Health Care and Promotion for Infants and Toddlers

Health Care and Promotion for Infants and Toddlers

Instructors: Yuanyuan Yang

What you'll learn

You can learn how to take care of newborns, infants and toddlers in daily life, for example, breastfeeding, skin care, dental care, etc.
You will learn how to promote children's growth and development, including kangaroo mother care, touching, play, language promotion skills, etc..
You will know how to prevent common illnesses in newborns, infants and toddlers and care for them properly.

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20 assignments

Taught in English

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There are 9 modules in this course

This course provides a comprehensive overview of early childhood (0 to 3 years old) healthcare, covering newborn, infant, and toddler characteristics, daily parenting, early childhood development and education, as well as the prevention and treatment of common infectious diseases. It also includes information on managing common health problems in newborns, infants and toddlers, for example, neonatal jaundice, pneumonia, diarrea, fever, rickets, anemia, etc..

The course content was developed based on authoritative textbooks, guidelines, and policies of international health organizations. It incorporates child care concepts commonly recommended by international academia and practitioners, while introducing new trends in the discipline to its learners and cultivating their global perspective and evidence-based thinking. The instructors of the course are healthcare professionals and scholars with international perspectives and extensive experience in child healthcare. This course aims to help learners understand the characteristics of children aged 0 to 3 years and master relevant nursing care skills through lectures, videos, quizzes, and discussions. This course is primarily aimed at undergraduate students majoring in children’s health care and nursing. Maternal and child healthcare providers, babysitters, parents, and other caregivers who are interested in this topic are also welcome to participate in this course.

This unit covers characteristics of newborns, newborn daily parenting, breastfeeding, and supplementary feeding.

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8 videos3 assignments

This unit covers kangaroo mother care, neonatal jaundice, and special physiological manifestations in neonates.

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6 videos3 assignments

This unit addresses the infant feeding, neuropsychological development of infants and the promotion, motor development of infants and the promotion, language development of infants and the promotion.

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4 videos1 assignment

Here, you will learn the characteristics of toddlers (e.g., physiologic function, language and motor development, psychosocial development); care of toddlers (e.g., nutritional requirements and feeding, toilet training), and dental health.

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4 videos1 assignment

In this unit, we will learn the assessment of development, early childhood development promotion, play, and physical exercise.

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4 videos1 assignment1 discussion prompt

Next, we turn our attention to the immunization program and the procedure of vaccination; we will also consider how to cope with vaccination reactions.

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4 videos1 assignment1 discussion prompt

The unit introduces measles, chickenpox and neonatal syphilis.

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3 videos1 assignment

In this unit, you will learn foreign body airway obstruction, fever, pneumonia and diarrhea.

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5 videos4 assignments

In this unit, you will learn health problems related to nutrition, including iron deficiency anemia, vitamin D deficiency rickets, obesity and malnutrition.