1. komponenta

Lecture type	Total
Exercises	150
Lectures	40

* Load is given in academic hour (1 academic hour = 45 minutes)

Adopting general and specific knowledge, skills, and competencies in contemporary nursing care for healthy and sick children in all aspects of health care, including physical, psychosocial, spiritual, and cultural factors that may influence a child's health/illness.

1. Assess the health, educational, and supportive needs of the child and the parents/caregivers to maintain physical and mental health as well as to prevent illness
2. Apply the principles of child safety in the hospital and therapeutic communication in the relationships between nurse-child and nurse-parent/caregiver
3. Apply procedures and comprehensive individualized health care for the child
4. Demonstrate various methods of preparing and administering medications to children and activities related to managing side effects
5. Demonstrate procedures for emergency situations in pediatrics and for the care of critically ill children in the ICU
6. Demonstrate the assessment of pain intensity and methods of pain management in children, especially in the terminal stage of illness

1. Pedijatrija, Mardešić D, i sur., Zagreb:Školska knjiga, 2016.

1. Introduction in Maternity and Pediatric Nursing, Leifer G, Keenan-Lindsay L., Elsevier Health Sciences, 2019.
2. Safe Maternity & Pediatric Nursing Care, Linnard-Palmer L, Haile Coats G., F.A. Davis, 2017.

Mandatory course - Part-time studij - Nursing