Children are very different from adults, physiologically and psychologically; therefore, in implementing child nursing care, nurses must understand the characteristics of children appropriately. To meet the challenges of children’s needs, child nursing must respond positively to these needs. Many advances have been made in pediatric nursing, including the separation of adult nursing care facilities from pediatric unit care, so that nurses and other professional nursing care staff can provide therapy based on the individual needs of their respective patients.

This teaching material is arranged consisting of eleven chapters where the arrangement refers to Learning Outcomes in Child Nursing consisting of: 1) Basic concepts of child nursing; 2) The concept of healthy child nursing; 3) Growth and development screening procedures in children; 4) Essential neonatal concept: 5) Procedures for implementing nursing care in infants based on essential neonate; 6) Nursing care in sick children; 7) The concept of nursing care in children with impaired fulfillment of pathological nutritional needs of the digestive and metabolic endocrine systems; and 8) Integrated Management Of Childhood Illness (IMCI) inservice settings.