Course syllabus for Health and Living Conditions of Children and Adolescents

Barn och ungdomars hälsa och livsvillkor

Specific entry requirements

Of The Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare awarded professional status qualification as nurse.

A participant that has failed the clinical training/equivalent as a consequence of that the participant has shown so serious deficiencies in knowledge, skills or attitudes that the patient security or the patients' trust for the healthcare have been jeopardized, is qualified to a new clinical training placement only when the individual action plan has been completed.

Outcomes

The general aims of the course are that the participant should achieve skills about children's and adolescents' health and ill health from a family-oriented perspective in order to independently be able to carry out health care and nursing for children and adolescents. The aim is also to provide advanced knowledge of the academic basis of the field as well as current research and development work.

Part 1 - Health and living condition for children and adolescents, 7.5 credits

On completion of this part, the participant should have acquired:

Knowledge and understanding

• _t_o be able to show advanced knowledge about children and the health and ill health from a family-oriented perspective of adolescents and from a national perspective
• to be able to describe health-political aims with a focus on children, adolescents and their families
• to be able to explain relationships between living condition, environment, risk/health factors and health/ill health, national and international
• to be able to explain epidemiological and health educational concepts and models
• to be able to describe and explain the development and theories of children and youths and models about parenthood, parental support and interplay between children and parents

Skills and abilities

• _t_o be able to analyse relationships between life style factors and health and evaluate health educational theories and methods relevant to health promotion and preventive work with a focus on children and youths and their families
• to be able to assess and reflect on nursing related to breast feeding, diet, eating habits and nutritional contents for children, youths and their families from development and health aspects
• to be able to explain and assess injuries and diseases commonly occurring within the child health and the pupil health medical actions from a nursing perspective
• to be able to identify and analyse the needs of children, youths and families of specific support and inform about different actions and supports from the responsibility and resources of the society

Judgment and approach

• to be able to argue for the rights of children according to the children's convention and reflect on an ethical attitude based on a person-oriented attitude

Part 2 - Clinical training in child - and school health services, 7.5 credits

On completion of this part, the participant should have acquired:

Knowledge and understanding

• to be able to demonstrate an understanding of children health and the organisation, leadership and cooperation of the pupil health with close areas of activity and other professions and have knowledge of current legislation and control documents
• to be able to critically evaluate national and international nursing research, quality development and application of evidence-based methods within child health and the medical actions of the pupil health and identify needs of additional knowledge

Skills and abilities

• independently be able to plan, carry out, evaluate and document medical examinations/health dialogue and health educational actions in individual-, group- and community level
• to independently and in collaboration with the family be able to analyse and assess nursing need, plan, carry out and evaluate and document nursing actions within child health and the organization of the pupil health
• independently be able to assess, prescribe and administrate drug for vaccinations according to the national vaccination programme within child health and the medical actions of the pupil health and independent carry out vaccination on a for the child educational and safe way

Judgment and approach

• to be able to make assessments and priorities in complex situations considering scientific, social, cultural and ethical aspects within child health and the medical actions of the pupil health

Content

The course consists of two parts:

Health and living condition for children and adolescents, 7.5 credits

Grading scale: GU
- Health-political aims, the children's convention.

- Epidemiological concepts and methods.

- Relationship between health, life style factors and living condition and health theories related to child and youths.

- Diseases at children and adolescents such as mental disease, eating disorders, allergy, injuries, accidents, psychosomatic symptoms, neuropsychiatric disabilities and physical disabilities and commonly occurring somatic diseases with a focus on nursing.

- Health care and health educational models e g explaining talks and health dialogue within child health and the medical actions of the pupil health.

- Caring sciences e g the transition theory.

- Parenthood, parental supports.

- Children and the development of youths, development theories.

- Breast feeding, diet and nutritional contents.

- The needs of children, youths and families of specific support.

Clinical training in child - and school health services, 7.5 credits

Grading scale: GU
- Legislation, ordinances, control documents and organization within child health and the medical actions of the pupil health.

- Leadership and cooperation with other professions.

- Medical examinations and health dialogue, developmental assessment and health pedagogics.

- Parenthood, parental supports - individually and in groups.

- Family-oriented nursing.

- The nursing process.

- Vaccination activity.

- Medical technology and safety.

- Ethical aspects.

- Multifaceted perspective in complex situations.

- Quality development and evidence-based methods.

Teaching methods

The teaching start from a problem-oriented and collaborative view on learning the working methods where give precondition because the participant takes responsibility actively for their learning.

The working methods that are used are individual study assignments, work in groups, virtual discussions and seminars and lectures.

Clinical placement is included in the course and during this period, supervision and reflection are included individually and/or in groups.

Examination

Part 1 - Health and living conditions for children and youths
Examinations are conducted in the form of individual assignments, group assignments and seminars.
The number of possible occasions to be examined is regulated according to closed agreements.

Part 2 - Clinical training within child health and the medical actions of the pupil health
The examiner can instantly interrupt a participant´s clinical training or an equivalent activity if the participant shows such serious deficiencies in knowledge, skills or attitudes that the patient security or the patients' trust for the healthcare are jeopardized.

When the clinical training is interrupted such as this, it implies that the participant fails on current part and that one clinical training occasion is consumed. In such cases, a written individual action plan should be established stating which activities and examinations that are required.

