The aim of this course is for students to apply nursing skills in the pediatric and infectious disease areas, providing direct and indirect care to newborns and providing nursing care for the most frequent childhood diseases.

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to determine the elements necessary to provide risk-free care to women and newborns at the three levels of health care, based on the nursing care process.

This course aims to analyze the growth and development of children, risk factors during the different stages of childhood and basic principles of pediatric care. It will also analyze the pediatric unit, emotional status of hospitalized children, nursing-specific procedures, dose and micro dose in chemical administration, process of care in pediatric nursing to adapt and systematize care and address the humanitarian responses to the needs of children.

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to recognize human responses in the face of ailments that require surgical and critical care treatment, which will enable them to provide specific nursing care and intervention through independent and interdependent nursing actions at the second and third levels of care, in collaboration with the health team.

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to link nursing theories to their education, training, practice, and research through a revision and critical analysis of scientific literature, consolidating the theoretical foundations of their nursing thinking in the different areas of the development of their discipline.

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to understand the physiological and pathological phenomena of women during their reproductive age, pregnancy, child birth, puerperium, and the end of reproductive life.

This course aims for students to: (1) Analyze the normal course of pregnancy, the anatomical and physiological changes of women in this process, the importance of prenatal care and the complications that can occur during pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period. (2) Review the clinical course of childbirth, postpartum and breastfeeding, as well as the diseases of women.

The aim of this course is to analyze the ethical principles necessary to make moral judgments in the practice of nursing to solve ethical dilemmas related to life and health and to review the Code of Ethics of Nursing.

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to understand and use the medical, psychological, and social aspects of patients in terminal stage, through a revision of the rights of terminally-ill patients, the ethical problems faced at the end of life as well as the vision of life in different cultures, in order to work collaborative in the palliative care of patients with terminal diagnoses.