Special Needs Children: How To Care For Our Most Fragile Patients (Viewing Only)
Contact Hours: 3
In this course, we will discuss strategies and techniques used to facilitate nursing and medical care in special needs children. This population of patients is extremely rewarding to care for, but they also have complexity that challenges medical staff on a daily basis. Variations in pain expression, verbal ability, physical dissimilarities, and cognitive deficits coupled with potentially anxious or knowledge impaired caregivers are just some of the things that these patients may present with. Having an improved knowledge base regarding these special types of patients will improve health care’s ability to provide the best care. In this course we will discuss strategies used to overcome these barrier and provide high quality care to special needs children.
Course Outline:
- Introduction
- Background
- Overview
- Autism
- Care of Patients with ASD
- Autism Case Study
- Cerebral Palsy
- Care of Patients with CP
- Cerebral Palsy Case Study
- Oppositional Defiant Disorder
- Care of the Patient with ODD
- Oppositional Defiant Disorder Case Study
- Sensory Impairment
- Care of the Patient with Sensory Impairment
- Sensory Impairment Case Study
- The Caregiver (Often an Extension of the Special Needs Child)
- Special Needs Caregiver Case Study
- Conclusion
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In this course we will discuss strategies that nurses may utilize in order to facilitate nursing and medical care in special needs children.
Author: Cathy Goodwin-reed, BSN, RN
Co-author: Sarah Schulze, MSN, APRN
Course objectives: By the end of the course the learner shall be able to:
- Identify and differentiate common childhood learning and developmental disorders.
- Understand how to approach and communicate with special needs children.
- Identify strategies and techniques which promote cooperation and comfort in special needs children.
- Understand how to care for and work with family/caregiver of special needs children.
This course will take the average reader 150 minutes to complete and awards 3 contact hours of continuing education.
Target Audience:
Registered Nurses (RN)
Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRN)
Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN/LVN)
Requirement for completion:
Successful completion of all modules (course content, test, and evaluation).
Course Offering # 13
Continuing Education Provider Approval # 7-0090
Expiration: December 21, 2021
Nursing CE Central is an approved provider of continuing education per the KBN.
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Special Needs Children: How To Care For Our Most Fragile Patients Viewing Only
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