ECTS credits ECTS credits: 4.5
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Hours of tutorials: 2.25 Expository Class: 18 Interactive Classroom: 18 Total: 38.25
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Psychiatry, Radiology, Public Health, Nursing and Medicine
Areas: Nursing
Center Faculty of Nursing
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
To know the teorethical bases and practical principles of nurse care for children in all the stages of their development, from conception to adolescence.
To acquire basic knwoledge for prevention, detection and nurse care of the most prevalent pediatric diseases.
To be able of recognize the care needs of health and sick children, of knowing the warning signs of bio-psico-psocial illness and to be able of performing health education actions addressed to children and their families.
Modules and items
1. The healthy child
1.1. Normal newborn and child
1.2. Prevention of adult's diseases from childhood. The health child program
2. Normal and abnormal develpment
2.1. Physical growing and development
2.2. Psychomotor develpment. Warning signs
3. Prenatal diseases
3.1. Genetic disturbances
3.2. Antenatal infections and toxics during pregnancy
4. Care of the normal and sick newborn
4.1. Prematurity and postmaturity
4.2. Congenital malformations
4.3. Main disturbances of newborns
5. Nutrition from birth to adolescence
5.1. Breast feeding
5.2. Infant nutrition
5.3. Preschool and schoolchilren nutrition
5.4. Nutrition during adolescence
6. Care of pediatric infections
6.1. Immuneprophylaxis. Vacination schedule
6.2. The child with fever. Febrile seizures
6.3. Exantematic diseases
6.4. Sepsis and meningitis
6.5. Respiratory infections
6.6. Acute gastroenteritis. Dehidration
6.7. Urinary tract infection. Urological diseases
6.8. Other infections and parasitic diseases
7. Pediatric urgencies and emergencies
7.1. Injury prevention
7.2. Severity assessment and triage in Pediatrics
7.3. Cardiopulmonary arrest and resuscitation
7.4. Main pediatric emergencies
7.5. Pain in children. Analgesia and sedation
8. Nursery in psychosocial pediatrics
8.1. Child abuse. Prevention and detection
8.2. The child and his environment: family, school and society
8.3. Ethical aspects of child and family care
8.4. Child and youth mental health
9. Other prevalent disorders in childhood
9.1. Digestive disorders
9.2. Respiratory and ENL disorders
9.3. The child with cancer or hematological disorders
9.4. Neurological disorders
9.5. Misceláneous
Tratado de Enfermería de la Infancia y Adolescencia. Marta Diaz Gómez y col. Mcgraw.Hill-interamericana España 2006
Tratado de Pediatría. Nelson. 21ª edición 2020
Tratado de Pediatría. M Cruz. 11ª Edición AEP. 2014.
Manuales Clínicos Neonatología . 5ª edic. 2006.
Manual de la Lactancia Materna de la teoría a la práctica. Panamericana. A.E.P. 2008
Asistencia de enfermería Materno-Neonatal. Towle, Mary Ann. Madrid Prentice Hall D.L XXIII 580p.2010
Enfermería Pediátrica. Asistencia Infantil.Jane WBall;Ruth Bindler. Prentice Hall Ed Pearson 2010
Asistencia de Enfermería materno- neonatal. Mary Ann Towle Ed Pearson 2010
Fundamentos de la Enfermería del Niño y del Adolescente. Madrid ed Enfo Parafuden 2007
Tratado de Enfermería del Niño y Adolescente. Cuidados Pediátricos. Mª José Aguilar Cordero 2ª edici 2012
Tratado de Pediatría Extrahospitalaria. José del Pozo Machucha. Ergon 2011.
Manual del curso europeo de reanimación cardiopulmonar básica y avanzada pediátrica. Guías del ERC 2010. European Resuscitation Council 2011.
Manual de inmunizaciones en línea de la AEP. Asociación Española de Pediatría, 2023.
- To know the specific aspects of newborn care.
