Time: You can start your studies within a week after enrolment. The estimated completion time for this course is two months. Please note! The course opens and you can start your studies 8 January 2026!
Enrollment for the spring courses is open till 14 June 2026, and you can start your studies within a week after enrollment. This course is also available in fall – enrollment opens in June and the first start is in August 2026.
Please note that lecturers will not provide guidance or assess courses between 1 June and 16 August 2026.
Place: Online studies
Scope: 3 ECTS credits
Target group: Anyone interested in the subject
This course is completed independently online on Learn digital learning environment.
Please notice that only students with a Finnish social security number (i.e. a personal identity code) can start their studies on Xamk Pulse’s courses. You can read more here.
Credited in degree at Xamk: Bachelor of Health Care, Degree Programme in Nursing
Area of competence mentioned in Curriculum: Core competence
Enrolment by: 14 December 2026
Fee: Free of charge
You can enroll for Open UAS studies for a maximum of 50 credits per semester. Enrolments that exceed 50 credits will be removed in the order of enrolments.
Xamk’s degree students who are present or absent cannot enroll for Xamk Pulse’s courses. Enrolments by Xamk’s degree students will be removed without separate notification.
Learning outcomes:
After completing this course the student:
- Knows the normal growth and development of children.
- Knows the special features of children and young people and can apply this knowledge to nursing.
- Can apply knowledge about anatomy and physiology, applied pharmacology and medication to nursing children and young people.
- Knows the most common diseases of children and young people to nursing.
- Can take into account and support the family as part of nursing children and young people.
Contents and methods:
- The normal growth and development of children and special characteristics of the child and of young nursing/principles
- Children’s health today
- Respiratory diseases, gastrointestinal disorders and endocrine disorders
- Children and medication
- Pain management
- Family-centered pediatric nursing
This course includes the following main contents:
- Growth and development of children – Family-centered pediatric nursing
- Children’s health today
- Vital signs in children – respiratory diseases, gastrointestinal disorders and endocrine disorders
- Pain management
The course includes recorded lectures, learning tasks, independent work as well as tests.
The course covers 3 ECTS credits, totalling 81 hours of student work. The number of hours is theoretical and varies according to student effort.
Study material:
All study materials are available on Learn platform.
Assessment:
Accepted/Failed
We will inform you about the implementation of the course by email. If you do not receive the message, please also check your spam!
Additional information on enrolment
Xamk Pulse, openstudies@xamk.fi.
Cancellation
If you do not start your studies, please inform us so that we can remove you from the course. This way, there will be no record of the course you did not complete. Cancellations should be sent to avoinamk@xamk.fi.
Transcript of records
The teacher has one month to give a grade after the student has completed all learning tasks. We will send you an electronically signed transcript of records within about a week after you have received the grade in the Peppi system. The transcript serves as a document if, for example, you are applying for credit for your studies at another university. Studies can also be credited at Xamk if you come to us as a degree student. See more on our website Information on Open UAS, Xamk Pulse studies.
This course is based on the curricula of Xamk’s degree programmes and the Finnish credits are fully compatible with the ECTS.
Please note that there can be changes in the course details in terms of the timetable and teachers, for example.
South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences is audited by the Finnish Education Evaluation Centre (FINEEC).