Course: Emergency care in Pediatrics 1

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Course title Emergency care in Pediatrics 1
Course code FZS/NPP1
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements Course does not contain work placement
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Kuchař Martin, MUDr.
  • Horáček Matěj, MUDr.
  • Reček Jakub, Ing. Bc. DiS.
Course content
Lectures: 1) Division of childhood, physiological development of a child, growth and prosperity on the weight of an infant, toddler older children, growth percentiles, growth diagnosis 2) Preventive examinations and vaccination, abused child 3) Neonatology: physiological newborn, postpartum treatment and stay in maternity hospital, prevention of haemorhagicus, breastfeeding; birth injuries, the most common congenital malformations, asphyxia, hyperbilirubinaemia, neonatal infection; convulsions 4) Premature newborn: Respiratory Distress Syndrome, infection, hyperbilirubinaemia, respiratory disorders, circulatory instability, nutrition, anemia 5) Infants: nutrition, failure to thrive, cow's milk protein allergy, cystic fibrosis, rachitis, infant diarrhea, GER, inflammatory bowel disease, abdominal pain, celiac disease 6) Endocrinology: growth disorders, endocrinological diseases of childhood, growth hormone deficiency, hypocorticalis and hypercorticalis, thyroid disease, hypoparathyroidism and hyperparathyroidism, diabetes insipidus, pheochromocytoma, diabetes mellitus 7) Infectious diseases of childhood Exercises: 1) Primary (secondary, tertiary) health care, general medicine for children and adolescents and a nurse in his office (professional qualifications, education), taking a newborn into care, demonstration and work with the child's health and vaccination card 2) The development of a healthy child (the most significant developmental aspects of childhood), demonstration and work with percentile graphs, Vlach scheme, development of children's drawing, vaccination calendar, peculiarities of communication with children; Charter of children's rights 3) Nursing process in physiological newborn after birth, Apgar score, signs of maturity, evaluation (physiological functions, skin color, reflexes, urination, pitch, voice, state of consciousness, muscle tone) 4) Nursing process of premature newborn; nursing process in a child with congenital developmental defect; nursing process in a child with low birth weight 5) Nursing interventions in intensive care neonatology; hemotherapy in neonatology 6) Nursing process in children with non-specific intestinal inflammation, abdominal pain of celiac disease; individual diets, baby's diet, sweat test; 7) Nursing process in children with diabetes mellitus (insulin, diet, exercise), demonstration of aids, first aid in the complications of this disease; nursing process in children with infectious diseases; regime measures, collection of biological material

Learning activities and teaching methods
Dialogue metods(conversation,discussion,brainstorming)
  • Class attendance - 96 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The course acquaints with the development, health and illness of childhood. Emphasis is placed on the differences of individual needs of children and the way of their satisfaction. It is focused on a pediatric patient with acute and chronic illness, taking into account the particularities of individual developmental stages of childhood and adolescence. The content of the course is the nursing process in individual pediatric diseases also focusing on emergency care.
Students obtain knowledge in given course in accordance with requirements and course programme.
Prerequisites
Preconditions are frased in the annotation of the course and in the curriculum of the studying programme.

Assessment methods and criteria
Didactic test

Classified credit: - 80% participation in exercises, - a written test.
Recommended literature
  • BAYER, Milan. Pediatrie. Praha: Triton, 2011. ISBN 978-80-7387-388-2.
  • KLÍMA, Jiří. Pediatrie pro nelékařské zdravotnické obory. Praha: Grada, 2016. ISBN 978-80-247-5014-9.
  • MUNTAU, Ania. Pediatrie. Praha: Grada, 2014. ISBN 978-80-247-4588-6.
  • PLEVOVÁ, Ilona a Regina SLOWIK. Komunikace s dětským pacientem. Praha: Grada, 2010. ISBN 978-80-247-2968-8.
  • SIKOROVÁ, Lucie. Dětská sestra v primární a komunitní péči. Praha: Grada, 2012. ISBN 978-80-247-3592-4.
  • SIKOROVÁ, Lucie. Ošetřovatelská péče v pediatrii. Ostravská univerzita v Ostravě, Ostrava, 2011. ISBN 978-80-7464-095-7.
  • SIKOROVÁ, Lucie. Potřeby dítěte v ošetřovatelském procesu. Praha: Grada, 2011. ISBN 978-80-247-3593-1.
  • SLANÝ, Jaroslav. Speciální pediatrie pro ošetřovatelství: vysokoškolská učebnice. Ostrava: Ostravská univerzita v Ostravě, Zdravotně sociální fakulta, 2008. ISBN 978-80-7368-472-3.
  • SLEZÁKOVÁ, Lenka. Ošerřovatelství v pediatrii. Praha: Grada, 2010. ISBN 978-80-247-3286-2.
  • ZANOVITOVÁ, Mária a Anna OVŠONKOVÁ. Ošetrovateĺská starostlivosť v pediatrii. Ostrava: Ostravská univerzita v Ostravě, 2011. ISBN 978-80-7464-082-7.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Health Studies Study plan (Version): Health Rescuer (15) Category: Health service 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter