Methods to Learn Clinical Pediatric Nursing for Nurse Students

Abstract

It is useful to learn about somatically ill children when implementing project-based learning. The students interview children’s nurses/parents with sick children and this enables/strengthens the students’ learning. Students learned pediatric nursing after completing the pediatric project, which is part of the nursing program. Some students learned in an international clinical placement in a pediatric ward. Combined learning from inside and outside educational institutions is useful. How can nursing students learn pediatric nursing in nursing education in the future, with large cohorts of nurses and few internships? This chapter is composed of several studies, both quantitative studies with questionnaires from 159 nursing students and qualitative studies with individual interviews of 18 nursing students after international clinical placement in a pediatric ward and eight nurses who had an international clinical placement in a pediatric ward as nurse students. And some studies about simulation in nursing studies and studies about clinical practice in other countries.