This module is based at Cambridge University Hospital.

All professionals involved in the acute care of children and young people should have a robust understanding of the signs that a child is critically ill, be able to recognise when they are deteriorating and be able to initiate strategies that will help stabilise their clinical condition.

Building on previous experience, this module has been designed to equip professionals with the knowledge and skills adopting a clinical reasoning approach to deliver High Dependency level care to children and young people with the aim of obtaining clinical stabilisation. If this is not possible to stabilise the patient’s condition sufficiently to allow for a safe transfer to an intensive care unit.

Aims

The module aims to:

• Provide the student with applied theoretical knowledge, decision making skills and core practical clinical skills to initiate competent, evidence-based care of the neonate in a special care environment.
• Develop students’ ability to appraise the key contextual factors which impact on the preterm and/or sick new-born infant in the antenatal, intra-partum and post-natal period and the possible consequences at each stage.
• Support the critical application and evaluation of information when undertaking a systems-based approach when assessing and managing the sick neonate requiring special care.

This module can contribute to the following programme(s)

5932: PgCert Contemporary Foundations in Neonatal Practice (Cambridge University Hospital NHS Trust) (PT)