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Lecture type	Total
Lectures	30
Seminar	15

* Load is given in academic hour (1 academic hour = 45 minutes)

Course objective: To enable students to adopt the basics of protection and care of children of preschool age, to learn the most common diseases of that age and the role of educators in the prevention of diseases and treatment
Course content broken down in detail by weekly class schedule (syllabus):
- Introductory lecture, the characteristics of the newborn and childhood
- Growth and Development
- Inflammation, Acute tonsillopharyngitis
- Paranasal sinusitis, otitis
- Acute diarrhea, Rota viral diarrhea
- Seizures, Epilepsy
- Urinary infections, Vesicouretheral reflux
- Inheritance, Genes, Chromosomes, Hemophilia
- Down syndrome, Turner syndrome
- Fever
- Vaccination
- Anemia
- Celiac Disease
- Diabetes mellitus
-Asthma, obstructive bronchitis, pneumonia
- Allergy
- Scabies, Pediculosis
- Intestinal Parasites
- Infectious diseases, hepatitis B and C; AIDS
- Accidents in children
- Resuscitation of children (Basic Life Support)
- Headache
- Psychogenic reactions in children, abdominal pain
- Rickets
- Prevention of atherosclerosis in children
- Child and sport
- Vital statistical indicators in children
- Action for the smile of a child in hospital
- Child Care
- Nutrition, failure to weight

1. Pedijatrija, udžbenik za medicinske sestre, , Duško Mardešić, Školske knjiga, 2005.
2. Pedijatrija za medicinske sestre, , Ivan Malčić, Školska knjiga, 2005.

1. Pedijatrija za više medicinske sestre, , Miro Juretić, Livio Balarin i suradnici, KB Split, 1995.
2. Pedijatrija, , Duško Mardešić i suradnici, Školska knjiga, 2016.

Mandatory course - Regular studij - Early and Preschool Education