SY-423 Pediatrics, Neonatal Medicine and Paediatric Nursing 1

The course is connected to the following study programs

• Master's Programme in Advanced Practice Nursing

Teaching language

Norwegian

Course contents

Common topics

 

• Experiences and reactions to acute and / or critical illnesses

  • Communication

  • Health, stress and coping

  • Competence

• Hygiene, microbiology

• Pharmacology, pharmokinetics and pharmodynamics

• Anaesthesia

• Knowledge-based practice

• Patient positioning

• Medical and natural science topics, pathophysiology, intensive medicine and surgery in terms of

  • Circulatory physiology, circulatory problems and heart conditions

  • Lung physiology and pathophysiology, varous forms of respiratory failure

  • Nephrology and urology

  • Metabolism

  • Pain physiology and pain treatments, nausea physiology

  • PH level disturbances

  • Fluid and electrolyte disturbances

  • Diabetes/ketoacidosis

  • Orthopedics

  • Gastric surgery

  • Endocrine diseases

  • Thyreoidea, mammae

Subject-specific topics

• Paediatric nursing, responsibility and areas of competence

• General paediatric nursing

  • The healthy child, normal development, play, fundamental needs at different ages, the family and child as a unit (FCC), observations, grooming, NIDCAP, "kangaroo care", reception and transferring, follow-up, pre and post-operative nursing, sedation, sleep, documentation, youth, children in hospital, relatives, etc.

• Pathophysiology, paediatry and neo-natal medicine, and specialised paediatric nursing in terms of:

  • Circulatory physiology, circulatory problems, and heart disease

  • Lung physiology and pathophysiology, various forms of respiratory failure

    • Respiratory treatments and strategies

  • Nephrology and urology

  • Metabolism

  • Pain physiology and pain treatments

  • PH level disturbances

  • Fluid and electrolyte disturbances

  • Infectious diseases, sepsis, DIC, multiple organ failure

  • Allergies

  • Common conditions in ill newborns and children that are born too early:
    Prematurity, fetal growth and development, abnormal growth, birth trauma, icterus, asphyxia, meconium aspiration, hypoglycoma, diabetes matres

 

Further information can be found in the course booklet that is made available to students via the Canvas learning management system.

Learning outcomes

The student will:

Knowledge

• demonstrate advanced knowledge about the experiences and reactions related to acute and/or critical illness

• demonstrate advanced knowledge about communication and collaboration with patients and their relatives

• demonstrate advanced knowledge about how organs and organ systems function in relation to eachother and how pathophysiological processes and medical illness conditions arise, develop and are treated

• demonstrate advanced knowledge of current topics in hygiene, microbiology, pathophysiology, paediatrics, neo-natal medicine and surgery

• demonstrate advanced knowledge about current topics in paediatric nursing relating to preventing complications, reducing stress, and relieving suffering, pain and discomfort, as well as treatment and rehabilitation

• demonstrate advanced knowledge about family-centred nursing

Skills

• be able to analyse, show contexts and integrate medical and natural science subjects as a basis for academically justifiable paediatric nursing

• be able to find recent relevant research related to the future of the profession, as well as be able to critically evaluate and facilitate the application of this knowledge to their own work

General competence

• be able to apply prior clinical experience in order to obtain advanced knowledge in paediatrics, paediatric nursing and neo-natal nursing

Examination requirements

At least 80% attendance of compulsory classes is required.

Evaluation

The study programme manager, in consultation with the student representative, decides the method of evaluation and whether the courses will have a midterm- or end of term evaluation, see also the Quality System, section 4.1. Information about evaluation method for the course will be posted on Canvas.

Assessment methods and criteria

The examination is in two parts:

• 5 hour individual written examination (counts 60%)

• take-home examination - individual written assignment of about 3000 words (three days, counts 40%)

Both parts must be passed. A joint grade (A-F) is awarded.