Introduces the role of the professional nurse as the provider of care for children (from infancy to adolescence) within the context of the family environment. Discusses how to utilize critical thinking skills in a systematic, problem solving process as a framework for providing safe and effective care to restore and promote health in children and to foster growth and development. Focuses on family-centered nursing care related to the concepts of healthy children as well as children with common, acute, or chronic illness exemplars. Also covers how to research best practices and integrate theory in the care of children and families in a variety of clinical settings. This course includes supervised clinical agency/laboratory practicums. Course comprised of two hours of theory and six hours of clinical/lab per week.
Goals, Topics, and Objectives
- Caring
- Clinical decision making
- Communication
- Culture
- Diversity
- Evidence based practice
- Health
- Illness
- Safety
- Wellness
- Cellular regulation
- Cognition
- Collaboration
- Development
- Elimination
- Ethics
- Family dynamics
- Grief
- Immunity
- Infection
- Intracranial regulation
- Legal
- Metabolism
- Oxygenation
- Patient education
- Perfusion
- Professionalism
- Stress and coping
- Violence
- Interpret and evaluate evidence based research to improve health and wellness outcomes for children, families and communities.
- Utilize effective strategies to communicate with children and their families as well as other members of the health care team.
- Apply the nursing process and standards of care to safely manage care for ill or injured children and to promote wellness and accident prevention during development.
- Recognize cultural diversity using the professional nursing values of legal, ethical and caring behaviors for the pediatric client and the effects of cultural diversity on development.
- Implement effective strategies to collaborate with other members of the health care team to provide quality care and maintain client safety, while reducing the risk of harm to the pediatric client.
- Utilize examples of critical thinking and clinical reasoning to make sound clinical judgments.
- Evaluate age appropriate developmental milestones that serve as major markers for emergence of motor, social, cognitive, and language skills.
- Explain the nurse's role in advocacy for the child and their families assisting to facilitate the family’s autonomy and full partnership in their care.
The first ten topics are core concepts reinforced across the curriculum.
Assessment and Requirements
Assessments of academic achievement may include, but are not limited to skills demonstration, written assignments, research papers, case studies, multiple choice testing and hands-on clinical practice.
Outcomes
Credit for Prior College-Level Learning
Pediatric HESI exam with score 900 or higher. Maximum number of attempts: two. Students must also perform a pediatric simulation demonstration.
Pediatric Simulation demonstration, given in department by department faculty. Faculty will assess demonstration based on evaluation rubric. Evaluation rubric and student checklist located in The School of Health and Human Services office. Student must pass the graded rubric with an 80% or higher with the maximum number of attempts: two. Students must also take an exam.