Paediatric bioscience

Providing an introduction to pharmacodynamics and the ways in which medications and drugs affect the human body. Although this is part of the paediatric bioscience module, this is generalised and therefore can be applied to any field of nursing and medicine as an introduction.

An introduction to the basics of pharmacology focusing on pharmacokinetics and the way in which he body affects medications. includes information on absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion. This foundation knowledge is included in the paediatric bioscience module but is generalised and therefore can be applied to any field or nursing and introduction to medicine or health and social care.

Level 4 notes on paediatric basic life support including BSL paediatric algorithm, choking algorithm, primary assessments, secondary assessments and the WETFLAG algorithm. These notes tie in well with the clinical assessment notes.

An introduction to the biological basis and understanding of why and how we undertake clinical observations in paediatric nursing. This covers the ABCDE assessment, normal parameters in children and how a child's physical biology affects their vital signs depending on their age and development.