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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
Teachers
Mari Laaksonen
Paula Pajunen
Person in charge
Mari Laaksonen
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

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.

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