Critical Reflection on the Role of a Student Nurse in Managing Complex Paediatric Conditions CHN701

Level 7 Assignment Guidelines FINAL

Critically reflect on your role as a student nurse in the care of a baby, child, or young person with a complex or long-term condition.

• Formative reflection plan; maximum 500 words


• Submission date: 24^th February 2025 before midday


• Feedback: 10^th March 2025

• 3000 words summative submission


• Before midday on 14^th April 2025


• Grade release - 15^th May 2025

Remember that your reflection must address the module learning outcomes (LOs) below;

1. Critically reflect and synthesise on the leadership role of the childrens nurse in the management of complex and / or long-term health conditions


2. Demonstrate a deep and systematic understanding of effective communication and decision-making skills in the management of complex situations to co-ordinate care between different professional agencies and services


3. Appraise and evaluate relevant contemporary child health policy and management of risk to display mastery of managing the care of children and young people


4. Use a high level of abstraction to critically appraise the evidence base relating to complex therapeutic interventions that can be used to improve the wellbeing of children and young people with complex needs.

Ensure that you also review the content of the level 7 assignment rubric

Students are aware that within their critical reflections they need to have:

• met all the module learning outcomes;


• written a reflection and not just a case study


• for context, outlined a scenario from practice, maintaining confidentiality at all times, upon which the reflection is based


• identified & used a model of reflection as a framework for the critical reflection;


• Discussed all content at level 7.


• considered the needs of the baby, child or young person, and their family throughout.

You will have undertaken activities on defining complexity and will have been given lots of examples of what constitutes complex.