Study Guide

Objectives (course unit)

The student
- is able to evaluate, support and guide the health, growth and development of a child under school age
- is able to support the family's healthy and safe lifestyle by utilising the family's own resources
- is able to identify the specific needs of children and families, is able to make consultations and, if necessary, send the child and family for further examinations and care
- is able to use family history to take into account the child's health

Content (course unit)

- family-centred health care for a child and a family with children in public health nursing
- follow-up methods and assessments of a child’s health
- family health guidance (for example media, nutrition, exercise, weight management, oral health, accidents)
- early interaction and working methods to support parenthood
- As a tool, family tree in family health examination

Prerequisites (course unit)

The student must have completed the course Basics of Public Health Nursing.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1-2) (course unit)

- is able examine and explore the health of a child and a family with children from a certain point of view only
- has a narrow understanding of lifestyle guidance and use one-sided methods in lifestyle guidance
- is able to identify only sporadic needs of families with children
- osaa käyttää keskeisempiä lapsen kasvun ja kehityksen seulontamenetelmiä
- know the importance of the family's medical history in the client's health

Assessment criteria, good (3-4) (course unit)

- is able to examine and explore the health of a child and a family with children mainly in diverse ways
- is able to support central health-promoting lifestyles using few working methods
- is able to identify the most important special needs of a family with children and knows the principles of supporting and monitoring them
- osaa käyttää lapsen kasvun ja kehityksen seulontamenetelmiä
- understands the significance of the family's medical history and is able to use family history in the family health examination

Assessment criteria, excellent (5) (course unit)

- is able explore and examine the health of the child and the family with children holistically in a researched based way and shows the ability to support the child and the family individually
- is able to support the healthy and safe lifestyle of the family in a resource-based way, applying various methods of working as a public health nurse
- is able to identify the special needs of the child and the family and demonstrate extensive capacity to their support, to monitoring and to follow-up care
- is able to use and apply a variety of screening methods for the child's growth and development
- understands the significance of the family's medical history and is able to utilize the information accumulated from the family history.

Assessment scale

0-5