Public Health Nursing: Child and Family Health Care (3 cr)

Code: 7K00GD45-3001

General information

Enrolment period: 30.12.2023 - 28.01.2024; Registration for the implementation has ended.

Timing: 29.01.2024 - 17.03.2024; Implementation has ended.

Credits: 3 cr

Mode of delivery: Contact learning

Unit: Social Services and Health Care

Campus: TAMK Main Campus

Teaching languages: Finnish

Degree programmes: Degree Programme in Nursing and Health Care, Public Health Nursing

Teachers: Paula Pajunen

Person in charge: Paula Pajunen

Course: 7K00GD45

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.

Location and time

31.1-17.3.2024

Exam schedules

Moodle tentti 13-14.3.2024
I uusinta 11.4.2024 ja II uusinta 2.5.2024

Assessment scale

0-5

Teaching methods

Keskusteluluennot, itsenäinen työskentely, pienryhmä- ja työpajatyöskentely verkossa. Orientaatio 31.1.2024 , pakollinen läsnäolo.

Learning materials

Luennot ja muu Moodlessa oleva matreriaali.
NEUKO-tietokanta
• Terveystarkastukset lastenneuvolassa, menetelmäkäsikirja 14/ 2017, THL
• THL.2016. Syödään yhdessä - ruokasuositukset lapsiperheille.
• Armanto & Koistinen toim.(2007) Neuvolatyön käsikirja. Tammi;
• Saarenpää-Heikkilä & Paavonen: Imeväisen uniongelmat. 2008. Duodecim 124: 1161-7
• Lapsen uni (lastennla ikäiseen liittyvät asiat + unen rakenne + unihäiriöt) https://thl.fi/fi/web/lapset-nuoret-ja-perheet/hyvinvointi-ja-terveys/lapsen-uni
• Unen ja unirytmin häiriöt. Opaskirja pshp:n lastenneuvoloiden ja Kouluterveydenhuollon käyttöön. www.pshp.fi , myös pdf moodlessa
• Salpa (2007) Liikkumisen kehitys – ensimmäinen ikävuosi. Tammi.
• Karies –käypähoito
• Lasten myrkytykset (kaikki osat) www.terveyskirjasto.fi / LÄÄKEHIILEN ANTAMINEN: http://www.hus.fi/sairaanhoito/sairaanhoitopalvelut/myrkytystietokeskus/Sivut/Laakehiilenantaminen.aspx MYRKYTYSEPÄILY LAPSELLA : Myrkytysepäily lapsella Lääkärikirja Duodecim, 4.12.2016, lastentautien erikoislääkäri Hannu Jalanko
• kotitapaturma.fi – lasten ja vauvojen tapaturmat : (IKÄRYHMÄTIETOA ja tapaturmatyypit, tarkistuslistat alle 1-v, 1-3-v, 4-6-v)
• Hoitosuositus: lasten kaltoinkohtelu
• Koliikki vauvalla. Lääkärikirja Duodecim 2.12.2017 lastentautien erikoislääkäri Hannu Jalanko

Student workload

3op = 81 tuntia, josta 16 tuntia toteutuu verkko-opetuksena. Itsenäistä työskentelyä 65 tuntia.

Content scheduling