ΠΕΡΙΓΡΑΜΜΑ ΜΑΘΗΜΑΤΟΣ

Students will acquire the necessary knowledge and skills in order to be able to evaluate paediatric patients’ needs, to state and prioritize nursing diagnosis, to plan a nursing care plan, to apply nursing interventions and to evaluate outcomes. Students are going to learn and provide nursing care plans for paediatric patients (newborn to adolescent) with various health problems using the nursing process. In addition, students are going to acquire basic knowledge regarding obstetric nursing, such as pre-conception tests, conception, pregnancy, physiology and pathology of pregnancy, partum and complications. Assessment and management of pregnant women, women in labour and during the postpartum period are included in the syllabus.

In the lab students are going to acquire knowledge and skills necessary to care for children and newborns.

• Decision-making.
• Working independently.
• Team work.
• Project planning and management.
• Respect for difference and multiculturalism.
• Criticism and self-criticism.
• Working in an interdisciplinary environment.

Theory:

• Child physical assessment and development.
• Child/adolescent during hospitalization.
• Basic principles of paediatric nursing history based on its physical examination.
• Maternity Nursing – conception, pregnancy, pre-pregnancy tests, delivery, post-partum period.
• Assessment of the newborn – Health problems in newborns.
• Problems of the Respiratory Tract in children.
• Problems of the Urinary System in children.
• Blood diseases in children.
• Problems of the Neurological System in children.
• Children surgery – pre-operative and post-operative care, assessment, complications, interventions.
• Children with chronic disease (asthma, diabetes mellitus, malignancies, chronic kidney disease etc).
• Psychosocial problems in children/adolescents (autism, dyslexia, schizophrenia, boulimia, depression).
• Ethical dilemmas in children nursing – decision making.

Laboratory:

• Drug administration – general principles.
• Drug administration: oral, rectum, inhalers, eye and ear drops.
• Drug administration – dosages, intramuscular injection.
• Parenteral drug administration – solutions, intravenous cannulation.
• Vital signs (arterial blood pressure, pulse, respirations, temperature), fever and its management.
• Collecting specimens (urine culture, blood culture, faeces culture, pharyngeal and nasal specimen, trauma drainage specimen, sputum specimen, collection of 24h urine).
• CPR and Heimlich maneuver.
• Delivery, assessment and care of the newborn, diagnostic tests, baby wash, caring for the umbilical cord.
• Premature babies, incubator, caring for incubated babies, oxygen and light therapy, exchange transfusion.
• Breast-feeding (preparation, position), artificial feeding, Levin catheterization.