Section Name Description
1.1 - Role of Pediatric Nurse URL Evidence-Based Practice: Nursing: What is EBP?

Read the entire page. (2 minutes)

Cleveland Clinic

URL Patient Advocacy From the Clinical Nurses' Viewpoint: A Qualitative Study

Read the Introduction and Result. (14 minutes)

Journal of medical ethics and history of medicine

URL Safety First: A Nurse’s Guide to Promoting Safety Measures Throughout the Lifespan

Read the Newborns and Infants, Toddlers, Preschoolers, School-aged children, and Adolescents. (7 minutes)

Nurses Lab

URL Mental Health Counselling

Read the entire article. (3 minutes)

NHS

URL Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)

Read the table containing Evidence-Based practice. (2 minutes)

Qsen Institute

URL What You Need to Know Before Becoming A Pediatric Nurse

Read the entire article. (12 minutes)

Rasmussen University

URL The Role of Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing

Read the entire page. (6 minutes)

USAHS- University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

URL Topic: Role of Pediatric Nurse
1.2 - Concept of Family and Its Influence on Child Health URL Definition of Family

Read the whole article. (4 minutes)

Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S Department of Health and Human Services

URL Family Structures and Roles

Open ‘Child Growth and Development' and read about family structures from pages 311-316. (13 minutes)

‘Child Growth and Development - ECE 101’ by College of the Canyons

URL 'Grandparents'

Read the article from section ‘Becoming a grandparent’ to ‘Grandparents as parents’. (12 minutes)

Association of Child Psychotherapists

URL Role of Grandparents

Read the fourth and fifth paragraphs of the section ‘Conditions for and consequences of grandparent involvement’. (3 minutes)

Journal of Academy of Social Sciences

URL Who Is Considered a Parent?

Read the entire article. (2 minutes)

Federal Student Aid, An Office of the U.S. Department Education

URL Duties as Parents

Read the entire article. (3 minutes). 

New South Wales Government

URL 'Parenting Styles'

Read the section ‘Issues of Concern’. (5 minutes)

StatPearls [Internet]

URL Parenting Styles

Read the entire article. (1 minute)

American Psychological Association

URL Genetic and Biological Influences of Family

Identify different diseases that run in the family. (2 minutes)

Genetic Alliance, Washington

URL What Does it Mean if a Mental Disorder Seems to Run in My Family?

Read the entire article. (5 minutes)

American Academy of Pediatrics

URL Prenatal Risk Factors

Read the key points in the box. (1 minute)

Canadian Pediatric Society

URL Pregnancy and Child Health

Read first paragraph of ‘Under-five mortality’. (1 minute)

UNICEF

URL Influence of Families on Children

Read the section ‘How Do Families Influence Child Health?’. (17 minutes)

The Future of Children Journal

URL Family’s Influence in Children

Read from ‘Breastfeeding’ to the second paragraph of ‘Contingent Responsiveness of Parents’. (35 minutes)

‘Parenting Matters: Supporting Parents of Children Ages 0-8’ by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

URL Topic: Concept of Family and Its Influence on Child Health
1.3 - Family-Centered Care URL Family-Centered Care Definition

Read the entire page. (3 minutes)

University of Florida Health

URL 'Family-Centered Care'

Read section ‘Family-Centered Care’. (4 minutes)

Pediatrics and Neonatal Nursing Journal

URL Essentials Elements of Family-Centered Care

Read the section ‘Core Principles of Patient- and Family-Centered Care’. (4 minutes)

Pediatrics Journal

URL 'Elements of Family-Centered Care'

Read the section ‘What is Family-Centered Care?’. (5 minutes)

Maternal and Child Health Journal

URL Incorporating Cultural Diversity

Read from ‘Model Components’ to ‘Discussion’. (11 minutes)

BMC Health Services Research

URL Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN)

Read ‘Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN)’ and ‘Our Approach to CYSHCN’. (2 minutes)

Health Resource & Services Administration, Maternal and Child Health

URL CYSHCN and FCC

Read ‘Definitions’, ‘Macro Level’, and ‘Micro Level’. (5 minutes)

Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

URL Benefits and Barriers to FCC

Read the section ‘Synthesis of Findings’. (13 minutes)

Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing

URL Topic: Family-Centered Care
1.4 - Morbidity and Mortality URL Definition of Mortality

Read the definition for mortality. (1 minute)

National Cancer Institute

URL Definition of Morbidity

Read the first paragraph of section ‘Section 2: Morbidity Frequency Measures’. (1 minute)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

URL Definitions of Indicators of Child Mortality

Read the definitions of different mortality indicators of the sub-section Definition of indicators’ of the section ‘Notes on the data’. (1 minute)

UNICEF

URL Neonatal Mortality

Read the section ‘The neonatal period is the most vulnerable time for a child’. (1 minute)

UNICEF

URL Newborn Mortality

Read the sections ‘Key facts’ and ‘Causes’. (2 minutes)

WHO

URL 'Infant Mortality'

Read the sections ‘About Infant Mortality' and ‘Causes of Infant Mortality. (2 minutes). 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

URL Infant Mortality Global

Read the entire article. (1 minute)

WHO

URL Under-Five Mortality

Read the section ‘Under-five mortality’. (1 minute)

UNICEF

URL Under-Five Mortality and Children (5-9 Years) Mortality

Read the sections ‘Key facts’. (2 minutes)

WHO

URL Causes of Adolescents Mortality

Read the entire section ‘The challenge’. (3 minutes). 

UNICEF

URL Topic: Mortality and Morbidity
1.5 - Ethical Issues in Child and Family Nursing URL 'Ethics'

Read the sections ‘What are ethics?’ and ‘What are applied ethics?’. (5 minutes)

Government of Canada

URL Social and Personal Factors Influence Ethics

Read the entire section of ‘Results’. (12 minutes)

Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine

URL Factors Influencing Ethical Decision Making By Health Professionals

Read the abstract. (1 minute)

Journal of Business Ethics

URL Environmental/Organizational Factors Influencing Ethical Behaviour

Read the section ‘Discussion’. (5 minutes)

Ethics & Behavior Journal

URL Core Principles of Ethics

Read the entire section ‘Overview of Core Ethical Principles in Modern Western Medicine’. (14 minutes)

StatPearls[Internet]

URL 'Beneficence'

Read the abstract. (1 minute)

The American Journal of Bioethics

URL International Council of Nurses

Read pages 7, 8, 12, 15, and 18. (8 minutes)

International Council of Nurses

URL Difference Between Ethical Dilemma and Moral Distress

Read the section ‘The Phenomenon of Moral Distress’. (5 minutes). 

The Online Journal of Issues of Nursinh

URL Ethical Issues and Moral Distress in Child Health

Read the journal article starting from the section ‘Moral distress: barriers to ethical action in pediatric intensive care’,to the section ‘Confronting moral distress and promoting moral courage and resilience - "in our team, everyone has a voice".’. (19 minutes)

Rev Bras Ter Intensiva Journal

URL Ethical Issue in Pediatrics

Read the entire article ‘Doctors share ethical issues that worry them most’. (25 minutes)

Contemporary PEDs Journal

URL Abuse and Neglect in School Children

Read the section ‘Results’. (8 minutes)

Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal

URL Ethical Problems in Pediatrics

Read the section ‘Results’. (7 minutes) 

BMC Medical Ethics

URL Clinical Trials in Children

Read the entire article. (5 minutes)

WHO

URL Topic: Ethical Issues in Child and Family Nursing
2.1 - Growth and Development of Newborn and Infant URL Lifespan Development: A Psychological Perspective (2 Eds.)

Read Chapter 3. (1 hour and 50 minutes)

College of Lake County Foundation

URL Child Growth and Development: ECE 101 (A. Johnson, Ed.)

