Nursing Care for Children and Families with Child Health Problems
Code: 101773 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2500891 Nursing | OT | 4 | 2 |
Contact
- Name:
- Juan Oso Moran
- Email:
- juan.deloso@uab.cat
Use of Languages
- Principal working language:
- catalan (cat)
- Some groups entirely in English:
- No
- Some groups entirely in Catalan:
- Yes
- Some groups entirely in Spanish:
- No
Teachers
- Carolina Watson Badia
Prerequisites
There are no official prerequisites.
However, it would be recommended to review the competences worked in nursing subjects of the boy, the teenager and the woman.
Objectives and Contextualisation
The subject is programmed in the fourth year of the Nursing Degree and is part of the group of subjects of the Nursing Degree mention Childhood and health, of optional training. It constitutes, therefore, part of the scientific basis necessary for the formation of the nursing graduate.
GENERAL OBJECTIVES
The study of the child from the moment of birth until adolescence, with emphasis on the development of the child and the adolescent in situations of illness.
To apply the main nursing tools that contribute to the improvement of the nurse practice in specialized care.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
To plan the care process for the people attended, following one of the models of human needs. CRITERION: It must apply the stages of the care process.
To describe different models of health education most used in the field of health. CRITERION: It must be necessary to identify the objective that you want to achieve from the differents models.
To select the most appropriate care plans that allow to intervene on the stress of the child and the family in the face of illness and hospitalization. CRITERION: It must be based on evidence because they are considered the most appropriate.
To analyze the concept of palliative cures from a nursing model. CRITERION: It is necessary to identify the actions that help to guarantee comfort, well-being and quality of life.
To analyze the interventions proposed in the care plan. CRITERION: You must justify your membership with the selected care model.
To select the most appropriate interventions to address the health problems that children from 0 to 18 years old present. CRITERION: It is necessary to justify with evidence the nursing interventions in each of them.
To analyze care about the stress of the child and the family in the face of illness and hospitalization. CRITERION: It is necessary to identify and justify with evidence the actions that guarantee the stabilizationof the situation and the prevention of complications.
The subject is programmed in the fourth year of the Degree in Nursing and forms part of the group of subjects of the mention Childhood and Health, of optional training. It is, therefore, part of the scientific basis necessary for the training of the nursing graduate.
Competences
- Base nursing interventions on scientific evidence and the available media.
- Express in a fluent, coherent and appropriate manner the established rules, both orally and in writing.
- Identify, analyse and choose the most suitable option to respond efficiently and effectively to problems in the professional context.
- Offer technical and professional health care and that this adequate for the health needs of the person being attended, in accordance with the current state of scientific knowledge at any time and levels of quality and safety established under the applicable legal and deontological rules.
- Plan and carry out nursing care aimed at people, families and groups orientated to health results and evaluate the impact of them using clinical and care practice guides describing the processes for the diagnosis, treatment or cure of a health problem.
Learning Outcomes
- Applying the nursing methodology in professional care as health needs child.
- Defend nursing actions in infant health in original articles and/or expert contributions.
- Describe the nursing actions to accompany the family as a basic unit of infant health.
- Express in a fluent, coherent and appropriate manner the established rules, both orally and in writing.
- Identify, analyze and make the right choice paragraphs to address problems professionally, efficiently and effectively.
- Plan nursing care aimed at infancy and the family.
Content
CONTENTS
Theory
- Nursing care in the newborn.
- Carry out nursing care for the premature and high-risk newborn and their family.
- Care for the hospitalized child and his family.
- Communication and emotional support to the hospitalized child and his family.
- Respiratory pathology in the child.
- Digestive pathology in the child.
- Nephrological pathology in the child.
- Neurological pathology in the child.
- Pediatric surgery Oncohematological pathology in children and adolescents.
- Pain care in pediatrics.
- Pediatric palliative care.
Practical skills
- NIDCAP (Neonatal Individualized Developmental Care and Assessment Program).
- Circuit techniques.
- Gastric button; gastrostomy tube; CPR, CPAP & BPAP; central catheters; PL in the newborn.
- Communication and emotional management in the care of the child and his family.
- Administration of medication.
