Special Needs Children: How To Care For Our Most Fragile Patients
Nursing CEUs / Special Children
In this course, we will discuss strategies and techniques used to facilitate nursing and medical care in special needs children. You will learn about common childhood learning and developmental disorders and how to identify and differentiate them. By the end of this course, you will understand how to approach and communicate with special needs children, as well as how to care for and work with their families and caregivers.
Course Outline
- Introduction
- Background
- Overview
- Autism
- Care of Patients with ASD
- Autism Case Study
- Cerebral Palsy
- Care of Patients with CP
- Cerebral Palsy Case Study
- Oppositional Defiant Disorder
- Care of the Patient with ODD
- Oppositional Defiant Disorder Case Study
- Sensory Impairment
- Care of the Patient with Sensory Impairment
- Sensory Impairment Case Study
- The Caregiver (Often an Extension of the Special Needs Child)
- Special Needs Caregiver Case Study
- Conclusion
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