Read the Developmental Theories of Eriksons, Piaget’s, Sigmund Freud. (30 minutes)

College of the Canyons

URL Role of Nursing Professionals for Parenting Development in Early Childhood: A Systematic Review of Scope

Read Figure number 3. (8 minutes)

NIH: Revista latino-americana de enfermage

URL Topic: Infant & Newborn Growth and Development
URL Newborn Assessment (Head to Toe)
URL How To Measure MUAC (Video)
URL Growth and Development Assessment
URL Assessing Nutritional Health (Video)
URL Nutritional Assessment of Children
2.2 - Growth and Development of Toddler URL Toddler Development

Read the entire page. (7 minutes)

MedlinePlus

URL Toddler (2-4 Years)

Read the entire page. (8 minutes) 

NorthShore University

URL 'Growth and Development'

Read chapter 4 Physical Development of Infant and Toddlers. (20 minutes)

URL Child Development (6) - Two to Three Years

Read the entire page. (4 minutes)

Better Health

URL Every Baby Matters: Guidelines for Good Nutrition in Bradford and Airedale Nutrition and 1-5 Year Old

Read the pages from 1 to 9. (22 minutes)

URL Dietary Recommendations for Healthy Children

Read the entire page. (6 minutes)

American Heart Association

URL Theories of Growth and Development in Pediatrics: A Review Disease

Read the entire page. (15 minutes)

J PaediatrNursSci 

URL Role of Nursing Professionals for Parenting Development in Early Childhood: A Systematic Review of Scope

Read the section “Discussion”. (15 minutes) 

Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

URL Topic: Child Growth and Development Toddlers
URL Growth and Development Assessment
URL How to measure MUAC (Video)
URL Nutritional Assessment of Children
URL Assessing Nutritional Health (Video)
2.3 - Growth and Development of Preschoolers URL 'Growth and Development'

Read chapter 7 Physical Development of Early Childhood. (30 minutes)

URL Every Baby Matters: Guidelines for Good Nutrition in Bradford and Airedale Nutrition and 1-5 Year Old

Read the pages from 1 to 9. (22 minutes)

URL Dietary Recommendations for Healthy Children.

Read the entire page. (6 minutes)

American Heart Association

URL Theories of Growth and Development in Pediatrics: A review Disease

Read the entire page. (15 minutes)

J PaediatrNursSci 

URL Role of Nursing Professionals for Parenting Development in Early Childhood: A Systematic Review of Scope

Read the section “Discussion”. (15 minutes) 

Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

URL Topic: Growth and Development of Preschooler
URL Growth and Development Assessment
URL How to measure MUAC (Video)
URL Nutritional Assessment of Children
URL Assessing Nutritional Health (Video)
2.4 - Growth and Development of School-Age Children URL Middle Childhood (6-8 Years)

Read the entire article. (6 minutes)

CDC

URL Middle Childhood (9-11 Years of Age)

Read the entire article. (7 minutes)

CDC

URL Sleep in School-Aged Children

Read the entire article. (3 minutes)

CDC

URL Tips for Better Sleep

Read the entire article. (1 minute)

CDC

URL Middle Childhood Growth and Development

Open the book on 'Child Growth and Development' by clicking on PDF link. Read pages 238-244, 249-253, 269-273, 302-303, 306-309. (40 minutes)

‘Child Growth and Development - ECE 101’ by College of the Canyons

URL Topic: Growth and Development of School-Aged Children
URL Growth and Development Assessment
URL How to measure MUAC (Video)
URL Nutritional Assessment of Children
2.5 - Growth and Development of Adolescent URL Dietary Recommendations for Healthy Children

Read the entire article. (6 minutes)

American Heart Association

URL Lifespan Development: A Psychological Perspective (2 Eds.)

Read chapter 6. (1 hour 15 minutes)

College of Lake County Foundation

URL Adolescence - Social Emotional Development

Read the entire article. (20 minutes)

 College of the Canyons

URL Topic: Growth and Development of Adolescents
URL Growth and Development Assessment
URL How to measure MUAC (Video)
URL Nutritional Assessment of Children
2.6 - Safety and Injury Prevention in Children URL Injuries Among Children and Teens

Read the entire page. (3 minutes)

CDC

URL Health and Safety in the Child Care Setting: Prevention of Injuries

Read the section “Risk of Injuries and Stages of Development”. (12 minutes)

The California Childcare Health Program

URL Child Safety and Injury Prevention (Child Care Manual)

