39308 - Paediatrics and Neonatology

Academic Year 2023/2024

  • Docente: Arianna Aceti
  • Credits: 2
  • SSD: MED/38
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Nursing (cod. 5907)

Learning outcomes

By the end of the lessons, the student will acquire knowledge and skills related to patophysiology and clinical methodology in paediatrics, with specific expertise in social and preventive paediatrics, and common and specific paediatric disease, from the neonatal age to adolescence.

Course contents

  • The healthy newborn
  • Common neonatal diseases
  • Neonatal care
  • Infant feeding in the first year of life
  • Fever and pain
  • Vaccines
  • Gastrointestinal diseases
  • Respiratory diseases
  • Growth and neurodevelopment
  • Main genetic diseases

Readings/Bibliography

  • Slides provided through Virtuale
  • Suggested book: "Elementi essenziali di Pediatria per Corsi di Laurea Triennali - Ed. Esculapio"

Teaching methods

Lectures

Assessment methods

Multiple-choice quiz (30'): 31 questions (16 neonatology/paediatrics; 15 gynaecology/obstetrics)

Office hours

See the website of Arianna Aceti