Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Child and Family Health Assessment

Credit Points: 12.00

Terms

Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

NURS1023

Bundoora Campus

Postgraduate

150H Health Sciences

Face-to-Face

 Sem 1 2006,
Sem 1 2007,
Sem 1 2008,
Sem 1 2009,
Sem 1 2010,
Sem 1 2011,
Sem 1 2012,
Sem 1 2013,
Sem 1 2014,
Sem 1 2015,
Sem 1 2016

NURS1023

Bundoora Campus

Postgraduate

173H School of Health and Biomed

Face-to-Face

 Sem 1 2017,
Sem 1 2018

Flexible Terms

Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

NURS1023

Bundoora Campus

Postgraduate

173H School of Health and Biomed

Face-to-Face

 PGRDFx2019 (ZZZZ)

NURS1023

Bundoora Campus

Postgraduate

173H School of Health and Biomed

Face-to-Face

 PGRDFx2020 (ZZZZ)

NURS1023

Bundoora Campus

Postgraduate

173H School of Health and Biomed

Face-to-Face

 PGRDFlex22 (All)

NURS1023

Bundoora Campus

Postgraduate

173H School of Health and Biomed

Face-to-Face

 PGRDFlex23 (All)

NURS1023

Bundoora Campus

Postgraduate

173H School of Health and Biomed

Face-to-Face

 PGRDFlex24 (STEM)

NURS1023

Bundoora Campus

Postgraduate

173H School of Health and Biomed

Face-to-Face

 PGRDFlex25 (All)

Course Coordinator: Dr Leanne Sheeran

Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 7445

Course Coordinator Email: leanne.sheeran@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Location: 220.04.038


Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

Required Concurrent Study

You should undertake following course/s at the same time as this course as it contains areas of knowledge and skills which are implemented together in practice.

Alternatively, you may be able to demonstrate the required skills and knowledge before you start this course.

Contact your course coordinator if you think you may be eligible for recognition of prior learning.

Assumed Knowledge

To be eligible to enrol in this course you must have successfully completed a Bachelor of Nursing degree or equivalent, and a Graduate Diploma in Midwifery or Bachelor of Midwifery degree or equivalent. You must also hold a current registration with AHPRA as both a Nurse and a Midwife, have completed a minimum of one year post registration clinical experience in each of nursing and midwifery, and demonstrate recent clinical experience, defined as having worked in nursing or midwifery for a minimum of one year in the past five years.


Course Description

Child and Family Health Assessment is designed to provide you with foundational theoretical and practical knowledge and skills to support your entry into supervised Maternal and Child Health (MCH) clinical experience in community settings. This course is delivered predominantly online and builds on and enhances knowledge and practical skills gained during previous professional nursing and midwifery practice. The course is a prerequisite for NURS1019 Child and Family Nursing in the Community and NURS2183 Maternal and Child Health Clinical Placement.

Child and Family Health Assessment is focused on three central areas of practice:

  • Engaging with families and working together to promote child health and family wellbeing,
  • Assessment and intervention for child health and developmental issues, and
  • Assessment of maternal and family wellbeing including support and referral for early parenting concerns.

Child and Family Health Assessment will introduce you to physical and developmental assessment skills and the associated range of validated screening tools (including those used for primary and secondary developmental screening).

If you have a long-term medical condition and/or disability you should contact the Program Manager or RMIT’s Equitable Learning Service for further advice. Students need to be able to meet the inherent requirements of the program

At any time prior to or during your placement if there are concerns raised related to your fitness to practice the Program Manager can request that you gain full medical clearance to continue your placement.


Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

This course contributes to the development of the Program Learning Outcomes for GD159 Graduate Diploma in Child and Family Health Nursing in the following way:

  • PLO 4: Apply evidence-based knowledge to conceptualise and deliver the safe and effective practice in a variety of contexts, independently and collaboratively, with emerging technological advancements. 
  • PLO 5: Demonstrate the ability to generate and evaluate solutions to all aspects of interdisciplinary professional practice while complying with ethical, legal and regulatory standards.  

 

 


On successful completion of this course you should be able to:

  1. Critically analyse issues impacting on maternal, child and family health and apply observation and communication skills to explore and assess these.
  2. Demonstrate an ability to conduct physical assessment on infants, toddlers and pre-schoolers, using techniques that appropriately reflect a child’s developmental stage, cognitive level, cultural background, and purpose of the assessment.
  3. Perform advanced assessments of infant/child development and maternal and family wellbeing utilising validated screening tools and critically interpreting the findings.
  4. Work in partnership with families to clarify needs and promote child health and family wellbeing.


Overview of Learning Activities

You will be actively engaged in a range of learning activities such as lectorials, tutorials, self-directed learning modules on Canvas, practicals, laboratories, seminars, project work, class discussion, individual and group activities. Delivery is predominantly online with clinical skills sessions on campus.

This course involves Work Integrated Learning experiences such as Clinical Workshops on Campus on Early Intervention.

RMIT have state of the art simulated learning facilities for student learning and practice. You will participate in simulated practice within these facilities in preparation for placement. As a part of participation you may be filmed for learning, teaching, reflection and assessment and this is considered an inherent part of our learning and teaching program. Recordings will be maintained in accordance with our assessment, document retention and privacy policies.

You are encouraged to be proactive and self-directed in your learning, asking questions of your lecturer and/or peers and seeking out information as required, especially from the numerous sources available through the RMIT library, and through links and material specific to this course that is available through myRMIT Studies Course. 


Overview of Learning Resources

RMIT will provide you with resources and tools for learning in this course through myRMIT Studies Course. 

There are services available to support your learning through the University Library. The Library provides guides on academic referencing and subject specialist help as well as a range of study support services. For further information, please visit the Library page on the RMIT University website and the myRMIT student portal.


Overview of Assessment

This course contains hurdle requirements. All hurdle requirements for this course are indicated clearly in the assessment regime that follows, against the relevant assessment task(s) and all have been approved by the College Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Learning & Teaching).

Hurdles are necessary to demonstrate to the accrediting body that students are competent and have been sufficiently assessed using practice-focused professional standards.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task 1: Online MCQ quiz (20 minutes duration)
Weighting 10%
This assessment task supports CLO 2

Assessment Task 2: Simulated Physical Assessment (infant, or toddler) and Reflection on learning  
Weighting 40%
This assessment task supports CLOs 1 & 2

Assessment Task 3: Written Assignment
Weighting 50%
This assessment task supports CLOs 1, 3 & 4

If you have a long-term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or Equitable Learning Services if you would like to find out more.