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Advanced Studies in Child, Adolescent and Family Nursing (5 cr)

Code: 7031503-3008

General information


Enrollment

02.07.2020 - 04.09.2020

Timing

24.08.2020 - 29.09.2020

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Virtual portion

4 op

Mode of delivery

20 % Contact teaching, 80 % Distance learning

Unit

Health and Well-being

Campus

Salo IoT Campus

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Seats

8 - 30

Degree programmes

  • Degree Programme in Nursing

Teachers

  • Päivi Matikainen

Groups

  • PSHSS18A
  • PSHSS18B

Objective

Advanced Studies in Child, Adolescent and Family Nursing 5 cr 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
- Learn to recognise the most common mental health disorders of children and adolescents and support children and their families using 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
- Identification and treatment path of abused children
- 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

Evaluation scale

H-5