Hospital Care for Children

Hospital Care for Children: education modules

Below are modules for the WHO Hospital Care for Children course which teaches health workers how to use the guidelines in everyday clinical practice.  The course teaches the 10 Stages of Management of all sick children: Triage, Emergency treatment, History and examination, Laboratory investigations, Main diagnosis and other diagnoses, Treatment, Supportive care, Monitoring, Discharge planning, and Follow-up.  The course can be done as a 4½ day workshop, or a module each week for 10 weeks.  It can be done in groups as a workshop or individually for self-learning as part of Continuing Medical Education for nurses and doctors. Practice using the guidelines in the wards is an essential part of learning.  The course material were last updated in February 2023.

Hospital Care for Children course timetable 2022

• Overview and introduction
• Chapter 3. Early Essential Newborn Care (2023)
• Chapter 3. Low birth weight
• Chapter 3. Neonatal sepsis (2023)
• Chapter 3. Birth asphyxia and resuscitation (2023)
• Chapter 4. Cough and difficult breathing II complex case
• Chapter 4. Cough and difficult breathing I
• Chapter 4. Chronic cough and fever (2023)
• Chapter 4. Oxygen therapy for children (2023)
• Chapter 5. Diarrhoea and severe dehydration (2023)
• Chapter 5. Diarrhoea and dehydration II
• Chapter 6. Fever in an infant
• Chapter 6. Fever, convulsions and coma
• Chapter 6. Fever and joint pains
• Chapter 7. Malnutrition (2023)
• Chapter 8. Children with HIV (2023)
• Chapter 9. Trauma
• Chapter 9. Burns
• Chronic illnesses in children (2023)
• Prevention of infections (2022)