Nursing of Children and Young People (5 ECTS)

Learning outcomes

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

Prerequisites

Medical Nursing Competence.
Surgical nursing Competence.

Teaching methods

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

Location and time

Myllypuro Campus, Myllypurontie 1

Learning materials and recommended literature

Litterature:

James Nelson -Ashwill 2013 (or updated): Nursing Care of Children Principles & Practice. Elsevier
or
Wong's: Essentials of pediatric nursing 9th edition (or updated):


Materials and links in Moodle

The Material provided by the teacher, i.e. Current Care Guidelines (Duodecim)

Alternative completion methods of implementation

N/A

Internship and working life connections

Dosage calculation need to be passed before clinical practice.

Exam dates and retake possibilities

(Proficiency test as an exam. Please, look at the schedule) Not in spring 2022.
More information will be told in the beginning of the course.

International connections

N/A

Student workload

1cr= 27 h
135 h, including contact teaching, Independent study, guidance and Proficiency tests.

Content scheduling

More information in Moodle.

Further information for students

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.

Assessment methods and criteria

Dosage Calculation pass/fail
Independent assignments pass/fail
Small group work pass/fail
Preclinicals pass/fail
Simulation pass/fail
Proficiency test pass/fail (not 2022)
Exams 0-5

Evaluation scale

0-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

See the attachment "Framework for evaluation criteria of competence"