Attendance

MATERNAL AND CHILD NURSING - Prof. Flavia Ventriglia 2025/26 Integrated Paediatrics Course Programme PART I. From Newborn to Adolescent MAIN CARE PROTOCOLS - Full-term and preterm newborns: medical history and physical examination Main typical newborn pathologies (neonatal jaundice, birth trauma, respiratory distress, congenital heart disease, necrotising enterocolitis, convulsions, metabolic disorders, haemorrhagic disease of the newborn. MEN due to incompatibility ) - Paediatric age and psychomotor development. Growth curves - Neonatal screening - Vaccinations. Indications and contraindications - Feeding: breastfeeding and weaning PART II. INFECTIOUS AND RHEUMATIC DISEASES MAIN CARE PROTOCOLS Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Whooping cough, Chickenpox, Infectious mononucleosis, Megaloerythema, Sixth disease, Scarlet fever, Tuberculosis, Rheumatic disease, Kawasaki disease, Schönlein-Henoch purpura PART III. RESPIRATORY DISEASES AND ALLERGIES MAIN CARE PROTOCOLS Bronchiolitis, bronchitis, infectious pneumonia, cystic fibrosis, rhinitis, asthma, laryngotracheitis, laryngospasm, bronchospasm PART IV. CARDIOCIRCULATORY DISEASES MAIN CARE PROTOCOLS Main congenital and acquired heart diseases PART V. DISEASES OF THE BLOOD AND HAEMATOPOIETIC ORGANS MAIN CARE PROTOCOLS Haemolytic disease of the newborn, anaemia, haemorrhagic diseases, leukaemia and lymphoma PART VI. DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM MAIN CARE PROTOCOLS Acute diarrhoea, coeliac disease, chronic inflammatory diseases, gastro-oesophageal reflux, abdominal pain, constipation. Pathologies of surgical interest: oesophageal atresia, hypertrophic pyloric stenosis, Hirschsprung's disease. PART VII. DISEASES OF THE KIDNEYS AND URINARY TRACT MAIN CARE PROTOCOLS Congenital malformations, urinary tract infections, vesicoureteral reflux, glomerulonephritis, nephrotic syndrome, arterial hypertension PART VIII DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM AND GENETIC SYNDROMES MAIN CARE PROTOCOLS Febrile convulsions, epilepsy, meningitis, encephalitis, tumours Down syndrome, Turner syndrome, Williams syndrome, Marfan syndrome, De George syndrome, Noonan syndrome, Ellis van Creveld syndrome PART IX. PAEDIATRIC EMERGENCIES. PBLS. THE CHILD IN PAIN. THE CHILD WITH A FEVER. MAIN CARE PROTOCOLS PART X. THE ROLE OF THE NURSE IN MANAGING THE DOCTOR-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP IN HOSPITALS AND IN THE COMMUNITY MAIN CARE PROTOCOLS