Transitional provisions

Transitional provisions are regulated according to agreements

Other directives

Course evaluation takes place in accordance with the guidelines established by the Committee for Higher Education.

Teaching takes place in Swedish. Teaching in English may occur.

The following course is overlapping: 2BU010

Literature and other teaching aids

Recommended literature

• Andersson, Ingemar, Epidemiologi för hälsovetare: en introduktion, 2., [utök.] uppl. : Lund : Studentlitteratur, 2016 - 272 s. ISBN: 9789144105109, LIBRIS-ID: 18773356,
• Att möta familjer inom vård och omsorg, Benzein, Eva; Hagberg, Margaretha; Saveman, Britt-Inger, Andra upplagan : Lund : Studentlitteratur, [2017] - 288 sidor ISBN: 978-91-44-11587-0, LIBRIS-ID: 20891992,
• Barnhälsovård: att främja barns hälsa, Magnusson, Margaretha; Blennow, Margareta; Hagelin, Elisabet; Sundelin, Claes, 6. uppl. : Stockholm : Liber, 2016 - 294 s. ISBN: 9789147111862, LIBRIS-ID: 18810581,
• Barnmedicin, Hanséus, Katarina; Jägervall, Martin; Norman, Mikael, 5 uppl. : Studentlitteratur AB, 2020 - 914 sidor ISBN: 9789144129563, LIBRIS-ID: dqcngst5bbf77xdx,
• Blair, Mitch, Barnhälsovetenskap, 1. uppl. : Lund : Studentlitteratur, 2013 - 371 s. ISBN: 9789144081359, LIBRIS-ID: 14663506,
• Dahlberg, Karin; Segesten, Kerstin, Hälsa och vårdande: i teori och praxis, Stockholm : Natur & Kultur, 2010 - 344 s. ISBN: 91-27-12211-5 (inb.), LIBRIS-ID: 11766742,
• Den orättvisa hälsan: om socioekonomiska skillnader i hälsa och livslängd, Rostila, Mikael; Toivanen, Susanna, 1. utg. : Stockholm : Liber, 2012 - 376 s. ISBN: 978-91-47-09975-7, LIBRIS-ID: 12346023,
• Evidensbaserad elevhälsa, Milerad, Josef; Lindgren, Carl, Andra upplagan : 2017 - 488 sidor ISBN: 9789144117959, LIBRIS-ID: 21869926,
• Hwang, Philip; Nilsson, Björn, Utvecklingspsykologi, 3., rev. utg. : Stockholm : Natur och kultur, 2011 - 376 s. ISBN: 978-91-27-13074-6 (inb.), LIBRIS-ID: 12148989,
• Investera i barns hälsa, Bremberg, Sven; Eriksson, Lilly, 1. uppl. : Stockholm : Gothia, 2010 - 224 s. ISBN: 978-91-7205-653-4, LIBRIS-ID: 11914746,
• Klinisk barnpsykologi: utveckling på avvägar, Broberg, Anders; Almqvist, Kjerstin; Risholm Mothander, Pia; Tjus, Tomas, 2., rev. utg. : Stockholm : Natur & kultur, 2015 - 576 s. ISBN: 9789127135888, LIBRIS-ID: 17549762,
• Knorring, Anne-Liis von, Psykisk ohälsa hos barn och ungdomar, 1. uppl. : Lund : Studentlitteratur, 2012 - 208 s. ISBN: 978-91-44-05669-2, LIBRIS-ID: 13527565,
• Kylberg, Elisabeth; Westlund, Anna Maria; Zwedberg, Sofia, Amning i dag, Tredje upplagan : Stockholm : Gothia Fortbildning, [2018] - 189 sidor ISBN: 9789177410904, LIBRIS-ID: 084vx1f4xrjmnnff,
• Miller, William R.; Rollnick, Stephen, Motiverande samtal: att hjälpa människor till förändring, 3., [dvs 4]., utg. : Stockholm : Natur & Kultur, 2013 - 516 s. ISBN: 9789127135390, LIBRIS-ID: 14008440,
• Pediatrik, Moëll, Christian; Gustafsson, Jan, 2:a upplagan : Stockholm : Liber, 2017 - 627 sidor ISBN: 9789147112968, LIBRIS-ID: 21139754,
• Pediatrisk omvårdnad, Hallström, Inger; Lindberg, Tor, 2. [utök. och uppdaterade] uppl. : Stockholm : Liber, 2015 - 384 s. ISBN: 9789147115099, LIBRIS-ID: 17978431,
• Perspektiv på barnkonventionen: forskning, teori och praktik, Ponnert, Lina; Sonander, Anna, Upplaga 1 : Lund : Studentlitteratur, [2019] - 490 sidor ISBN: 9789144125015, LIBRIS-ID: 3dwlxv2t1pv0stnn,
• Skolsköterskans hälsofrämjande arbete, Clausson, Eva K.; Morberg, Siv, Andra upplagan : Lund : Studentlitteratur, [2019] - 287 sidor ISBN: 9789144125343, LIBRIS-ID: mxtr7lvbkfvzk6xp,
• Vägledande dokument för barnhälsovården, Socialstyrelsen, http://www.socialstyrelsen.se/publikationer2014/2014-10-2,
• Vägledning för elevhälsan, Socialstyrelsen, http://www.socialstyrelsen.se/publikationer2014/2014-10-2,