HEAAN6608 Specialty Paediatric Nursing Practice
This unit is designed to build on the student's theoretical and practical knowledge and skills for acute paediatric healthcare. This unit enables students to examine paediatric nursing practice from the perspective of a strengths-based framework. The focus of the unit is children's health, based on an in-depth understanding of normal anatomy and physiology, growth, and development. This will prepare students for paediatric nursing assessment, family centered care, important psychomotor skills for health assessment, pre-hospitalisation planning and care, discharge planning, frameworks for safe practice, professional responsibilities, scope of practice, and working in a multidisciplinary team. Within this unit essential elements of effective child-centered, and family-centered culturally sensitive care, including communication, strategies for decision-making, problem solving, clinical reasoning, critical thinking, and reflective practice will be explored. Students will develop an understanding of multidisciplinary care and collaborative practice in the management of unwell children in paediatric settings. There will be an opportunity to explore paediatric nursing practice through therapeutic interactions with the child, family, and multidisciplinary team, nursing assessment, planning, implementing, and evaluating care.
Commonwealth supported place (CSP)
A CSP is subsidised by the Australian Government and students pay a contribution amount. Each unit is classified into a band, depending on the study area of the unit (this discipline may be different from the study area of your course).
2026 contribution amount* $1,185
2026 grandfathered contribution amount^ $1,185
