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 (2024). 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 laboratory work in simulated clinical environment : pozitive grade from seminar work and case study.
The implementation of the learning unit includes recording nursing activities for the purpose of promoting critical thinking, reflection and problem solving.
Additional information on implementation and assessment Written exam.
Case study
Laboratory work
Assessment of laboratory work in a simulated clinical environment includes
- Assessment of practical and theoretical knowledge (nursing procedures and diagnostic and therapeutic interventions).
Performance on the course is based on a minimum of 55% in the written examination.
Each part of the mark must be passed (6).
