Child Health Assessment Center

Child Health Assessment Center
 
Introduction to the Child Health Assessment Center
 
The laboratory is equipped with the following instruments:
Denver II screening tools, models of healthy teeth, deciduous teeth, permanent teeth, and child dental caries, child organ model, blood pressure monitor, computerized multipurpose pulmonary function testing equipment Hi-801, child activity level measurement system, portable vision testing apparatus, automatic vision testing apparatus KH-525, environmental control demonstration model for children with allergies, electronic cradle, infant model, and hand-held otoacoustic emissions (OAE) testing apparatus.
 
Curriculum Description
The purpose of the course is to understand the physiological development and the health problem of a child at ages from newborn to eighteen years old. Additionally,it includes the discussion of family impact that the family suffers from caring for an unhealthy child. Besides, the course addresses the topic of the role of a pediatric nurse, After studying this course, the students will be capable of caring for a sick child and dealing with the physiological issues of educating the client and the family.
 
Teaching Objective
1. Understand the role and functions of pediatric nurses.
2. Understand the growth and development of children from birth to adolescence, and the abnormal symptoms of each age level.
3. Understand the common diseases and treatments suitable for children at each age level.
4. Understand the reactions of children and their families to hospitalization and nursing.
 
Teaching Subjects
1. Five-year pediatric nursing college program
(1) Introduction to child organs
(2) Denver II screening test for measuring infant and child development
(3) Pulmonary function test
(4) Environmental control demonstration for children with allergies
2. Health assessment experiments of a two-year technical institute program
(1) Checkups and assessments for infants and children
(2) Nutritional assessments for children
(3) Vision screening for children
(4) Hearing screening for children
(5) Pulmonary function test