Universitat Internacional de Catalunya

Advanced Paediatric Nursing

Advanced Paediatric Nursing
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14009
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First semester
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Module MINORS (Choose one minor)
Advanced Clinical Care
Main language of instruction: Catalan

Other languages of instruction: English, Spanish,

Teaching staff


Friday from 10 am to 11 am, by appointment via email: rmir@uic.es.

 

Introduction

The Advanced Pediatric Nursing subject consolidates the pediatric contents taught during previous undergraduate courses, delving into concepts and serious or infrequent pathological processes, as well as advanced or specific medical-surgical techniques. Likewise, it provides advanced tools for the management of nursing care in the physiological and pathological process of all stages of pediatric age.

Pre-course requirements

The review of anatomical-physiological and pathophysiological knowledge of the different systems of the human body is required during all stages of pediatric age. Likewise, knowledge of pharmacology, dosage and routes of administration.

The Department of Nursing in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences has agreed that it is compulsory for all students taking a Bachelor's degree in Nursing, when participating in online classes, to turn on their camera and remain visible to lecturers and professors at all times.If there are students in self-isolation due to the COVID-19 health and safety measures, who cannot physically attend class at the University like their peers, teaching staff will carry out online teaching during this isolation period only so that the student(s) in question can attend their classes online. The rest of the students will have to attend their classes in person in the classroom.  

Objectives

  1. Know how to carry out a specific assessment of the signs, symptoms and problems of specific processes in the pediatric field and establish healthcare priorities. 
  2. Learn up-to-date knowledge of these processes, which, because they are especially serious or less frequent, require more specific attention and care. 
  3. Deepening family-centered nursing care as a key strategy to facilitate the adaptation of the newborn to the extrauterine environment and its development throughout the different stages of pediatric age. 
  4. Address the safety of the pediatric patient, minimizing healthcare risks.

Competences/Learning outcomes of the degree programme

  • 11. E - Establish effective communication with patients, families, social groups and partners and promote health education.
  • 17. E - Perform nursing care based on comprehensive health care, which involves multidisciplinary cooperation, integration of processes and continuity of care.
  • 19. B - Ability to make decisions based on critical thinking and reflective practice.
  • 23. B - Ability to analyze and synthesize.
  • 24. G - Ability to work autonomously.
  • 27. G - Ability to adapt to new situations.
  • 2. E - Plan and provide nursing care for individuals or groups, taking health outcomes into account and their impact, through guidelines for clinical practice and care, which describe the four processes by which a health problem is diagnosed or treated.
  • 6. E - Base nursing care on scientific evidence and available resources.
  • 7. B - Understand people without prejudice, considering their physical, psychological and social aspects, as autonomous and independent individuals, ensuring respect for their opinions, beliefs and values, ensuring their right to privacy through confidentiality and professional secrecy.
  • 9. E - Promote healthy lifestyles, self-care, as well as the maintenance of therapeutic and preventive behaviors.

Learning outcomes of the subject

  • -Recognize symptoms and signs of specific pathologies from the different stages of pediatric age, through exploration and diagnostic tests.
  • -Prioritize the care needs in each clinical situation of the pediatric patient.
  • -Identify complications of these clinical situations and act appropriately in the face of a problem or complication.
  • -Have acquired the appropriate knowledge in therapeutic, pharmacological, physical and surgical guidelines.
  • -Acquire the necessary knowledge to give a quality group health education in the different disease processes that can be given.
  • -Know the most serious and least prevalent diseases.
  • -Know and acquire the skills to carry out different specific pediatric nursing procedures.

Syllabus

  • - Pharmacology:
  • * Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics in pediatrics.
  • * Main drugs used in pediatrics according to age and pathology.
  • * Advanced management of calculation, preparation and administration of pediatric medication.
  • - The pathological neonate and extreme situations of prematurity.
  • - Family Centered Care: 
  • * Effective communication and humanization of pediatric care.
  • * Newborn Individualized Developmental Care and Assessment Program (NIDCAP Program).
  • - Nursing care in the Pediatric Emergency service.
  • - Nursing care in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.
  • - Nursing Care in a Pediatric Emergency.
  • - Nursing leadership in Pediatric Patient Safety.
  • - Pediatric digestive pathology.
  • - Pediatric respiratory pathology.
  • - Chronicity in Pediatrics:
  • * Mental Health in Pediatrics.
  • * Pediatric allergology.
  • * Pediatric endocrinology.

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