Pediatric Nursing: Developmental Assessment and Family Education

Course Purpose

This course provides an overview of pediatric milestones, recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics screening for developmental and autism screening, and common childhood illnesses.

Continuing Education Credit Designation

This educational activity is credited for 3 contact hours at completion of the activity.

Overview

3 contact hours nursing continuing education course: Pediatric Nursing: Developmental Assessment and Family Education.

Objectives

Upon completion of this independent study, the learner will be able to:

1. Define developmental surveillance as the retrieved review defines it and state when it is performed.
2. State the reported American Academy of Pediatrics screening recommendation for developmental and autism screening ages.
3. Explain how milestones are interpreted for a premature infant, using the retrieved review's own worked example.
4. Distinguish a specific delay from a global delay as the retrieved review distinguishes them.
5. Explain why the retrieved review calls language the most salient of the five areas of development to assess.
6. State the reasons the retrieved review gives for delays being missed, and what that implies for routine surveillance.
7. State the accepted definitions of failure to thrive reported by the retrieved review.
8. Name the four traditional vital signs and state which the retrieved review calls the least reliably measured.
9. State the reported respiratory rate threshold that was the strongest single-parameter predictor of life-threatening adverse events.
10. Explain why the retrieved review says respiratory rate must be counted rather than estimated visually.
11. Describe what an Early Warning Score system does according to the retrieved review.
12. State the retrieved severity bands for paediatric dehydration and the signs reported at each level.
13. Explain why infants lose relatively more body weight at the same level of dehydration, using the retrieved total body water figures.
14. State how the fluid deficit is calculated in the retrieved review and why the calculation is often not possible.
15. Identify hypotension and shock as late signs of dehydration and state what the retrieved review says they indicate.
16. State the most common cause of bronchiolitis, the age group most affected and the reported incidence and hospitalisation figures.
17. State how the retrieved review says bronchiolitis is managed and what it says about specific medications.
18. Describe the presentation of croup, its most common viral cause and the conditions the retrieved review says must first be excluded.
19. State what the retrieved review reports about corticosteroid and epinephrine use in croup, without prescribing either.
20. Define asthma as the retrieved review defines it and state what a confirmed diagnosis relies on.
21. Describe how pain severity is assessed according to the retrieved review, including what the visual analogue scale is.
22. State the reported consequences of inadequate pain control and of optimised control.
23. Describe sentinel injuries and suspicious bruising as the retrieved abuse review describes them.
24. State what the retrieved review reports about abusive head trauma, including its presentations and associated findings.
25. Explain why the absence of bruising does not exclude abuse according to the retrieved review.
26. Describe the teach-back and show-me methods and state what they are checking when a caregiver is taught.

Who this course is for:

Advanced Practice Registered Nurses, registered nurses, licensed practical or vocational nurses, and other healthcare providers in any setting who want continuing education on Pediatric Nursing: Developmental Assessment and Family Education.

Course outline

12 sections · finish in any order across devices

1. 1

   Course overview and learning objectives

2. 2

   Introduction

3. 3

   Development, surveillance and the delay that is easy to miss

4. 4

   Growth, feeding and weight faltering

5. 5

   Vital signs in children: what is measured, and what is measured badly

6. 6

   Dehydration: grading it, and recognising the late signs

7. 7

   Bronchiolitis: the common illness that occasionally is not

8. 8

   Croup and asthma: noisy breathing that means different things

9. 9

   Pain in children: assessing it, and the cost of getting it wrong

10. 10

    Recognising possible physical abuse, and teaching families well

11. 11

    Nursing Considerations

12. 12

    Conclusion

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