The graduate profile is structured in specific competencies of nursing professionals which are care, care management. The graduate of the Pediatric Nursing specialty will be a highly competitive professional leader capable of assessing the needs and health problems in the field of pediatrics, implementing nursing care processes that meet the individual needs of the child through a proactive, resolute and humane attitude that will allow the child to have a better quality of life in their different environments.
PEDIATRIC NURSING SPECIALTY COMPETENCIES
Pediatric Nursing Care
Integrate knowledge, skills and attitudes in the holistic care provided to children in their different stages of life in the health-illness process, promoting their biopsychosocial wellbeing.
Indicators
- Participate as an educational agent for the child's family to promote health.
- Implements educational care guides for parents and older children.
- Performs assessment of healthy and sick children.
- Safely administers and administers drugs in the treatment of pediatric patients.
- Recognizes and respects the spiritual needs of the family and the patient.
- Applies quality indicators in the integral care of the child.
- Performs invasive and noninvasive monitoring in the pediatric patient.
- Applies the nursing care process in the care of healthy, sick and critically ill children in their different stages of life.
- Performs hemodynamic assessment of the critically ill patient.
- Applies knowledge and skills of basic and advanced pediatric CPR.
The graduate of the Pediatric Nursing Specialty will have the following profile:
KNOWLEDGE
- Theoretical basis for decision making in the care of pediatric patients in their different stages of life.
- Play techniques for the growth and development of children in their different stages of life.
- Theoretical on physiopathology of the main health problems, by apparatus and systems that affect children in their different stages of life.
- Health problems in the critically ill patient.
- Theoretical and methodological instruments that support the nursing care process.
- Of the principles applied to the administration and administration of medicines.
- Of the scientific method applied to the study of the health problems of the child population.
- Of the official standards that support quality and safety in pediatric patients.
SKILLS
- Leader in the field of pediatric patient health.
- Critical thinking for problem analysis and decision making.
- Resolute in the face of problems presented in pediatric patient care.
- Promotes continuing education in health promotion and care.
- Provides environments that ensure the child's safety.
- Handling of electro-medical devices used in pediatric patient care.
- Execution of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures and techniques used in the care of hospitalized pediatric patients with medical and surgical problems.
- Performs its own self-learning.
- Develops an intervention project.
ATTITUDES AND VALUES
- Entrepreneur in his field of action.
- Critical and proactive with respect to health problems in children in their different stages of life and their repercussions on their environment.
- Of service to treat the child and his family.
- Promotion of effective communication and good human relations.
- Ethics.
- Commitment.
- Solidarity.
- Respect.
- Honesty.
- Responsibility.