N232 – Nursing Care of Children
Prerequisite: N204
Course Description:
This course deals with advanced processes and practices of child health care, integrating physiologic and psychologic approaches. Specifically, the course discusses various topics on health promotion and disease prevention and management of children with alterations in health status from infancy to adolescence. It includes discussion of contemporary pediatric issues and concerns and its implications to nursing practice.
Course Objectives:
The course aims to provide current knowledge and advanced skills necessary for a nurse practitioner/researcher/educator to promote and maintain health and manage alterations in health of children from infancy to adolescence.
By the end of the semester, you will be able to:
- Synthesize important concepts, interventions, and outcomes in the care of children,
- Analyze status and advances in care of normal and high-risk children,
- Demonstrate expertise in assessment of children and in utilizing the nursing process,
- Analyze researches on nursing care of children and
- Identify opportunities for autonomy, innovation and leadership in childcare.
Course Outline:
UNIT I – Health Promotion in Children
Topic 1. Growth and Development: Theories and Principles
Topic 2. The Child as a Family Member
Topic 3. Child Health Assessment
Topic 4. Promoting Child Health from Infancy to Adolescence
UNIT II – Management of Children with Alterations in Health Status
Topic 5. Illness, Hospitalization and Dying: Their Psychosocial Impact on Children
Topic 6. Helping a Child Maintain Self-Concept while Coping with an Altered Health Status
Topic 7. Common Health Problems in Children: Alterations in Oxygenation
Topic 8. Common Health Problems in Children: Alterations in Fluids and Electrolytes
Topic 9. Common Health Problems in Children: Alterations in Perception and Coordination
Topic 10. Common Health Problems in Children: Alterations in Protective Mechanism
Topic 11. Common Health Problems in Children: Alterations in Nutrition and Metabolism
UNIT III – Contemporary Pediatric Issues and Concerns
Topic 12. Child Abuse
Topic 13. Adolescent Pregnancy
Topic 14. Child Labor
Topic 15. Street Children
Topic 16. Children in Armed Conflict
Topic 17. Researches in the Care of Children
Clinical Practicum: 24 hours