Introduction to the Nursing Care of Families with Infants and Children

"A person’s a person, no matter how small" Dr. Seuss (1954)

Overview | Learning Resources | Learning Outcomes | E-textbook Chapters | Recommended Self-Learning Processes | Additional Resources | Refection Moment | References

Overview

Your Licensed Practical Nursing (LPN) educational program introduced you to and prepared you to provide Pediatric Nursing care within the scope of your LPN practice. The purpose of the Nursing Care of Families with Infants and Children module is to create a framework for you to review Pediatric Nursing care, add to your learning in this area, prepare for Post-LPN to BN clinical practice involving families with infants and children, and to help you prepare for the NCLEX-RN examination.

This module is designed as a self-study module; there are no required assignments.

Learning Resources

Pediatric Nursing Demystified

Pediatric Nursing Demystified is an e-textbook available in the Athabasca University library (Johnson & Keogh, 2009). This e-textbook consists of 15 chapters with NCLEX-RN type of exam questions at the end of each chapter.

Access the home page of the AU Library http://library.athabascau.ca/
Enter “Pediatric Nursing Demystified” in the search engine

Or try this link:
http://0-site.ebrary.com.aupac.lib.athabascau.ca/lib/athabasca/detail.action?docID=10355313

Additional Learning Resources

Additional learning resources (e.g. videos, journal articles, and other scholarly print sources) are provided. Many of these are open educational resources (OER). OER include written and multimedia content and they are free to use and share. You are also given ideas for search terms to help increase your digital literacy in locating current, credible answers to nursing care questions.

You may be a learner who enjoys having a printed textbook to supplement these resources. Your local library may have a current textbook created for a nursing audience or you can purchase one from an online or traditional bookstore. Choose a current and preferably Canadian textbook if you decide to purchase one.

Learning Outcomes

After completing this learning module students will meet or exceed the following:

  1. Develop honest self-assessment skills related to nursing care of families with infants and children.
  2. Hone self-study skills to fill self-identified knowledge gaps regarding nursing care of families with infants and children.
  3. Achieve 100% on routine and final checkup self-assessments for each chapter in the Johnson and Keogh (2009) e-textbook.
  4. Achieve 100% on the final exam in the Johnson and Keogh (2009) e-textbook.
  5. Locate additional relevant OER for ongoing learning related to nursing care of families with infants and children.
  6. Develop digital literacy skills related to locating and accessing OER.

eTextbook Chapters

  1. Family and Community
  2. Growth and Development
  3. Pediatric Assessment
  4. Head and Neck
  5. Respiratory Conditions
  6. Cardiovascular Conditions
  7. The Hematologic System
  8. Oncology Conditions
  9. Endocrine and Metabolic Conditions
  10. Neurologic Conditions
  11. Gastrointestinal Conditions
  12. Genitourinary Conditions
  13. Musculoskeletal Conditions
  14. Infections and Communicable Conditions
  15. Integumentary Conditions

Recommended Self-Learning Process

Consider using the following self-learning process in order to enhance your knowledge of nursing care of families with infants and children.

Step 1 - Access the Johnson and Keogh (2009) e-textbook and systematically go through each chapter in the following way:

  1. Review the chapter learning outcomes. Make notes of content you need to learn about in greater detail.
  2. Skim through the chapter and answer the Routine Checkup and Final Checkup questions for that chapter (the answers are located at the end of each chapter).
  3. Review content in the chapter based on the learning outcomes, your notes, and questions you answered incorrectly on the Routine Checkup and Final Checkup.
  4. Redo the Final Checkup in the chapter.
  5. Repeat this process with all of the chapters in Johnson and Keogh (2009).
  6. After completing all of the units in Johnson and Keogh (2009) complete the comprehensive Final Exam at the end of the textbook (answers are located after the final exam).

Step 2 - Further your learning with OER.

  1. Access OER provided on the “additional OER resources” list to help address identified knowledge gaps.
  2. Locate and review OER on content areas self-identified as most deficient.
  3. Share current, credible and scholarly OER in the Repository of Resources Forum.

Step 3 - Optional: If you have a NCLEX RN study resource, such as PassPoint, use it to review questions related to pediatric nursing. Information on the purchase of PassPoint is located in the NCLEX RN module in moodle (FAQ). Sign in to PassPoint NCLEX-RN (or other study resource of your choosing).

  1. Construct practice quizzes and do practice questions of all types related to pediatric nursing to solidify your comprehensive knowledge.
  2. Continue to do questions until you reach the suggested mastery level.

Additional Resources

The following online resources (some OER) might help you address your self-assessed knowledge gaps related to nursing care of the families with infants and children.

American Nursing Association. http://www.aacn.nche.edu/webinars/topics

Canadian Nurses’ Association. Specialty areas: Critical care pediatric nurses certification. Retrieved from https://cna-aiic.ca/en/certification/exam-preparation/specialtyassociations

CBC World News. (2015). Ghana: How Canada is scaling up pediatric nursing to save lives. Retrieved from http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ghana-how-canada-is-scaling-up-pediatric-nursing-to-save-little-lives-1.3020564

Government of Canada (2015). Health, healthy living, immunization and vaccines, vaccination for children. Retrieved from https://www.canada.ca/en/publichealth/
topics/immunization-vaccines.html

Health Canada. (2012). First nations and Inuit health, health care services, nursing. Clinical practice guidelines for nurses in primary care: Pediatric and adolescent care. Retrieved from http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fniah-spnia/services/nurs-infirm/clini/pediat/index-eng.php

Public Health Agency of Canada (2012).  Health promotion: Childhood and adolescence. Retrieved from http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/hp-ps/dca-dea/index-eng.php

Prescriptive Learning for All Nurses (2014). Nursing care of children: Endocrine - type 1 diabetes [video]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzTzD0lx9Xw

Prescriptive Learning for all Nurses (2014). Nursing care of children: Neurosensory- cerebral palsy.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04IhhzfgItQ

Search Terms to Consider Using

The following search terms might be a good starting point to find OER that will help you with your knowledge gaps:

    1. ‘pediatric nursing care,’
    2. ‘nursing care of children,’
    3. ‘nursing care of infants’
    4. ‘nursing care of teenagers’
    5. ‘prescriptive learning for all nurses’ - ‘XXX’ (name of disease of condition)
    6. ‘integumentary conditions in children’ - ‘XXX’ (name of disease or condition)
    7. ‘cardiac conditions in infants’ - ‘XXX’ (name of disease or condition)

The following sites have excellent profession, current online resources on the topic of nursing care of families with infants and children:

Reflection Moment

Watch this video story of a pediatric nurse who was once a pediatric patient.

Former Children's Hospital Patient Becomes a Pediatric Nurse

Or this video of a pediatric cancer patient who created the "bald board."

Tell Me a Story: Cancer Patient Inspires Pediatric Oncologist

Talk to a friend or colleague about what the video revealed to you about caring for pediatric patients.

References

Dr. Seuss (1954).  Horton hears a who. New York, NY: Random House.

Johnson, J. Y., & Keogh, J. (2009). Pediatric nursing demystified. Columbus, OH: McGraw-Hill. Retrieved from http://0-site.ebrary.com.aupac.lib.athabascau.ca/lib/athabasca/detail.action?docID=10355313

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