To familiarize a student with basic knowledge in general paediatrics
To familiarize a student with usage of paediatrics
To show to students the nurses’ role in curing of paediatric patients
To familiarize students with characteristics of children’s body systems
To familiarize students with most significant diseases and children’s disorders
Protection of mother and a child, and vital static data important for Croatia
Children’s accident
Diet and infections of children’s urinary system
Anomalies and infections of children’s urinary system
New-born diseases
Children’s respiratory system infections
Convulsive syndrome and epilepsies
Pituitary glad disorder, thyroid and parathyroid diseases
Monogenic and polygenic congenital disorders, chromosomic anomalies, prenatal embryo damage, development anomalies of brain and scalp
Brain tumours and craniocerebral injuries
Non-neuromuscular and heredodegenerative diseases
Metabolism diseases Ca and rickets
Diseases of children’s skeletal system
Development of personality of haematological children’s system
Children’s psychomotor development
Specifics of haematological children’s system
Perinatal brain damages – children’s cerebral palsy
Vitamins and trace elements in diet
Immunity and children’s immunodeficiency
Laboratory diagnosis of heart diseases
Neonatal jaundice
Antenatal and postnatal diagnosis of congenital diseases
Genetic advisory centre
Fiver – meaning and procedure
Sudden infant death syndrome
Prevention of preventable diseases
Reanimation principles, intensive monitoring, and monitoring of severely sick child
Congenital and acquired heart disease
Heart failure syndrome
ADHD
Children’s rheumatic diseases
Pericarditis, myocarditis, endocarditis
Children’s diabetes
Liver diseases, pancreas diseases, and gallbladder diseases
Malabsorption syndrome
Red blood cell diseases
Constipation
Peptic ulcer disease
Chronical gastrointestinal diseases
Blood clotting disorders
Puberty, sexual development disorders
Children’s urolithiasis
White blood cell diseases
Children’s tuberculosis
Cystic fibrosis
Orthopaedic problems in children’s age
Birth damages of children
Perinatal asphyxia
New-born classification based on gestational age and birth mass – specific problems and health consequences
Children’s psychosomatic diseases
Chronic sick child, approach to child and family
Vaccination
Obavezna literatura:
- Mardešić D. Pedijatrija. Zagreb: Školska knjiga; 2003.
- Juretić M, Balarin L. Pedijatrija za više medicinske sestre. Split: Klinička bolnica Split; 1995.
Dopunska literatura:
- Meštrović J, i sur. Hitna stanja u djece. Zagreb: Medicinska naklada; 2011.
- Kliegman RM, Stanton BF. Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics. 18. izd. Philadelphia, SAD: W.B. Saunders company; 2007.
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Explain the basic principles in the field of pediatrics
- Apply the principles of pediatrics in physiotherapeutic procedures
- Recognize and explain the peculiarities of the functioning of the child's organism (specifics of the organism in psychomotor growth and development, peculiarities of the development of the musculoskeletal and nervous system)
- Recognize and explain the features of diseases and disorders in children
