Planning
Setting Goals and Learning Objectives
Learning Objective Bank
The following bank of objectives has been developed as a sample using the seven types of objectives.
At the end of this training, each participant should be able to:
| Fact Objectives | Define Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). List the actions that first responders should take at the scene of a suspected SIDS death. Describe key information collection and documentation for suspected SIDS cases. |
| Understanding/ Comprehension Objectives | Describe important risk factors for SIDS. Discuss SIDS/stillbirth statistics and bereavement resources nationally and locally. Explain how to better handle the emergency in case an infant death occurs, including death scene investigation. Identify common responses of a family to death of an infant or child. |
| Application Objectives | Demonstrate ability to talk to children about infant death. Demonstrate ability to talk to families who have experienced a sudden and unexpected infant death/stillbirth/miscarriage. |
| Analysis Objectives | Describe how to distinguish SIDS from child abuse. Describe how to distinguish between SIDS death and stillbirth grief and mourning processes for families. |
| Synthesis Objectives | Summarize the stillbirth protocols in their hospital and registrar procedure. Plan a community-wide SIDS risk reduction awareness campaign. Summarize the responses of his/her particular community in the event of an infant death. Know what to expect from the other children in child care after an infant death. |
| Attitudinal Objectives | Demonstrate a commitment to sleep safety of infants by agreeing to develop a sleep safety policy for their child care center. Demonstrate a commitment to assisting families who have experienced a stillbirth. |
| Skill Objectives | Demonstrate how to more effectively comfort grieving families. Demonstrate ability to help himself/herself and others cope with SIDS and other infant deaths. Demonstrate knowledge of the needs of stillbirth families. |