Read the entire page. (18 minutes)

Niagara Region
URL A Guide to Home Safety: Identifying and Preventing Hazards

Read the entire page. (12 minutes)

SafeHome.Org

URL The Nurse's Role in Pediatric Injury Prevention

Read the "Abstract". (2 minutes)

Crit Care Nurs Clin North Am

URL Topic: Safety and Injury Prevention in Children
2.7 - Health Assessment in Children URL Clinical Practice Guidelines for Nurses in Primary Care- Pediatric and Adolescents Care

Read the section “ Pediatric History” and “ Physical Examination of the Infant and Child”. (20 minutes)

Government of Canada

URL The History and Physical Examination

Read the entire page. (20 minutes)

Better Care

URL Neurological Exam for Children

Read the entire page. (9 minutes)

Stanford Children’s Health

URL Topic: Health Assessment in Children
2.8 - Immunization URL 'Immunity'

Read the entire page. (1 minute)

National Cancer Institute

URL Immune Response

Read the entire page. (5 minutes)

MedlinePlus

URL Immunity Types

Read the entire page. (2 minutes)

CDC

URL Principles of Vaccination

Read the entire page. (12 minutes)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

URL 'Herd Immunity'

Read the section “ What is herd immunity?”. (2 minutes)

Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology

URL Infant Immunization Cards

Read the entire page. (2 minutes)

The OpenLearn Create

URL Immunization Side Effects

Read the entire page. (4 minutes)

Better Health

URL Recommended Solutions to the Barriers to Immunization in Children and Adults

Read the section “ Barrier to childhood vaccines and possible solution”. (7 minutes)

Missouri medicine

URL What Role Do Nurses Play in the Vaccination Process?

Read the entire page. (4 minutes)

The Chicago School

URL Topic: Immunity
URL Vastus Lateralis injection
URL Positing infants/childrens for injection- Immunization Academy (Video)
URL Deltoid Muscle injection
URL Intradermal BCG Vaccine- Immunization (Video)
URL Subcutaneous injection
URL Vastus Lateralis Injection Children (Video)
URL Subcutaneous Injection
2.9 - Social, Cultural, and Environmental/Community Factors Influencing Child Development URL Human Growth and Development

Read the sections "Introduction" and "Factors Affecting Growth and Development." (5 minutes)

StatPearls Publishing

URL Exploring Factors That Influence Child Development

Read the entire page. (9 minutes)

National Institute of Health.

URL Family, Peer and School Influence on Children's Social Development

Read the sections “Family Influence, Peer Influence, School Influence and Conclusion”. (13 minutes)

World Journal of Education.

URL How Media Use Can Affect Kids

Read the entire page. (5 minutes)

Kids Health.

URL The Influence of the Environment

Read the section “ Community”. (10 minutes)

Institute of Medicine (US) and National Research Council (US) Committee on the Science of Adolescence

URL Family Factors That Contribute to Child Abuse and Neglect

Read the entire page. (1 minute)

Child Information Gateway

URL Cultural Influences on Child Development

Read the entire page. (12 minutes)

Maryville University

URL Topic: Social, Cultural, and Environmental/Community Factors in Child Development
3.1 - Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication URL Open RN: Fundamentals of Nursing

Read "Communication with Patients". (25 minutes)

Wisconsin Technical College System

URL Communication for the Nursing Professional

Read the Chapter 2: Communication strategies, Non-verbal communication, Cultural considerations. (14 minutes)

Press Books

URL Communicating with Pediatric Patients and their Families: The Texas Children’s Hospital Guide for Physicians, Nurses and Other Healthcare Professionals

Go to the link, download the file, and read Chapter 1 and Chapter 14. (1 hour 15 minutes)

Texas Children’s Hospital

URL Topic: Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication
3.2 - Communication and Counseling Skills URL Communication Within Family System

Read from ‘Communicating Within the Family System’ to end of ‘Cognitive Orientations and Communication’. (29 minutes)

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication

URL 'Family Communication Patterns'

Read from ‘Family Communication Patterns’ to end of ‘Laissez-faire’. (6 minutes)

