KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
Describe the legislation that regulates family law, parental responsibility, guardianship, consent to care, the intervention of the public authority in favor of minors.
Describe the physiological and pathological characteristics of the newborn, the mother-child dyad nursing care.
Describe the most common incidents of accidents in the child, the
causes, risk situations and methods of prevention.
Define the needs and priorities as well as the main assistance interventions in the most frequent pathological conditions of the child.
Describe the main nursing models for taking care of the child/adolescent and his/her family.
Describe the peculiarities and methods for safe drug therapy for the newborn and child/adolescent.
ABILITY TO APPLY KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
Identify basic nursing care problems and define the care priorities of the newborn/child/adolescent in the hospital and community settings.
Apply systematic assessment and surveillance of real and risk problems in the newborn/child/adolescent with health problems.
Plan care centered on the care needs of the newborn/child/adolescent and his/her family according to a multidimensional approach.
Facilitate the bio-physical and psycho-social adaptation processes that the newborn/child/adolescent with health problems faces and activate support strategies in ineffective adaptation processes.
Analyze and apply the concept of assistance according to some assistance models of taking charge.
AUTONOMY OF JUDGMENT
Define and pursue educational goals relating to a healthy lifestyle, the therapeutic program and the identification of complications, taking into account the cultural differences and learning abilities of the child/adolescent and his/her family.
Use strategies to encourage decision-making autonomy and family independence in the health choices of the newborn/child/adolescent.
Recognize personalized care pathways by establishing the care priorities of the newborn/child/adolescent, his/her family through a scientific problem solving approach.
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Learn appropriate terminology for effective communication with the newborn/child/adolescent and their family.
Know how to communicate effectively and non-confrontationally with the newborn/child/adolescent and family using appropriate verbal and nonverbal techniques.
Know how to use the techniques of the helping relationship appropriately.
Know how to modulate communication methods in care settings.
Support the child/adolescent and his family in the self-management of care problems of medium-low complexity.
LEARNING ABILITY
Develop independent study skills.

There are no prerequisites and propaedeutics.

- Organization of care and care models.
- Family and newborn/child protection legislation.
- Illness and hospitalization.
- Newborn care.
- Detection of vital and auxological parameters.
- Early recognition of clinical worsening.
- Nursing care for the newborn/child with the most frequent alterations/problems.
- Main care procedures.
- Nursing pain management.
- Nursing management of drug therapy.
- Domestic and school accidents.
- Palliative care.

The teaching material will be made available to the students.
Books to be consulted only for further information:
- Badon P, Cesaro S. Assistenza infermieristica in pediatria. Seconda edizione. Milano: Casa Editrice Ambrosiana; 2015;
- Badon P. Procedure infermieristiche in area pediatrica. Milano: Casa Editrice Ambrosiana; 2021;
- Chohan ND, Munden J, Henry K, editors. Pediatric nursing. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2007;
- Glasper E, Richardson J. A textbook of children’s and young people’s nursing. Philadelphia: Churchill Livingstone Elsevier; 2006;
- Marchioni G, Salerno S, Scalorbi S, Quarella P. Infermieristica in area materno-infantile. Milano: McGraw-Hill; 2014;
- Muscari ME. Pediatric nursing. 4th edition. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2004.

- Progetto Obiettivo Materno Infantile (POMI), levels of care in the maternal-infantile environment and network of pediatric care.
- Models of care in pediatrics: "Family Centered Care" and "Patient Centered Care" and "Atraumatic care": definition, principles, applications in the neonatal and pediatric field.
- Legislation for the protection of the family and of the newborn/child in need of care (Universal Declaration of the Rights of the Child, Convention on the Rights of the Child and Adolescent, Charter of the Rights of the Child in the Hospital).
- Newborn/child illness and hospitalization: effects, variables that influence the different reactions, involvement and adaptation of the family.
- Nursing care for the newborn.
- Detection of vital and auxological parameters in newborns and infants: methods of detection, normal range.
- Early recognition of clinical worsening and its management in the newborn/child/family.
- Nursing care for the newborn/child with the most frequent alterations/problems (newborn/child with fever and/or febrile convulsions, dehydration, breathing problems, vomiting, diarrhea, constipation and urinary tract infections).
- Main care procedures in neonatal and pediatric settings.
- Nursing pain management: methods of pain detection through heteroassessment scales, self-assessment, physiological and behavioral parameters, non-pharmacological interventions to prevent and treat pain, methods of use of prescribed drugs in the execution of the most common procedures and management of effects collateral.
- Nursing management of drug therapy in pediatric age: calculation of dosages, routes of administration, use of distraction and nonpharmacological techniques.
- Domestic and school accidents in childhood: risk factors, prevention, nursing management.
- Palliative care in neonatal and pediatric settings: definition, types of needs, intervention models.

Frontal lessons with the use of multimedia audio-visual tools, with extensive interaction between students and teacher.

- Teaching materials: the teaching materials, which the student will have to consult, will be uploaded to the Microsoft Teams platform.
- Attendance at the course: attendance at the Integrated Course is compulsory. Those who have attended at least 75% of the lessons of the Integrated Course are admitted to the exam.
- Student reception: reception before and between lessons, or by appointment.
- Contact details:
Dr. Sara Buchini
Institute for Maternal and Child Health - IRCCS Burlo Garofolo
mobile phone +393341142531
e-mail: sara.buchini@burlo.trieste.it

The written test consists of 15 multiple choice questions with only one correct answer and 3 open-ended questions. Test duration max 40 minutes. The final grade is expressed in thirtieths according to the criteria below.
- Section with multiple choice questions with only one correct answer: 1 point if the student answers correctly, 0 points if he/she does not answer or if the answer is incorrect.
- Section with open-ended questions: max 5 points for each closed answer if the student demonstrates that he/she has acquired excellent knowledge of the topic covered and has answered exhaustively and with excellent language skills; a score lower than 5 is also expected for open answers (up to 1 point if the answer is incomplete, only partially correct and the topic is presented in a confused manner and with little or no linguistic ability, 0 points if/ student does not respond or does not demonstrate acceptable knowledge of the contents).

This teaching explores topics closely related to one or more objectives of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development of the United Nations.