Abstract
This subject provides opportunity for students, as professionals working in multidisciplinary environments, to explore the promotion and maintenance of health and wellbeing for children to ensure they reach their potential. Students will interrogate evidence-informed practices and frameworks to meet the healthcare needs of children with illness, injuries, disabilities, and those … For more content click the Read More button below.
Syllabus
This subject will cover the following topics:
Promoting and maintaining growth and development;Health promotion and care of children with a disability;Health and care of children who are experiencing/have experienced illness or injury;Management of common acute presentations (optional);Health and care of children who are experiencing/have experienced maltreatment; andHealth and care of … For more content click the Read More button below.
Learning outcomes
Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:
1.
critically analyse current issues that affect the health and wellbeing of children globally, nationally and locally;
2.
compare and contrast evidence-informed strategies for promoting and maintaining child health and wellbeing at individual, family and community levels;
3.
apply evidence-informed frameworks, theories, and practices to enable children to reach their potential for growth and development;
4.
critically analyse the role of the family in child wellbeing;
5.
apply the International Convention on the Rights of the Child to professional roles including responsibilities for keeping children safe from maltreatment;
6.
analyse and acknowledge the impact of colonisation on the health and wellbeing of First Nations children and families and identify strategies to address the health inequities experienced by First Nations children and families; and
7.
critically evaluate their role in the interdisciplinary context of promoting and maintaining children's health.
Enrolment restrictions
Restricted to students enrolled in the Master of Nursing (with specialisation) or the Graduate Certificates in Nursing