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Deepening Expertice of Pediatric and Adolescent Nursing

Structure Type: Study unit
Code: SH00BC50
Curriculum: SH 2023
Level: Bachelor of Nursing
Year of Study: 4 (2026-2027)
Semester: Autumn
Credits: 5 cr
Responsible Teacher: Honkaniemi, Teija
Language of Instruction: Finnish

Taking the course in advance? See the courses during the academic year 2024-2025.

Learning Outcomes

Students expand and deepen their knowledge of children and young people caring. Students are able to act as an expert nursing care in multidisciplinary health and social care communities by influencing and promoting children's and adolescents' health-care management and disease development. Students will deepen their knowledge and skills in children, adolescents and their families in a variety of health and life changes related to the disease.

Student's Workload

Student's Workload 135h

Prerequisites / Recommended Optional Courses

All Basic and professional studies

Contents

Healthy child and adolescent growth and development as well as supporting partners. The child and adolescent nursing helper, supervisory and teaching methods. Special skills of child patient management process. An expert in growing children and young people in care, parental support and guidance as well as multi-professional team. Children and young people with the central surgical and internal medicine, nursing, and the methods to be suffering from infectious diseases in children or adolescents. Special skills of children and adolescents under intensive care. Identify the different methods of nursing mentally retarded children and young people in care.Deepening knowledge of Pediatric and Adolescent Nursing 5cr. Intensive Care Nursing. Pediatric and Neonatalog.

Recommended or Required Reading and Other Learning Resources/Tools

Recommended or Required Reading and Other Learning Resources/Tools
Storvik- Sydänmaa S, Tervajärvi L & Hammar AM. 2019. Lasten ja nuorten hoitotyö. Pro sanoma Oy. Lisäksi opettajan esittämät muut materiaalit.
Pikkukeskosen hoitotyö TAYS julkaisu

Mode of Delivery / Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures, group work, exercises. Autonomous studies.

Assessment Criteria

Level 5.
Student is able to
- assess children and young people caring needs and support
- plan and implement the patient's overall nursing
- apply a variety of nursing methods for patient care situation
- advise, guide and support patients and their relatives in various situations
Level 3.
Student is able to:
- identify children and young people caring needs and support
- plan and implement the patient's overall care
- use the main methods of patient care situation
- advise, guide and support patients and their relatives
Level 1.
Student is able to:
- describe the children and young people caring needs and support
- plan and implement the main principles of the patient's overall care
- describe the key methods of nursing in patient care situation
- identify as a team member the patient and relatives needs of guidance and to support them

Assessment Methods

Exam. Participation in the superviced execises. Medicin calculation whitout any mistakes.
Numerical evaluation (0-5).
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