pediatric Assessment (5th Ed) St Louis Mosby
Goldbloom, R (2010) Pediatric Clinical Skills: (4th ed.) Edinburgh, Saunders
Hay, W., Levin, M.J., Deterding, R.R.& Sondheimer, J.M. (2008) (19thed.) Current Pediatric Diagnosis and Treatment New York; Lange/ McGraw Hill.
Miall, L., Rudolf, M., Levene, M. (2007) Paediatrics at a Glance. Oxford Butterworth Science.
Snelson, E. (2011) The Essential Clinical Handbook for Common Paediatric Cases. London: BPP Learning Media
Twycross, A., Dowden, S. & Bruce, L. (eds) (2009) Managing Pain in Children: A Clinical Guide. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell
www.nice.org.uk
www.patient.co.uk
www.sign.ac.uk
www.spottingthesickchild.com
Resources and facilities
We are amongst the UK’s leading health and social care faculties and are proud of the high level of support we are able to offer to our students. We provide a wide range of high-quality courses supported by expert academic and clinical practice staff. If you join us you will enjoy great facilities and learn alongside caring, committed and experienced professionals. Our employment record is excellent.