Study Guide

Learning objectives

The student is able to
- apply the ethical guidelines and legislation related to children’s rights and paediatric nursing
- consider child orientation and the cultural aspect in his or her nursing work
- apply evidence-based information on children’s and adolescents’ growth and development, the factors influencing them and on family nursing and childhood diseases
- 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
- care for children and adolescents and mentor the patient and the family
- perform the required calculations for paediatric medical treatment and fluid therapy and dose the medication and provide medical treatment and fluid therapy safely under guidance
- provide resource-oriented family nursing care
- assess and develop his or her paediatric nursing skills in accordance with the course assessment criteria
- work in teams and assume responsibility for his or her work

Content

- play and creativity as part of paediatric nursing (skills workshops)
- children’s acute cases and resuscitation of infants and toddlers (skills workshops)
- primary care for new-born babies and infants (skills workshops)
- parenting support (skills workshops)
- special features of paediatric nursing and related legislation and ethical basis
- children’s and adolescents’ growth and development and their impact on the needs of the children and adolescents
- children’s and adolescents’ nutrition
- family nursing: parents’ and siblings’ reactions to a child’s illness, the resources of the family
- 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
- different paediatric nursing practices, resuscitation of an infant and a toddler
- multi-professionalism and team work

Further information

Possible travel and/or housing expenses

Qualifications

Before the clinical internship begins:
Nursing Assessment and Interventions, both theory and internship, Nursing Assessment and Interventions, Clinical Skills, Basics of Pharmacological Treatment, Medical Nursing theory. Either Internship: Medical Nursing OR Internship: Perioperative Nursing must be completed. Theory studies of Perioperative Nursing must be ongoing according to student´s own group curriculum. Theory course of Paediatric and Family Nursing must be passed apart from the drug calculations. However, student must have participated Paediatric Nursing drug calculation test. Additionally, skills workshops of Paediatric and Family Nursing Practice course must be completed.