Pediatric Nursing DNRS 2314

Course description:

This course designed for nursing students to help them gain a comprehensive knowledge and skills enabling them to provide effective nursing care for child and their families in either wellness or illness at the community and hospital settings. This course will emphasize the role of the student as a health educator and a health promoter by understanding and applying nursing process in the field of maternal/child nursing care while stressing on holistic approach and family centered care to achieve a high quality care.

Course Aims:

The course aims to:
• Integrate knowledge of primary health care initiatives in providing nursing care to children and adolescents
• Optimize the role of the student in providing care for children, adolescent, and their families.
• Analyze common children health problems using nursing process and preventive management as a model of care.

Course outcomes:

Upon completion of this course, student will be able to:
• List measures for health preventions and health maintenance of infants and children
• Identify the stages of growth and development in the pediatric client.
• Comprehend the essential deviations from normalcy during children from birth through adolescence.
• Describe different health problems related to neonates, infants, and children at different pediatric settings.
• Identify nursing care, treatment, medication, and diet therapy of the pediatric client.
• Establish short term and long term plan of care based on identified need/ problems of the child from birth through adolescence with health problems.