Study Guide

Learning objectives

The student is able to:
- explain the significance of ethical guidelines and legislation related to children’s rights and paediatric nursing as well as the significance of child orientation and culture in family nursing
- explain the course and monitoring of pregnancy, delivery and puerperium
- explain the problems caused by the most common childhood diseases and to name the most common treatments and prevention methods
- describe children’s and adolescents’ development and the factors influencing that
- apply evidence based information on children’s and adolescents’ development and the factors influencing that, on nutrition, family nursing, childhood diseases, paediatric and family nursing
- analyse children’s and adolescents’ health problems and threats as well as to plan children’s and adolescents’ care in compliance with the nursing process
- give examples of the treatment and rehabilitation of children and adolescents with disabilities
- perform drug calculations needed in children’s medical treatment and fluid therapy and to explain safe medical treatment, fluid therapy and medicine dosage
- assess his or her paediatric nursing skills and provide peer assessment in accordance with the assessment criteria

Content

- special features of paediatric and family nursing and related legislation and ethical basis
- maternal and family nursing during pregnancy, delivery and puerperium
- children’s and adolescents’ growth and development and their influence on the needs of healthy, ill and disabled children and adolescents
- children’s, adolescents’ nutrition and nutrition care
- family nursing: early interaction, the resources of the family, parents’ and siblings’ reactions to a child’s illness
- cooperation with child protection authorities and parenting support
- children’s medical treatment and fluid therapy, medicine dosage and paediatric drug calculations
- assessment of children’s and adolescents pain and fear, different pain treatment methods
- play as part of paediatric nursing
- childhood diseases

Qualifications

Nursing Assessment and Interventions, both theory and internship, Nursing Assessment and Interventions, Clinical Skills, Basics of Pharmacological Treatment, Medical Nursing theory. Theory studies of Paediatric and Family nursing and Perioperative Nursing must be ongoing according to student´s own group curriculum.