Pediatric Nursing is a compulsory course for undergraduate nursing students and consists of 51 credit hours and total 3 course credits. Pediatric Nursing is one of the clinical disciplines of nursing curriculum that focuses on growth and development, physiology, psychology, diseases, and family effects in all stages of the pediatric period. The main contents of the course includes child growth and development, child health care, child nutrition, newborns and care for their diseases, and nursing of nutritional disorder, digestive system, circulatory system, urinary system, hematologic system, nervous system, immune system, and infectious diseases.

As transition of medical model and expanding of nursing fields, the teaching of pediatric nursing follows the model of human-center, adopting nursing process as framework and being based on family care. The course aims to reflect the basic theory, knowledge, and skills of pediatric nursing. It enables students to combine the characteristics of pediatrics, combine theory and practice, improve clinical observation and analysis skills, as well as improve clinical judgment and problem-solving skills.