NRS528 Child Health Care and Promotion (8)

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 affected by maltreatment. Child healthcare will be considered across global, national and local healthcare contexts with particular attention to rural settings.

Students will explore a range of multidisciplinary/interdisciplinary frameworks for care; theories and strategies for optimising growth and development; theories and strategies to acknowledge the rights of the child and child safety. Students will extend their existing professional knowledge and experience to include the health care of First Nations children and their children in the first two years of life.

No offerings have been identified for this subject in 2022.

Where differences exist between the Handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.

Subject Information

Grading System

HD/FL

Duration

One session

School

School of Nursing, Paramedicine and Healthcare Sciences

Enrolment Restrictions

Subject is paired with NRS325

Subject Relationships

NRS325 Paired Subject

Incompatible Subjects

NRS325

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:
  • be able to critically analyse current issues that affect the health and wellbeing of children globally, nationally and locally;
  • be able to compare and contrast evidence-informed strategies for promoting and maintaining child health and wellbeing at individual, family and community levels;
  • be able to apply evidence-informed frameworks, theories, and practices to enable children to reach their potential for growth and development;
  • be able to critically analyse the role of the family in child wellbeing;
  • be able to apply the International Convention on the Rights of the Child to professional roles including responsibilities for keeping children safe from maltreatment;
  • be able to 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
  • be able to critically evaluate their role in the interdisciplinary context of promoting and maintaining children's health.

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; and
  • Health and care of families for First Nations children 0-2 years.

The information contained in the CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: June 2022. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.

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