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Full-Term and Pre-Term Newborn Care and Family

Code: 108306
Credits: 3
2026/2027
Degree programme Type Course
Nursing OP 4

Contact lecturer

Name :
Juan Oso Moran
Email :
juan.deloso@uab.cat

Group languages

You can consult this information at the end of the document.

Prerequisites

There are no established prerequisites, but it is recommended to have passed the subject "Nursing in Children, Adolescence and Women".

Objectives

The subject is scheduled in the fourth year of the Nursing Degree and is part of the group of subjects oriented to pediatric care, of optional training.

The general objectives are:

• Study the term and preterm newborn from birth, emphasizing adaptation to extrauterine life and development in situations of risk and neonatal disease.

• Apply the main nursing tools that contribute to the improvement of clinical practice in specialized neonatal care, in the hospital setting.

Specifically, the following objectives will be worked on:

• Plan the care process for the term and preterm newborn, using the NIDCAP model and correctly applying the stages of the nursing process (assessment, diagnosis, planning, execution and evaluation).

• Describe the most used health education models in neonatology, identifying the objectives oriented towards the training of families (bonding, breastfeeding, basic care and continuity of care).

• Select appropriate care plans to intervene on the stress of the baby and his family in the face of neonatal hospitalization, especially in intensive or intermediate care units, justifying them with scientific evidence.

• Analyze the concept of neonatal palliative care from a nursing model, identifying the interventions that guarantee the comfort, pain control and quality of life of the baby and support for the family.

• Analyze the interventions included in the neonatal care plans, justifying their relevance in relation to the selected nursing model and the specific needs of the baby (prematurity, respiratory pathology, infectious, etc.).

• Select the most appropriate nursing interventions to address the most frequent health problems of the full-term and preterm baby (respiratory adaptation, thermoregulation, feeding, infection, development), justifying them with evidence.

• Analyze care aimed at reducing stress and promoting neurosensory development, including family-centered care, the kangaroo method and developmental care, identifying actions that favor clinical stability and the prevention of complications.

Learning outcomes

  • KM23 (Describe the specifics of care in the neonatal period .) Describe the specifics of care in the neonatal period .
  • KM24 (Describe diseases and health problems in the neonatal period, childhood and adolescence, as well as their most frequent causes and clinical manifestations.) Describe diseases and health problems in the neonatal period, childhood and adolescence, as well as their most frequent causes and clinical manifestations.
  • KM25 (Identify complications derived from health problems, pathologies, diagnostic tests and treatments applied to people in the neonatal period, childhood and adolescence.) Identify complications derived from health problems, pathologies, diagnostic tests and treatments applied to people in the neonatal period, childhood and adolescence.
  • SM20 (Analyse the data collected in the assessment of the person in the neonatal period, childhood and adolescence with diseases or health problems to identify their care needs.) Analyse the data collected in the assessment of the person in the neonatal period, childhood and adolescence with diseases or health problems to identify their care needs.
  • SM21 (Plan nursing interventions to promote, maintain or restore health during the neonatal period, childhood, and adolescence.) Plan nursing interventions to promote, maintain or restore health during the neonatal period, childhood, and adolescence.
  • SM22 (Design health promotion and education strategies targeted at parents or the main caregivers of people in the neonatal period, childhood and adolescence.) Design health promotion and education strategies targeted at parents or the main caregivers of people in the neonatal period, childhood and adolescence.
  • SM23 (Apply techniques and procedures related to nursing care to people in the neonatal period, childhood and adolescence with diseases or health problems, based on the available scientific evidence.) Apply techniques and procedures related to nursing care to people in the neonatal period, childhood and adolescence with diseases or health problems, based on the available scientific evidence.

Contents

• Adaptation to extrauterine life

• NIDCAP methodology

• Nursing care of the hospitalized term infant and his family.

• Nursing care of the premature and high-risk infant and his family.

• Communication and emotional support for the family of a hospitalized infant.

• Care of the infant with respiratory pathology.

• Care of the infant with digestive pathology.

• Care of the infant with nephrological pathology.

• Care of the infant with neurological pathology.

• Care of the infant undergoing surgery.

• Care of the infant with oncohematological pathology.

• Pain in neonatology.


Advanced clinical skills practices (PHCAs). Contents:

• NIDCAP (Neonatal Individualized Developmental Care and Assessment Program).

