Objectives and competences
Students will:
• Learn about nursing care of healthy and sick children and role of a nurse in the process of paediatric treatment.
• Acquire knowledge of evidence based nursing interventions and diagnostic therapevtic procedures in children and adolescence nursing care.
• Deepens knowledge on analysis and planning of the needs in paediatrics nursing care for individuals and groups.
• Improve skills for successful therapeutic communication with children, parents and members of health and nursing team.
• Acquire knowledge for seeking creative solutions for nursing problems in the process of nursing care.
Content (Syllabus outline)
Lectures
• Paediatric nursing care and application of the theoretical model.
• Child and family centred nursing care.
• Evidence based paediatric nursing care.
• Application of the process of nursing care on individual basic life activities of conceptual model of V. Henderson.
• Nursing care of paediatric patients by stage development .
• Nursing care for premature baby.
• Nursing care for ill paediatric patients.
• Nursing care for child in pain.
• Nutrition of child with the emphasis on the infant period.
• Child safety in implementation of diagnostics procedures.
• Child safety in implementation of therapeutic procedures.
• Neonathology.
• Genetics in pediatrics.
• Growth and development of children.
• Child nutrition.
• Nephrology/endocrinology.
• Cardiology/rheumatology.
• Pulmology/allergology.
• Pediatric emergencies.
• Gastroenterology.
• Paedopsychiatry/neurology.
• Social Pediatrics.
• Poisoning and injuries.
Seminars
• Preparing students for education in a simulated clinical environment.
• Documentation in childhood and adolescence nursing care.
Laboratory work
• Safety and caring in procedures for nursing in child and adolescent nursing care in simulated clinical environment.
• Safety and caring in diagnostic interventions in the medical treatment of children and adolescents.
• Safety and caring in therapeutic interventions in the medical treatment of children and adolescents - preparation and medication administration.
• Other interventions in child and adolescent nursing care.
• The importance and role of a nurse in the implementation of diagnostic and therapeutic interventions as an equal member of the healthcare team.
• Including parents in the medical treatment of children and adolescents.
Learning and teaching methods
• Lectures, explanation, demonstration.
• Seminars,individual work, work with texts, group work, case study.
• Laboratorij work:,in simulatation clinical environment, practical work activities, explanations.
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
The student will be able to:
• perform holistic and individual child and family centre healthcare,
• develop therapeutic communication and caring human relations – caring for child and family,
• perform diagnostic, therapeutic, and other nursing interventions in the field of paediatrics nursing care based on ethical principles,
• recognize, assess and respond appropriately to emergency conditions in children,
• search, analyse, interpret literature for development of case study,
• specify the most common pediatric diseases, their clinical characteristics, and diagnostic procedures.
Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes
• Critical literature review and searching for evidence to support safe nursing process of the child,
• use modern technology in paediatrics,
• perform diagnostic and therapeutic interventions and nursing procedures,
• reporting (oral and written),
• identification and solving problems,
• critical analysis, synthesis, response on the literature for evidence base in practice,
• leading and working in teamwork.
Readings
Obvezna:
• Ciril Kržišnik s sodelavci: Pediatrija, DZS l. 2014.
• Muscari, M. (2016). Pediatrics nursing. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 5th ed.
• Pajnkihar, M. et al. (2016). Zdravstvena nega otroka in mladostnika s pediatrijo: zbrano učno gradivo. Maribor: Univerza v Mariboru, Fakulteta za zdravstvene vede.
Priporočena: Aktualni članki pediatrične zdravstvene nege, pediatrije in EBN
• Felc, Z. (2008). Osnove neonatologije. Maribor: UM Fakulteta za zdravstvene vede.
• Grosek, M., Lučovnik., M, Smrkolj, Š (2022)(ur). Oskrba ploda med porodom in novorojenčka v porodnišnici. Univerza v Ljubljani, Medicinska fakulteta.
• Padmaja, A(2014). Pediatric nursing procedure manual. New Delhi [etc.] : Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) LTD.
• Hockenberry, MJ., Wilson, D (2019). Wong's Nursing Care of Infants and Children, 11th edit. London: Elsevier.
• Verklan, M. T. (2010). Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing. St.Louis: Saunders.
Prerequisits
Prerequisits for labs clinical work in simulated clinical environment : pozitive grade from seminar work and case study.
Additional information on implementation and assessment Computer based exam.
Case study
Clinical work in the clinical simulation environment, practical and theoretical colloquium:
- nursing care procedures
- diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.
A condition for positive grade is 55 % in computer exam.
