Child pathway
This clinical pathway is designed to provide students who work with children and young people with a learning framework which integrates current evidence-based health care, enabling them to keep children safe, and promote and maintain their health. It is also designed to enable students to appraise their roles and practice for the changing health care system. The other design feature of this clinical pathway is that it provides students with the opportunity to develop their critical reflection and critical thinking skills, as part of preparing them for advanced practice.
Health care practitioners from a wide range of settings and fields of practice may access the individual child pathway modules, providing opportunities for interprofessional learning and enhancing children's health and wellbeing.
Professional accreditation
Completion of the clinical pathway will enable practitioners to develop towards specialist practitioner status. The majority of practitioners who undertake this pathway will continue to work with children and young people on completion.
Subject areas
Students need to complete the clinical pathway of 60 credits from the choice listed. The aim of the pathway is to foster lifelong learning by encouraging practitioners to study a collection of modules pertinent to their learning needs rather than to study a pre-determined route which may not suit their clinical focus or personal interests.
To reflect the underpinning philosophy of safeguarding children and young people, Child Protection - Enhancing Practice is the mandatory module for the pathway. The student is then able to choose two further modules from the portfolio of child focused modules.
The choice of modules available is:
- Child - High Dependency Care
- Burn Management [child focused]
- Child - Emergency Care
- Neonatal Care
- Child - Long Term Conditions and Palliative Care
- Child Physical Assessment
- Work Based Learning Module [child focused] - 20 credits
The Burns Management module is available for accreditation within the child pathway for those Registered Nurse [child] students working within this area of practice.
There are some shared learning components within the Child - High Dependency Care and the Child - Emergency Care modules, and therefore, students may only study one of these modules within the child pathway.
Career opportunities
The child pathway is a new clinical pathway and has been designed to offer flexibility to students, to enable an educational pathway, which reflects their career pathway. As such, the child pathway is available both within the Acute Clinical Practice BSc(Hons) and the Professional Practice BSc(Hons) degrees.
Syllabus
Mandatory module:
- Child Protection - Enhancing Practice - 20 credits
Two further modules from:
- Child - High Dependency Care - 20 credits
- Burn Management [child focused] - 20 credits
- Child - Emergency Care - 20 credits
- Neonatal Care - 20 credits
- Child - Long Term Conditions and Palliative Care - 20 credits
- Child Physical Assessment - 20 credits
- Work Based Learning Module [child focused] - 20 credits
Contact
For an information pack, including application form please contact the CPE admissions team on namcpeadmissions@brighton.ac.uk or 01273 644016.
For an informal discussion contact the Pathway Leader:
Trudy Ward
01273 643536
