What type of courses are needed for pediatric nursing?
Pediatric nurses provide medical care to infants, children and adolescents. Nursing duties involve assessing patients, administering medications, collecting urine and stool samples and providing acute care. In addition to holding nursing degrees, pediatric nurses take courses geared toward child care.Human Growth and DevelopmentPsychology of Human Growth and Development, a three-hour credit course, teaches pediatric nurses the biological and environmental factors that affect a person’s physical, cognitive and emotional development from birth until death.PathophysiologyPathophysiology is taught in two sections, each earning three college credits.
