Introduction to Pediatric Nursing Laboratory

Laboratory equipment is listed below:

1.          General beds for children

2.          Child dummy

3.          Abbott pump

4.          Oxygen tents

5.          Jaundice lamp

6.          Respirators for children

 

Course description

This course extends the fundamental nursing experiment and medical-surgical nursing experiment techniques learned by students; for instance, sterilization techniques, administering medication, understanding nutritional requirements and body fluid supply, and advanced CPR. The course content mainly introduces common clinical pediatric nursing techniques based on the acquired concepts and skills of fundamental nursing and medical-surgical nursing techniques. The techniques consist of newborn bathing, emergency first aid for babies and children, pediatric intravenous administration, pediatric respiratory care, pediatric specimen collection, and pediatric physical assessment. We expect students to be equipped with fundamental pediatric nursing experimental knowledge and critical thinking abilities after participating in the course. Thus, the students can actively assess and discover health problems of different clinical problems and conditions of children using the acquired technical knowledge and competence to provide necessary nursing care to clinical child patients, thereby improving nursing care skills. We also expect students who have finished this course to communicate with children, care for this patient group, present required ethics of pediatric nursing personnel, and be accountable while clinically caring for children.

 

Teaching objectives

The teaching objective of this course is demonstrated using cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains. The cognitive domain is used to comprehend the professional role and function of pediatric nursing personnel, theories related to common clinical pediatric nursing techniques, technical operation procedures, notification, and timing of use. Problems that commonly occur during technical practice can also be identified. The affective domain includes concern for children, communicating with children gladly, and caring for children. The psychomotor domain covers the ability to use the acquired techniques in the students’ future pediatric nursing internship to care for child patients and assist families in adapting to the impact caused by sick children.

 

Lecture content:

1.      Pediatric specimen collection

2.      Pediatric respiratory care

3.      Simple pediatric physical assessment

4.      Pediatric intravenous administration

5.      Newborn bathing

6.      Emergency first aid for babies and children