Checking blood sample on infants : production of learning material for nursing students
Hue, Doan; Mgboh, Chinedu (2024)
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2024053018579
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2024053018579
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The purpose of this thesis was to develop learning material for Centria’s nursing students about infant blood sugar or glucose, how to test infant blood sugar, the risk factors that cause imbalance in infant blood sugar and how nurses manage the imbalance in infant blood sugar. This thesis consists of two parts; the first part is the theoretical part explaining infant blood sugar, when to test an infant for blood sugar imbalance, types of imbalances in infant blood sugar and nursing interventions towards infant blood sugar imbalance, while the second part is the learning material demonstrating the important information’s a nurse should know about infant blood sugar.
The objective of this product was to create awareness and educate nursing students about infant blood sugar and to teach them how they can manage infants with blood glucose imbalance. The learning material will also guide the nursing students on ways of ensuring safe management of infant blood sugar imbalance. The topic is important as it prevents complications that comes with infant’s blood sugar imbalance like brain injury and improve the quality of nursing care in family and child health.
The learning material was created in coordination with the Centria UAS’ nursing teacher which is based on evidence-based articles, journals, papers, and books. The learning material contains importance of checking infants blood sugar, risk factors of infant blood sugar imbalance, blood sugar values, blood glucose test procedure and monitoring time during management.
The objective of this product was to create awareness and educate nursing students about infant blood sugar and to teach them how they can manage infants with blood glucose imbalance. The learning material will also guide the nursing students on ways of ensuring safe management of infant blood sugar imbalance. The topic is important as it prevents complications that comes with infant’s blood sugar imbalance like brain injury and improve the quality of nursing care in family and child health.
The learning material was created in coordination with the Centria UAS’ nursing teacher which is based on evidence-based articles, journals, papers, and books. The learning material contains importance of checking infants blood sugar, risk factors of infant blood sugar imbalance, blood sugar values, blood glucose test procedure and monitoring time during management.