COURSE UNIT TITLE

: OPERATING ROOM NURSING

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
CHH 5014 OPERATING ROOM NURSING ELECTIVE 2 4 0 6

Offered By

Surgical Nursing

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR FATMA VURAL

Offered to

Surgical Nursing

Course Objective

The aim of the course is to gain the student knowledge and skill in terms of evidence based resources, AORN standards and up-to-date guides, the responsibilities and roles of operating room nurses, patient care management in the operating room, the preparation of the operating room, up-to-date practices in the operating room environment, patient-staff safety, ethical principles and legal procedures.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   The student explains the importance of the professional role of operating room nursing
2   The student diagnoses patient issues by analysing the data and determine evidence based individual care.
3   The student discusses nursing interventions according to anaesthesia types and operation types.
4   The student questions patient-staff safety in the operating room.
5   The student explains the ethical and legal issues in the operating room environment
6   The student assesses the effect of medical treatment and nursing care in the operating room in accordance with her/his observation.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 AORN suggestions for the roles and responsibilities of the operating room staff. The introduction of the Organization of Turkish Surgical and Operating Room Nurses
2 Surgical asepsis and infection control
3 The roles of nurses in the preparation of mayo table, operation positions and preventing complications (Pressure injury, DVT etc).
4 Anesthesia, analgesia and sedation
5 Patient safety in the operating room and AORN suggestions *Medical errors * Risk factors in patient safety *Enhancing patient safety *The culture of patient safety *National and international studies regarding patient safety
6 *JCI s patient safety targets and practices *Creating a safe environment
7 *Patient safety practices in the operating room * Creating a safe environment * Practices towards targets *Control systems in providing patient safety
8 Staff safety in the operating room -The prevention of infection, fire, electrical burning, toxic poisoning, sharp injuries, radiation, laser and latex allergy
9 Continue
10 1st Midterm
11 Evidence based practices in the operating room
12 -Standards towards the roles and responsibilities of operating room nurses -Practices in Turkey
13 Minimal invasive surgery and nursing practices -Robotic surgery and nursing practices -Electro-surgery and nursing practices -The responsibilities of the nurse in pneumatics tourniquet practices
14 Legal and ethical issues in the operating room

Recomended or Required Reading

Main resources
1. Rothrock C. R. Alexander's Care of the Patient in Surgery, fourteenth edition, Elsevier Mosby, 2010.
2. Haigh H.Perioperative standards and recommended practices. 2010 edition, AORN; 2010
3. AORN (Association of periopertive Registered Nurses) http://www.aorn.org/, Ekim 2011
Supplementary Resources:
1. Smeltzer C. S, Bare B, Hinkle J, ve Cheever K. Brunner & Suddarth s textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing. Twelfth edition, 2010; 422-455
2. http://www. jointcommission.org/Patientsafety/ ,Ekim 2011
3. http://www.npsf.org/ ,Ekim 2011
1. Center For Disease Control (CDC) http://www.cdc.gov/, Ekim 2011
2. American Hospital Association (AHA) http://www.aha.org/, Ekim 2011

*other resources described in the curriculum

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Visually supported presentation
Case discussion
Group Discussion
Questions-Answers
Brainstorming

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 PAR PARTICIPATION
4 FIN FINAL EXAM
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.25 +ODV * 0.25 + PAR* 0.20 + FIN*0.30
6 RST RESIT
7 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.25 +ODV * 0.25 + PAR* 0.20 + RST*0.30


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Each student is responsible for preparing, presenting, and reporting her/his topic in accordance with evidence based guide and up-to-date literature
Each student is responsible for reporting her/his observation after practice by combining with the literature
Assignment and reports will be prepared in the APA format

Assessment Criteria

In the exam, the skills of interpreting, recalling, and deciding, explaining, classifying, integration information will be assessed

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

The student is responsible for preparing, presenting, and reporting the fundamental topics of operating room
The student is responsible for reporting her/his operating room observation by combining with theoretical knowledge

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Assoc.Prof.Dr. Ozgul Karayurt Tel: 0 232 412 4785 ozgul.kyurt@deu.edu.tr
Assist. Prof. Dr. Aklime DICLE Tel: 0 232 412 4775 aklime.dicle@deu.edu.tr
Assist. Prof. Dr. Ozlem Bilik Tel: 0232 412 4787 ozlem.bilik@deu.edu.tr
Assist. Prof. Dr. Fatma Vural. Tel: 0232 412 4780 fatma.vural@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lecturing 14 2 28
Practice 14 4 56
Weekly pre-course/post-course preparations (reading the course materials, the articles etc.) 13 2 26
Preparation to the mid-term 1 8 8
Preparation to the final exam 1 10 10
Making presentation 4 5 20
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 150

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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CONTACT INFORMATION
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