Study Guide

Objective

Child, Adolescent and Family Nursing 5 cr lanu
Child, Adolescent and Family Nursing 4 cr
Objective
Students will learn to support and promote the well-being of families with children.
Students will
- Learn to understand the rights of children and the principles of treatment of children and adolescents
- Know how to promote patient safety in the nursing of children
- Become familiar with the development of children at different stages and know how to support and promote the growth and development of a healthy child
- Know how to support and guide families with children in questions related to parenthood and identify related resources and risk factors
- Become familiar with common diseases of children and adolescents, as well as their prevention, treatment and rehabilitation methods
- Learn to identify delays/deviations in growth and development
- Know how to adopt a critical approach to searching for, using and evaluating evidence-based knowledge and use it to develop the nursing of children and adolescents
- Know how to determine and document the care needs of a child patient, plan and administer evidence-based nursing and evaluate its effectiveness
- Be able to use health care technology in the nursing of children and adolescents
- Become proficient in the principles of clinical examination of children
- Understand the principles of advanced resuscitation of children
- Know how to guide children and families in various situations related to health and disease
- Understand the pharmacological basics of children’s medication and know how to administer pharmacotherapy and fluid therapy to children and adolescents safely and effectively
- Become familiar with the national immunisation programme for children, the vaccines and the vaccination of children and adolescents
- Know how to support the functional capacity of the developmentally disabled and disabled
- Become familiar with the main causes of developmental disability and related disorders
- Understand the special features of the nursing of the developmentally disabled and disabled at different stages of life
- Become acquainted with key legislation and the service system related to the nursing of the developmentally disabled
- Know how to help the families of disabled children cope and deal with everyday life
- Understand the status and rights of the developmentally disabled as health care customers and patients
Paediatrics and Pharmacology 1 cr
- Students will become familiar with the most common children’s diseases and their treatment

Content

Child, Adolescent and Family Nursing 5 cr lanu
Child, Adolescent and Family Nursing 4 cr
Contents
- Legislation concerning children, children’s rights and the ethical principles of the nursing of children
- Monitoring of the growth and development of a healthy child and adolescent
- Forms and methods of family nursing
- The most common surgical disorders, infectious diseases and long-term illnesses of children and adolescents, their treatment and rehabilitation in accordance with the process
- Delays/deviations in the growth and development of children and adolescents
- Current evidence-based literature related to the field
- Documentation in accordance with the nursing process
- Clinical examination of child patients and the use of various assessment methods to support care-related decision-making
- Preparation of children for procedures
- Assessment of children’s pain and pain management
- Advanced resuscitation of children
- Different guidance and education methods and the use of play in treatment
- Pharmacology of children and adolescents, various ways to administer medication, monitoring of the effectiveness of medication and guidance of pharmacological treatment
- National immunisation programme for children
- Planning, administration and evaluation of fluid therapy for children
Paediatrics and Pharmacology 1 cr
The study unit comprises 2 cr of studies offered in English
Disability and Disabled Care 1 cr
Contents
- Causes of developmental disability and related disorders
- Provision of support for the functional capacity and involvement of the developmentally disabled and disabled, as well as rehabilitation
- Special features of the nursing of the developmentally disabled and disabled
- Legislation and the service system related to the nursing of the developmentally disabled
- Provision of support for developmentally disabled and disabled children and adolescents and their families, as well as the status and rights of the developmentally disabled

Materials

Materials in Optima

Teaching methods

Lectures
Self learning: assignments (Optima) and group tasks.

Student workload

1 cr = 27 hours (student work)

Content scheduling

12.11.2019 (4h) Information of this course, instructions. Children's rights and position. Normal growth and development. Family nursing.
20.11 (2h): clinical examination of the child
21.11 (4h) Common health problems of the child
25.11 continue..
26.11 Disabled child, Pain in children
4.12 Medication.
10-11.12 Practice. Simulations.

Evaluation scale

H-5

Assessment methods and criteria

Accepted assignments
Examination