Nursing of Children and Young People (5 ECTS)

Objective

Students
- understand the ethical, pedagogical and methodological standpoint of patient education
- can plan, implement and evaluate patient education in a family-oriented way in cooperation with other experts
- understand the significance of illness and various care environments to a child, a young person and his/her family and are able to support and promote the health and wellbeing of families with children
- can plan, implement and evaluate the nursing of children and young persons bearing in mind the principles of nursing and ethical questions related to their care

Content

- ethical, pedagogical and methodological standpoint of patient education
- principles of nursing and ethics in nursing of children and young persons
- development and growth of children and young persons
- supporting the child, young person and families as well as the patient education process in nursing care
- principal methods for nursing of children and young persons
- the family-oriented nursing process of children and young persons with acute or long-term illnesses
- key questions related to nursing of children and young persons and the most common illnesses of children and young persons

Location and time

Myllypuro Campus, Myllypurontie 1

Materials

Learning material in Moodle
Wong´s et al Essentials of Pediatic Nursing
The Material provided by the teacher, i.e. Current Care Guidelines (Duodecim)

Teaching methods

Flipped learning
Mode of delivery face-to-face
Interactive lecture
Cooperative learning, Small groupwork
Guided assigments
Virtual learning
Independent study
Preclinicals

Employer connections

Dosage calculation need to be passed before clinical practice

Exam schedules

The course exam December 17th 2021 12.45 pm
Retakes February 22nd 2022 and April 26th 2022
Dosage exam will be announced at orientation

International connections

N/A

Completion alternatives

N/A

Student workload

1cr= 27 h
100h includes Contact teaching,Independent study, guidence and Proficiency tests.

Content scheduling

More information in Moodle.

Further information

The student must have knowledge of the basics of pharmacotherapy and nursing of an internal medicine patient. It is recommended that the course be studied in the second semester at the earliest.

Attendance:
Compulsory participation in orientation, preclinicals, simulation. Theory teaching is highly preferred.

Additional information:
Earlier studies can be replaced (recognition of prior learning, AHOT) by contacting the tutor teacher. Decision need to be completed one month before the course.

Accepted decision of longer time in an exam need to be informed for the contact teacher before the start of the course.
The course consists:

ethical, pedagogical and methodological standpoint of patient education

principles of nursing and ethics in nursing of children and young persons

development and growth of children and young persons

supporting the child, young person and families as well as the patient education process in nursing care

principal methods for nursing of children and young persons

the family-oriented nursing process of children and young persons with acute or long-term illnesses

key questions related to nursing of children and young persons and the most common illnesses of children and young persons ?

Evaluation scale

0-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

See the attachment "Framework for evaluation criteria of competence"

Assessment methods and criteria

Dosage Calculation pass/fail
Independent assignments pass/fail
Small group work pass/fail
Preclinicals pass/fail
Exam 0-5

Qualifications

Medical Nursing Competence.
Surgical nursing Competence.