The LibreTexts libraries

URL Communications and Families

Read from ‘Family Communication Processes’ to ‘Key Takeaways’. (12 minutes)

University of Minnesota

URL Effective Communication with Parents and Carers

Read the entire article. (9 minutes)

Raising Children Network

URL Effective Communication in Nursing

Read ‘3. Communication process’, ‘5. Types of communication’, and ‘8. Improving communication’. (3 minutes)

Intechopen

URL Family and Inter-Professional Communication Strategies

Read pages 13-1, 50-55, 68, 92-96, 215-219. (1 hour and 30 minutes)

Communicating with Pediatric Patients and their Families: The Texas Children’s Hospital Guide for Physicians, Nurses and other Healthcare Professionals’ by Texas Children’s Hospital

URL Communication Strategies for Child/Family Counselling

Open ‘FCS Sheet 8: Effective communication in family-centred service’ and read pages 3-4. (4 minutes)

CanChild, McMaster University

URL Topic: Communication and Counseling Skills
3.3 - Health Teaching URL Nurse As Educator

Read the section ‘Definition of the nurse’. (1 minute)

International Confederation of Nurses

URL Health Education of Client

Read the entire section ‘Patient Education’. (4 minutes)

‘Holland-Frei Cancer Medicine’ 6th edition

URL Importance of Health Education

Read the article from the section ‘WHY IS PATIENT EDUCATION IMPORTANT’ to the section ‘HOW ARE PATIENTS DIFFERENT?’. (5 minutes)

Arkansas State University

URL Benefits of Health Education

Read sections ‘Expected Beneficial Outcomes’ and ‘Other Potential Beneficial Outcomes’. (1 minute)

University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, 2019

URL Client Health Education

Read first paragraph of the section ‘Background’, and the entire section ‘Educating children, adolescent, and young adult patients’. (13 minutes). 

eviQ, NSW Government

URL Techniques of Teaching

Read the article from section ‘Patient-teaching techniques that work’ to the section ‘Asking key assessment questions’. (9 minutes)

‘Nursing’ Journal

URL Patient Education Strategies

Read the entire article. (21 minutes)

Lippincott Nursing Center

URL Learning Domains

Read the entire article. (4 minutes)

Emporia State University

URL Lessons Measurable Goals and Objectives

Read the entire article. Texts in enclosed boxes are optional. (5 minutes)

‘GSC Lesson Planning 101’ by Deborah & Shumway-Pitt

URL Choosing Effective Patient Education Materials

Read the entire article. (3 minutes)

A.D.A.M. Inc.

URL Maximizing Teaching Moments

Read the entire article. (6 minutes)

A.D.A.M. Inc.

URL Topic: Health Teaching
3.4 - Cultural Competence URL Definition of Culture

Read the entire article. (4 minutes)

University of Minnesota

URL How Culture Influences Health

Read the entire article. (15 minutes)

Canadian Pediatric Society

URL 'Transcultural Nursing'

Read the entire article. (17 minutes)

‘Nursing’ Journal

URL 'Cultural Competence'

Read the entire article. (4 minutes) 

Nursing Made Incredibly Easy! Wolters Kluwer Health

URL Barriers to Culturally Competent Care

Read the sections ‘Communication’ and ‘Provider Opennes and Awareness’. (7 minutes)

Pediatrics and Neonatal Nursing

URL Barriers and Facilitators to Cultural Competence

Read the sections ‘Barriers reported by practitioners’, ‘Facilitators reported by practitioners’, and ‘Facilitators reported by patients/caregivers’. (22 minutes)

BMC Health Services Research

URL Cultural Competence Skills Set

Read the entire article. (16 minutes)

NebGuide, Nebraska Extension Publications

URL Communicating with Pediatric Patients and their Families: The Texas Children’s Hospital Guide for Physicians, Nurses and other Healthcare Professionals

Read chapter 28 ‘Communicating across Cultural Differences’. (40 minutes)

Texas Children’s Hospital

URL Elements of Culture

Read the entire article. (41 minutes)

University of Minnesota

URL Topic: Relevance of Developing Cultural Competence
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