Summary:
This module has been designed to enable nurses working within neonatal units to provide safe, compassionate and effective care for neonates and their families in special care and high dependency areas. The focus of this module is to provide theoretical knowledge and the essential core skills required to care proficiently and holistically for newborns admitted to special care and high dependency nurseries. This module forms part of the neonatal pathway enabling registered nurses to become neonatal Qualified in Specialty (QIS).
The module aims are for the participants to:
- Critically analyse knowledge and understanding to be able to assess, plan, interpret and deliver holistic, appraised evidence-based care alongside multi-disciplinary team.
- Allow participants to evaluate and determine appropriate care interventions for neonates requiring special and high dependency care.
- Enable participants to identify deterioration and neonatal emergencies and escalate and select appropriately interventions within their limitations.
- Enable participants to determine readiness for discharge and plan transfers with discharge planners and multidisciplinary team.
- Promote and demonstrate partnership working with parents and carers in delivering family integrated care.
On successful completion of the module, students will be able to:
- Apply underpinning pathophysiology of disease processes through systems approach in order to evaluate safe nursing interventions for neonates.
- Synthesise and critique knowledge of anatomy and pathophysiology of disease processes in order to implement and perform appropriate care interventions.
- Critically appraise and evaluate relevant care plans and documentation for neonates in special care and high dependency area, with the ability to initiate and modify plans as required.
- Appraise and apply appropriate communication with families and other members of the multidisciplinary team when caring for the neonate across a variety of situations.
This module has been designed to enable nurses working within neonatal units to provide safe, compassionate and effective care for neonates and their families in special care and high dependency areas. The focus of this module is to provide theoretical knowledge and essential core skills required to care proficiently and holistically for newborns admitted to special care and high dependency nurseries. This module forms part of the neonatal pathway enabling registered nurses to become neonatal Qualified in Specialty (QIS).
150 Hours of blended learning
- delivered over 6 face to face study days at King’s Academy
- pre-module learning
- self-directed study
Depending on the Cohort you sign-up to, your face-to-face training dates are as follows.
Cohort | Start | Finish |
Semester 1 | 20 Mar ’24 | 20 Jun ’24 |
Semester 2 | 21 Jun ’24 | 22 Sep ’24 |
Semester 3 | 23 Sep ’24 | 21 Dec ’24 |
Semester 4 | 22 Dec ’24 | 19 Mar ’25 |
Please Note:
Please note that the dates above could be subject to change so please mindful these dates could change slightly.
Course Leads:
Vivette Wallen- Mitchell – Lead Nurse
vivette.wallen-mitchell@nhs.net
Petra Pasztorikova – Practice Development Nurse
Heather Weir – Charge Nurse/Sister Paediatric Education