- To identify the characteristics of the childhoood and adolescence steps and the factors that modulate the normal pattern of growth and development.
- To know the more frequent health problems during childhood and to identify their clinical characteristics.
- To analyzed the child's assessment data, identifying nurse's related problmes and potential complications.
- To apply the procedures that integrate nurse care, establishing a therapeutic relationship with children and caretakers.
- To select interventins directed to healthy children as well as those derived from diagnostic and treatment methods.
- To be able to educate for health parents or primary caretakers.
- To have abilities to put in practice health and safety principles, including patient management, infectious control, basic life suppor and emergency procedures (by using skills).
Lectures.
Seminaries to prepare and present some of the topics of the program.
Basic and advanced clinical simulation.
Pediatric life support workshop.
Presentation and discussion of clinical cases.
Personal work (individual and group).
Continued assessment of theoretical and practical knowledge.
It will include a MCQ test with 60 to 80 questions each one with 4 options, only one correct. Every fail will discount one point. This test will represent from 60 to 70% of final mark.
Assessment of interactive teaching (seminaries and laboratories)
It will be performed in a continuous way, considering the active participation and the quality.
This part will represent from 30 to 40 % of the final mark.
To pass the subject it will be required at least 55% of the total points in the test and 60% in the practical assessment.
To not pass the subject will mean the repetition of all the program and assessments.
Hours in the classroom: 18pm
Seminar Hours: 15h
Lab: 3 hours
Rating: 2 hrs
Student personnel work hours: 70h
Presence and active participation in all teaching and learning activities, being lectures, seminarr or laboratories.
It is desirable that in addition to the recommended bibliography the studentes know the existence of web pages related to Pediatric Nursing like:
Asociación Española de Enfermería para a Infancia (aeei)
Asociación Nacional de Enfermeiras Neonatais (ANECIPN)
Federación das parteiras de España (http://www.federacion-matronas.org)
Asociación Española de Pediatría (http://www.aeped.es)
Sociedade Española de Medicina do Adolescente (www.adolescenciasema.org http://)
Sociedade de Enfermeiros pediátricos (http://www.pedsnurses.org)
Antonio Rodriguez Nuñez
Coordinador/a- Department
- Psychiatry, Radiology, Public Health, Nursing and Medicine
- Area
- Nursing
- antonio.rodriguez.nunez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
| Tuesday | |||
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| 12:00-13:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Spanish | Classroom 5 - Roberto Novoa Santos |
| 13:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_02 | Spanish | Classroom 6 - Roberto Novoa Santos |
| Wednesday | |||
| 12:00-13:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Spanish | Classroom 5 - Roberto Novoa Santos |
| 13:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_02 | Spanish | Classroom 6 - Roberto Novoa Santos |
| Thursday | |||
| 12:00-13:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Spanish | Classroom 5 - Roberto Novoa Santos |
| 13:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_02 | Spanish | Classroom 6 - Roberto Novoa Santos |
| 05.27.2025 10:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLE_02 | Classroom 5 - Roberto Novoa Santos |
| 05.27.2025 10:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 5 - Roberto Novoa Santos |
| 05.27.2025 10:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLE_02 | Classroom 6 - Roberto Novoa Santos |
| 05.27.2025 10:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 6 - Roberto Novoa Santos |
| 05.27.2025 10:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLE_02 | R.N.S.- Main Hall |
| 05.27.2025 10:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | R.N.S.- Main Hall |
| 07.08.2025 16:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLE_02 | Classroom 5 - Roberto Novoa Santos |
| 07.08.2025 16:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 5 - Roberto Novoa Santos |
| 07.08.2025 16:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLE_02 | Classroom 6 - Roberto Novoa Santos |
| 07.08.2025 16:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 6 - Roberto Novoa Santos |
| 07.08.2025 16:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLE_02 | R.N.S.- Main Hall |
| 07.08.2025 16:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | R.N.S.- Main Hall |