Public Health Nursing: Child and Family Health Care (3 cr)
Code: 7K00GD45-3002
General information
- Enrolment period
- 10.02.2025 - 20.04.2025
- Registration for the implementation has ended.
- Timing
- 21.04.2025 - 25.05.2025
- Implementation has ended.
- Credits
- 3 cr
- Virtual portion
- 3 cr
- Mode of delivery
- Online learning
- Unit
- Emergency Care, Midwifery, Public Health Nursing
- Campus
- TAMK Main Campus
- Teaching languages
- Finnish
- Seats
- 0 - 40
- Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Nursing and Health Care, Public Health Nursing
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
19.2-
Exam schedules
Exam tentti: 19-24.5. 2025 varaa aika 1.5 h (115min) sinulle lähimmästä yliopiston tai amk:n exam tilasta.
I uusinta elokuussa, II uusinta lokakuussa
Assessment scale
0-5
Teaching methods
Keskusteluluennot, itsenäinen työskentely, pienryhmä- ja työpajatyöskentely verkossa. Orientaatio 19.2.2025, pakollinen läsnäolo. Työpajatyöskentely pakollinen. 75% luennoista pitää olla paikalla.
Learning materials
Luennot ja moodlessa oleva materiaali +
• NEUKO-tietokanta
- määräaikaistarkastukset
- terveystarkastusten menetelmät: verenkiertoelimistö, näkö ja kuulo, neurologis-kognitiivinen kehitys, hyvinvointi ja terveystottumukset, kasvu, psykososiaalinen kehitys, kokonaisarvio
• THL. 2016. Syödään yhdessä - ruokasuositukset lapsiperheille. (neuvolaikäisen osalta)
• 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
• Salpa (2007) Liikkumisen kehitys – ensimmäinen ikävuosi. Tammi.
• Karies –käypähoito
• Myrkytykset, Ensiapuopas: www.terveyskirjasto.fi / Castren ym. 2022
• Lääkehiilen antaminen: Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3DsI9K5d_s
• kotitapaturma.fi – Ikäryhmät (lasten ja vauvojen tapaturmat), tarkistuslistat (alle 1-v, 1-3-v, 4-6-v), tapaturmatyypit
• 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.
Completion alternatives
Ei ole.
Practical training and working life cooperation
Opintojaksoon liittyy erillinen harjoittelu neuvolassa.
International connections
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Further information
Toteutussuunnitelma täsmentyy orientaatiossa.