Course Details in 2025/26 Session

Module Title	LH Recognising and responding to acute deterioration within complex children’s nursing care. (RAR6)
School	Institute of Clinical Sciences
Department	Nursing and Midwifery
Module Code	02 39990
Module Lead	Tracey Valler
Level	Honours Level
Credits	40
Semester	Full Term
Pre-requisites
Co-requisites
Restrictions	None
Contact Hours	Lecture-40 hours Seminar-20 hours Tutorial-2 hours Practical Classes and workshops-36 hours Guided independent study-302 hours Total: 400 hours
Exclusions
Description	This module is designed to enable students to analyse and synthesise detailed knowledge of altered health conditions to safely respond to deteriorating patients. Students will interpret a range of results to formulate a defendable condition hypothesis (working diagnosis). Furthermore, students will critically analyse the potential chronic condition and pharmacological effects on acutely ill service users. Using these results students will independently articulate clinical management decisions developing an appropriate plan of adult nursing care including safe delegation or referral to medical staff or other appropriate professionals.   The module will develop knowledge of prescribing legislation, and application of detailed pharmacological knowledge to adult nursing. Bioscience concepts will be developed as a core component to support students with their clinical decision-making. A range of learning and teaching activities will be used, including case studies, lead lectures, group work seminars, and skills and simulation teaching, supported by digital learning and engagement with service users, other agencies, and professionals, as appropriate. Any outstanding communication and management skills or nursing procedures will be assessed through simulation during this module with the involvement of appropriate practice assessors.
Learning Outcomes	By the end of the module students should be able to: Demonstrate and rationalise an evidence-based systematic clinical assessment to produce a condition hypothesis with service users related to children's nursing practice.  Prioritise and rationalise appropriate care interventions, in order to independently plan, share information, manage, and delegate children's nursing care.  Demonstrate knowledge of prescribing legislation, prescription generation, and critical apply in-depth pharmacological knowledge to administration and optimisation of medicines for children and their families; Utilise bioscience knowledge to critically analyse and evaluate clinical information in order to interpret physiological deterioration in a service user with comorbidities and acute complex conditions.
Assessment
Assessment Methods & Exceptions	Assessment: Assessment: (50%) OSCE (LO 20.1; 20.2;); (50%) 2 hour written examination (LO 20.3 & 20.5); Reassessment: Students will re-sit the failed component(s)
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