Advanced Studies in Child, Adolescent and Family Nursing (5cr)
Course unit code: TH00BU95
General information
- Credits
 - 5 cr
 
Objective
ADVANCED STUDIES IN CHILD, ADOLESCENT AND FAMILY 
NURSING 5 ECTS LAPSY
Objectives
Students will learn to use evidence-based knowledge when providing demanding nursing of children and adolescents. 
Students will
•	Deepen their competence in the clinical examination of child patients 
•	Enhance their professional competence in the acute nursing of children and adolescents and of long-term child patients. 
•	Learn to guide and support children and their families in the nursing of a critically ill and dying child 
•	Learn to recognise the special features of nursing of sick neonatal and premature infants 
•	Deepen their competence in the nursing of surgical child patients 
•	Deepen their competence in the mental health nursing of children and adolescents and know how to support children and families by means of nursing methods  
•	 Deepen their competence in the pharmacotherapy and fluid therapy of children and adolescents
•	Learn to assess their activities in the work community and their professional development in the context of nursing of children and adolescents
                    
Content
Contents
•	Clinical examination and observation of child patients and the use of examination results to support care-related decision-making
•	Demanding health problems and disorders of children and adolescents: 
•	Acute nursing of children and adolescents
•	Nursing of sick neonatal or premature infants
•	Nursing of children and adolescents with a heart condition
•	Nursing of children and adolescents with cancer  
•	Treatment of children and adolescents with neurological health problems
•	Intensive care nursing of children and adolescents
•	Demanding surgical nursing of children and adolescents
•	Nursing of critically ill and dying children
•	Nursing of children and adolescents with mental health problems
•	Family nursing in demanding cases of sick children
•	Demanding pharmacology and fluid therapy of children and adolescents
•	Self-assessment of work and professional development in the context of nursing of children and adolescents