• Neonatal techniques and interventions I


Group Work. Cases:

• Extreme Prematurity

• Hyaline Membrane Disease

• Necrotizing Enterocolitis

• Neonatal Withdrawal Syndrome

• Others

Learning activities and methodology

Title Hours ECTS Learning outcomes
ELABORATION OF WORK / PERSONAL STUDY / READING OF ARTICLES 49 1.96
THEORI AND CLINICAL CASES 20 0.8 KM23, KM24, KM25, SM20, SM21, SM22, SM23
PRACTICES OF ADVANCED CLINICAL SKILLS (PHCA) 6 0.24 SM23

The methodology used will be:

  • Expository classes with the purpose of explaining the most current evidence, clarifying doubts and relating concepts where students have greater difficulty.
  • Consolidation of the key concepts of each topic through various Gamification formulas.
  • Group presentations: realization and presentation of a pediatric nursing clinical situation in the field of childhood, adolescence hospitalized for critical illness, newborns and other health problems prevalent in childhood and/or a situation pediatric nursing clinic.
  • Practices of advanced clinical skills and clinical simulation of cases: in order to carry out certain procedures and the application of different protocols, and clinical guides procedures in nursing care to attend to children admitted to pediatric units.
  • Individualized tutorials: specific tutorials can be specified by contacting the teacher beforehand by e-mail.

For this subject, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies is permitted exclusively in support tasks, as a complementary method in bibliographic or information searches, text correction or translations. The student must clearly identify which parts have been generated with this technology, specify the tools used and include a critical reflection on how these have influenced the process and the final result of the activity. The lack of transparency in the use of AI in this assessable activity will be considered a lack of academic honesty and may lead to a partial or total penalty in the grade of the activity, or greater sanctions in serious cases.

Note: 15 minutes of a class will be set aside, within the calendar established by the center/degree, for students to fill in the teacher performance and subject evaluation surveys /module.

Annotation: within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.

Annotation: within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.

Assessment

Continuous assessment activities

Title Weight Hours ECTS Learning outcomes
WRITTEN WORKS 35% 0 0 KM23, KM24, KM25, SM20, SM21, SM22
PRACTICES OF ADVANCED CLINICAL SKILLS 15% 0 0 SM23
EXAME 50% 0 0 KM23, KM24, KM25, SM20, SM21, SM22

This subject does not provide for the single assessment system

The assessment system is organized into several assessment activities distributed throughout the course:

  1. Realization and presentation of a pediatric nursing clinical situation (represents 20% of the final grade), in the field of childhood and adolescence in hospitalization for critical, chronic illness or palliative care. This activity is group. The evaluation process will be through 2 formative evaluation rubrics: a written presentation rubric and an oral presentation rubric.
  2. Written test that represents 50% of the final grade of the subject. This test assesses the ability to apply knowledge in the care of healthy children, as well as to organize and integrate ideas and information.
  3. Advanced clinical skills practices (PHCAs). The previous preparation, attendance, attitude and participation of the students will be assessed, as well as the preparation of supporting notes. It will be evaluated using a formative evaluation rubric. They represent 15% of the final grade of the subject.
  4. Completion of a written work related to pediatric nursing practice in hospital care carried out under an intersectionality analysis and from a gender perspective. It represents 15% of the final grade of the subject.

OBTAINING THE FINAL QUALIFICATION:

The requirement for obtaining the final grade through continuous assessment is to have attended all the assessed parts and to have passed them with a grade of 5 or higher.

The student who does not have at least 4 of the 5 advanced clinical skills practices (PHCAs) scheduled will be considered non-evaluable through continuous assessment.

In order to participate in the recovery process, the student must have previously been assessed in a set of activities whose weight is equivalent to a minimum of 55% of the subject's total grade.

Students who do not complete both the theoretical and practical assessment tests will be considered "Not Assessable", exhausting their rights to register for the subject.

Students who have not completed all of the advanced clinical skills practices (PHCAs) will be considered "Not Assessable" through continuous assessment.


The final grade of the subject will be the weighted average of the different parts that make it up.

According to agreement 4.4 of the Governing Council 17/11/2010 of the evaluation regulations, the grades will be:

From 0 to 4.9 = Suspension

From 5.0 to 6.9 = Passed

From 7.0 to 8.9 = Remarkable

From 9.0 to 10 = Excellent

From 9.0 to 10 Honors Matriculation (will be awarded to those students who have obtained the best total grades greater than or equal to 9, within the quota of 5% of students enrolled in the subject).


The student has the right to review the evaluations. For this purpose, the date will be determined on the virtual campus.

The assessment of special and particular situations will be assessed by an assessment committee set up for that purpose.

Bibliography

In line with the methodology used, independent resolution of clinical cases based on theory and, given that one of the general skills that the student is expected to acquire is that of developing strategies for independent learning, no bibliography is specified. The student must become competent in the search and management of information.

Software

Bibliographic Manager: Mendeley

Course groups and languages

The information provided is provisional until November 30. After this date, you will be able to consult the language of each group through this link. To access the information, you will need to enter the course CODE

Type of teaching Group Language Semester Shift
(TE) Theory 301 Catalan annual morning-mixed
(PHCA) Pràctica d’habilitats clíniques avançades (en humans) 301 Catalan annual morning-mixed
(TE) Theory 501 Catalan annual morning-mixed
(PHCA) Pràctica d’habilitats clíniques avançades (en humans) 501 Catalan annual morning-mixed
(TE) Theory 601 Catalan annual morning-mixed
(PHCA) Pràctica d’habilitats clíniques avançades (en humans) 681 Catalan annual morning-mixed