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Health Care Practice Among Families with Children (5 cr)

Code: UHV22HV04-3001

General information


Enrollment

02.07.2025 - 31.07.2025

Timing

01.08.2025 - 31.12.2025

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Unit

Faculty of Health and Welfare

Teaching languages

  • Svenska

Degree programmes

  • Degree Programme in Public Health Nursing

Teachers

  • Lilian Nordell
  • Jaana-Sofia Tengström

Teacher in charge

Jaana-Sofia Tengström

Groups

  • UHV22D-Å
    Hälsovårdare (YH), h22, dagstudier, Åbo

Objective

The student:
- can plan, implement and evaluate the follow-up of a child’s growth and development liaising with the family
- can support the parents in their parenthood and can guide, with sustainable resource promoting methods, the parents and their child towards a healthy lifestyle
- can assess the child’s and family’s need of additional support and further treatment

Content

The service system and service environments for families with children

The child's growth and development

Health examinations, screenings, supervision

Guidance and resource enhancing methods

Group activities

Client / patient involvement

Multicultural work

Children in need of extra support and further investigations

Child protection

Evaluation scale

H-5

Qualifications

It is recommended that students have completed 180 credits