INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES (ILOS)
FOR UNDERGRADUATE PEDIATRIC NURSING COURSE
A-Knowledge and understanding
By the end of the course, the student should be able to:
- Describe normal growth and development during infancy, childhood and adolescence.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the impact of congenital diseases on children and their families.
- Determine the nutritional requirements, how to be given and the most common nutritional disorders affecting infants and children, and appropriate nursing and medical management for disorders.
- Describe the indications, contraindications, administration and precautions for the immunizations necessary for infants and children according to the national schedule and the condition of the child.
- Recognize the most important behavioral issues during childhood and adolescence.
- Describe appropriate measures for health promotion as well as prevention of diseases in infants, children and adolescents.
- Formulate the nursing management priorities for both of normal newborn and high risk babies.
B- Intellectual skills:
By the end of the course, the student should be able to:
- Interpret the most important symptoms and signs of diseases in pediatric child.
- Formulate appropriate nursing care planes for individual child presenting with the most common Pediatric disorders according to the child age.
- Make decisions regarding common clinical situations using appropriate problem solving skills.
C- Professional and practical skills:
By the end of the course, the student should be able to:
- Perform medical examination
- Measure weight, length, height, circumference of the head, chest, and mid-arm for infants and children
- Baby bath (tub bath- bed bath)
- Restrain infants and children
- Perform diaper care and cord care
- Administer medications to infants and children
- Feeding infants and children (bottle, gavage, gastrostomy feeding and assist mother in breast feeding)
- Resuscitate newborn
- Collect specimens (sputum, urine, stool)
- Practice principles of infection control
D- General skills:
By the end of the course, the student should be able to:
- Figure out strategies and nursing plans using the available community resources.
- Use different models for assessing client needs, considering the child needs of the society.
- Communicate effectively with children, adolescent and their families.
- Demonstrate appropriate professional attitudes and behaviors in different practice situations.