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Health Care and Promotion for Infants and Toddlers 

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Health Care and Promotion for Infants and Toddlers
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Coursera 
Overview

The aim is to promote healthy growth and development in infants and toddlers by providing essential healthcare services, nutrition education, and developmental assessments

Duration

16 hours

Total fee

Free

Mode of learning

Online

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Health Care and Promotion for Infants and Toddlers
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Health Care and Promotion for Infants and Toddlers
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Health Care and Promotion for Infants and Toddlers
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Course details

Skills you will learn
What are the course deliverables?
  • You can learn how to take care of infants and toddlers in daily life
  • You will know how to promote the growth and development of infants and toddllers
  • You will know how to prevent common illnesses in infants and toddlers and care for them properly
More about this course
  • The course Health Care and Promotion for Infants and Toddlers provides a comprehensive and detailed overview of cutting-edge knowledge, new concepts and practical skills in early childhood health care, including the growth and development of newborns, infants, and toddlers, daily parenting, and early childhood development and education
  • Additionally, it introduces the prevention and treatment of common infectious diseases
  • The contents concerning management of common health problems in infants and toddlers are also provided
  • The course content was developed based on authoritative textbooks (in English and Chinese), guidelines from home and abroad, and relevant 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
  • Through lectures, videos-watching, assignments, quizzes, case studies, discussions, and other forms of learning, this course helps the learners understand the basic theory and latest concepts of infant and toddler health care and to master relevant nursing techniques and coping skills
  • 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
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Health Care and Promotion for Infants and Toddlers
 at 
Coursera 
Curriculum

Unit 1 Neonatal health care (1)

Course welcome video

Characteristics of newborns-1

Characteristics of newborns-2

Newborn daily parenting

Breastfeeding-1

Breastfeeding-2

Breastfeeding-3

Supplementary feeding

Quiz 1

Quiz 2

Quiz 3

Unit 2 Neonatal health care (2)

Kangaroo mother care-1

Kangaroo mother care-2

Kangaroo mother care-3

Special physiological manifestations in neonates

Neonatal jaundice-1

Neonatal jaundice-2

Quiz 4

Quiz 5

Quiz 6

Unit 3 Infant health care

Infant health care-1

Infant health care-2

Infant health care-3

Infant health care-4

Quiz 7

Unit 4 The toddler’s health care

Characteristics and care of toddlers-1

Characteristics and care of toddlers-2

Dental health-1

Dental health-2

Quiz 8

Unit 5 Early childhood development

Assessment of development

Early childhood development promotion

Play

Physical exercise

Quiz 9

Discussion 1

Unit 6 Childhood vaccination

Childhood vaccination-1

Childhood vaccination-2

Childhood vaccination-3

Quiz 10

Discussion 2

Unit 7 Prevention and treatment of common infectious diseases in childhood

Measles

Chickenpox

Neonatal syphilis

Quiz 11

Unit 8 Management of common health problems in childhood (1)

Foreign body airway obstruction

Fever-1

Fever-2

Pneumonia

Diarrhea

Quiz 12

Quiz 13

Quiz 14

Quiz 15

Unit 9 Management of common health problems in childhood (2)

Iron deficiency anemia-1

Iron deficiency anemia-2

Vitamin D deficiency rickets

Obesity

Malnutrition

Quiz 16

Quiz 17

Quiz 18

Quiz 19

Final exam

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