Course syllabus for Paediatric Nursing, with Emergency Care Focus

Pediatrisk omvårdnad med inriktning mot akutsjukvård

Specific entry requirements

Professional qualification as a nurse certified by the National Board of Health and Welfare. Alternatively, current enrollment at the Specialist Nursing Program at Karolinska Institutet.

Outcomes

The general aims of the course are that the participant should on completion of the course be able to apply advanced knowledge in anatomy, pathophysiology, pharmacology, clinical diagnostics, pain physiology and failure in vital bodies and apply these within the framework of specific nursing of critically ill children and youths within paediatric emergency care.

On completion of the course, the participant should be able to:

Knowledge and understanding.

• analyse and explain symptom and treatment at children and youths in different acute diseases,
• identify and analyse nursing needs at the emergency care and triage system,
• show knowledge and understanding about improvement -, development - and current research within the peadiatric emergency care,
• show knowledge of crisis intervention and coping strategies in connection with mental stressful situations for child/youth, parents and staff.

Skills and abilities

• show ability to prioritise, initiate, carry out and evaluate nursing actions at complex/acute diseases considering developmental stage, family situation, cultural background and genders,
• show ability to integrate the nursing process by analysing assess argue too and handle complex phenomena, issues and situations also with restricted information, and ensure patient-safe communication,
• demonstrate scientific precision in analysis and written text.

Judgement and approach

• analyse and reflect around relevant scholarship, best practice and an ethical attitude, see its relationship and importance for specialist the nursing profession within peadiatric emergency care,
• show ability, within the UN Child Convention and societal- and ethical aspects inherence of a holistic approach in peadiatrics emergency care,
• demonstrate the ability to personal inventory relevant to professional practice, and stand up for the basic values in pediatric healthcare, as well as the basic values of healthcare that follow the Health Care Act, Patient Safety Act, World Health Organization and the UN's Health and Human Rights View.

Content

The contents of the course focus on the emergency medicine knowledge field with a specialisation in care of children and youths. Within the frame of the course, medical, surgical and orthopaedic conditions, trauma and care and treatment at acute failure in vital functions are studied.

Furthermore, descriptive anatomy and emergency care in different medical and surgical diseases are treated concerning respiratory system, cardiovascular system, the fluid- electrolyte balance and acid/base, neurology and neurophysiology and pain and pain treatment. In addition, the course makes an overview of specific nursing including ethics, and the diversity perspective, and related to scholarship and research within the emergency care.

Further, the child/the youth/the situation and interaction of the family and communication is studied. Togehter with laws, ordinances and safety precautions occurring in the paediatric emergency care.

Teaching methods

The teaching is based on a problem-oriented and collaborative approach to learning in which the tasks provide opportunities for the participant to take active responsibility for their learning. The used teaching methods are introductory lectures and student-activating teaching and working methods (individually, in groups and in seminars). The course is carried out as distance education with a webbased learning management system as basis.
Working in groups, active participation in seminars and attendance at all scheduled group meetings is mandatory.

The course coordinator decides whether, and if so how, absence from compulsory course elements can be made up. Study results cannot be reported until the participant has participated in compulsory course elements or compensated for any absence in accordance with instructions from the course coordinator.

Examination

The course contains part-examinations and final examination with a collaborative approach with project-groups (peer learning), individual work, and peer review based on patient cases linked to specific issues.

The number of examination opportunities is regulated in the agreement.

Transitional provisions

Transitional provisions by agreement.

Other directives

The course evaluation takes place according to guidelines established by the Board of education.

Language of instruction: Swedish

Literature and other teaching aids

• Barnmedicin, Hanséus, Katarina; Lagercrantz, Hugo; Lindberg, Tor, 4., [rev. och uppdaterade] uppl. : Lund : Studentlitteratur, 2012 - 674 s. ISBN: 978-91-44-07609-6 (inb.), LIBRIS-ID: 12531935,
• Bischofberger, Erwin, Barnet i vården, 1. uppl. : Stockholm : Liber, 2004 - 160 s. ISBN: 91-47-05200-7, LIBRIS-ID: 9717973,
• Göransson, Katarina; Eldh, Ann Catrine; Jansson, Anna, Triage på akutmottagning, 1. uppl. : Stockholm : Studentlitteratur, 2008 - 118 s. ISBN: 978-91-44-04774-4, LIBRIS-ID: 10909577,
• Kompendium i barnkirurgi och barnortopedi, Frenckner, Björn; Hirsch, Georg; Wester, Tomas; Åstrand, Per, [Ny, omarb. och uppdaterad utg.] : Stockholm : Karolinska Institutet University Press, 2015 - 388 s. ISBN: 9789185565764, LIBRIS-ID: 17592866,
• Pediatrisk omvårdnad, Hallström, Inger; Lindberg, Tor, 2. [utök. och uppdaterade] uppl. : Stockholm : Liber, 2015 - 384 s. ISBN: 9789147115099, LIBRIS-ID: 17978431,
• Pediatrisk vård och specifik omvårdnad, Edwinson Månsson, Marie; Enskär, Karin, 2., [rev.] uppl. : Lund : Studentlitteratur, 2008 - 479 s. ISBN: 978-91-44-01991-8, LIBRIS-ID: 10738037,
• Söderbäck, Maja, Kommunikation med barn och unga i vården, 1. uppl. : Stockholm : Liber, 2014 - 216 s. ISBN: 9789147114061, LIBRIS-ID: 14813662,
• Tveiten, Sidsel; Wennick, Anne; Steen, Hanna Friis, Sykepleie til barn: familiesentrert sykepleie, Oslo : Gyldendal akademisk, 2012 - 216 s. ISBN: 978-82-05-40689-6, LIBRIS-ID: 13515467,
• Widlund, Tomas, Akut pediatrik, Norgren, Svante; Ludvigsson, Jonas F.; Norman, Mikael, 7., kompletterade och rev. uppl. : Stockholm : Liber, 2010 - 383 s. ISBN: 978-91-47-09402-8, LIBRIS-ID: 11864066,
• Willman, Ania, Evidensbaserad omvårdnad: en bro mellan forskning och klinisk verksamhet, 4., [rev.] uppl. : Lund : Studentlitteratur, 2016 - 186 s. ISBN: 9789144109022, LIBRIS-ID: 19090791,
• Smärta och smärtbehandling hos barn och ungdomar, Lundeberg, Stefan; Olsson, Gunnar L., 1. uppl. : Lund : Studentlitteratur, 2016 - 246 s. ISBN: 9789144092447, LIBRIS-ID: 19731063,
• Henriksson, Olle; Lennermark, Ingalill, Värt att veta om vätskebalans: lärobok om vatten-, elektrolyt- och syra-basbalans, Johanneshov : MTM, 2017 - 1 CD-R LIBRIS-ID: 20900879,
• Pediatrik, Moëll, Christian; Gustafsson, Jan, 2:a upplagan : Stockholm : Liber, 2017 - 627 sidor ISBN: 9789147112968, LIBRIS-ID: 21139754,