Teaching provides students with knowledge to deliver effective care in the most frequent health problems in the Pediatric area. The student, at the end of the Teaching, is able to:
To ascertain the needs of the child and the family during the perinatal period; Describe the stages of child development to adolescence and the criteria for the recognition of a normal cognitive, affective and psychomotor development; Identify criteria for observing, conducting objective examination and detecting vital parameters in pediatric age; To ascertain and treat the most frequent nursing problems in the pediatric age (fever, pain, gastro-intestinal diseases, respiratory, infectious diseases, exanthematics, Poisonings, accidental pathologies, Diabetes, Mistreatment,epilepsy ); ascertain and activate strategies to determine a safe child growth environment; to describe the organizational models in the pediatric area, the structural characteristics and the modalities of intervention and the strategies of active involvement of the parents in the assistance.