Clinical cases
- Hyaline membrane disease
- Necrotizing enterocolitis
- Congenital heart disease
- Heart transplant
- Bacterial meningitis
- Chronic renal insufficiency
- Abdominal withdrawal syndrome
- Acute bronchiolitis in the infant
Methodology
Expositive classes in order to explain the most current evidence, clarify doubts and relate concepts where students have a greater difficulty.
Group presentations: presentation and presentation of a clinical situation of pediatric nursing in the field of the childhood, adolescence in the context of of childhood and adolescence in hospitalization for critical illness, newborns and other health problems prevalent in childhood and / or in a clinical situation of pediatric nursing.
Laboratory practices: in order to carry out certain procedures and apply the necessary nursing care to care for children admitted to pediatric units.
Individualized tutorials: specific tutorials can be specified by contacting them by email with the teacher via email.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Activities
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| LABORATORY PRACTICES (PLAB) | 15 | 0.6 | 1, 3, 6 |
| THEORY | 36 | 1.44 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| PREPARATION OF WRITTEN WORKS/SELF STUDY/READING ARTICLES/REPORTS OF INTEREST | 91 | 3.64 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
Assessment
According to the modifications approved by agreement of the Governing Council of July 12, 2017 in Title IV of the academic regulations RD 1393/2007:
The evaluation system is organized into 3 evaluative activities distributed through the course, none of them has a weigh over than 50% of the final grade:
Completion and presentation of a case studies of pediatric nursing (30%).
This will be done in a group. The evaluation process will be throughout of 2 formative assessment rubrics: a written presentation rubric and one rubric of oral defense of written work.
The clinical case will be presented by 2 students from each group and the rest of the group's students they will answer the questions asked by the rest of the class students and the teacher.
Students will have available the formative assessment rubrics of the subject in the Moodle before to be assigned the work groups and the clinical cases.
Written evaluation (50%)
Purpose:This test allows us to assess the ability to apply knowledge and skills in caring for children hospitalized, organize and integrate ideas and information and develop a discourse of their own.
Type of test:
- questions test (selection items).
This test requires ability to develop a discourse of its own and not only know how to apply information.
Laboratory practices (PLABs) (20%).
Preliminary preparation, assistance, attitude and participation of students, as well as preparation of support annotations will be evaluated. It will be evaluated through a formative evaluation rubrics.
Students will have available the rubric of the subject in the Moodle before starting the curs.
MARKS:
Merit (EX). The student has achieved the competencies evaluated and carried out independently doing its justifications with evidences.
Good (N). The student has attained the competencies evaluated and carries out them autonomously with some evidences.
Pass (AP). The student can achieve supervised evaluation skills.
Fail (SS). The student has not achieved the competencies evaluated.
1.- The requirement to obtain the final grade through continuous evaluation is to have been submitted to all the parts evaluated and have them passed by a mark of 5 or higher.
2.- It will be considered not evaluable through continuous evaluation to the student who has been missing more than one laboratory practice. To facilitate assistance to the PLABs, a document of group exchange of laboratory practices (exchange with a colleague from another group) and one spot laboratory practice permute document will be provided.
3. To participate in the recovery process the student must have been previously evaluated in a set of activities whose weight equals to a minimum of two thirds of the total rating of the subject. To participate in the recovery process the student must have obtained a qualification minimum of 3.5 in the average of the subject. The PLABs, because of their eminently practical nature, do not they are recoverable.
4.- The final grade of the subject will be the weighted average of the different parts that configure it.
Grade F = Fail
Grade E = Pass
Grade B = Good
Grade A = Merit
Grade A+ = Honour distinction (will be awarded to those students who have obtained the best grades totals greater than or equal to 9, within the cup of 5% of students enrolled in the subject).
5.- The student has the right to review the evaluation tests. For this purpose, the revision dates will be specified once the provisional qualifications have been transferred and published to the academic record ofstudents. The revision data will be published in Moodle in the following week inthe publication of qualifications provisional. A link to Doodle will be provided to the students to schedule the time of the review.
6.- The valuation of special and particular situations will be valued by a set evaluation committee to that effect.
Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Attendance and active participation in class and seminars | 20% | 1 | 0.04 | 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 |
| Oral assessments: structured test/Evaluation through case studies and problem solving | 30% | 4 | 0.16 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
| Written evaluation:objective test | 50% | 3 | 0.12 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
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