COURSE UNIT TITLE

Offered By

Nursing

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR HANDE YAĞCAN

Offered to

Nursing

Course Objective

The aim of the course is to motivate nursing students from different countries to share their knowledge, health systems, nursing care and education systems with each other, to identify the differences, to learn to give care that respects culture, and to engage in activities that improve nursing education and health systems.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Eckman, M. (2013). Nursing Care Planning Made Incredibly Easily. 2nd edition. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
2. Hauck F.R. & Brown CM. (2021). Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice. Immigrant Health. Elsevier Health Sciences, Holland.
3. McFarland, M. R., Wehbe-Alamah, H. B. (2015). Leininger's Culture Care Diversity and Universality: A Worldwide Nursing Theory. USA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.
4. Pillitteri, A. (2010). Maternal & Child Health Nursing: Care of the Childbearing & Childrearing Family. UK: Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
5. Gender equality https://www.unicef.org/gender-equality
6. Priority Gender Equality https://en.unesco.org/
7. Communication in Elderly Care: Cross-Cultural Perspectives. (2011). UK: Bloomsbury Publishing.
8. Wendt, C., Frisina, L., & Rothgang, H. (2009). Healthcare system types: a conceptual framework for comparison. Social Policy & Administration, 43(1), 70-90.
9. Reibling, N., Ariaans, M., & Wendt, C. (2019). Worlds of healthcare: a healthcare system typology of OECD countries. Health Policy, 123(7), 611-620
10. Marchildon, G. P., Allin, S., & Merkur, S. (2021). Health Systems in Transition Third Edition. University of Toronto Press.
11. World Health Organization. (2021). Building health systems resilience for universal health coverage and health security during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond: WHO position paper (No. WHO/UHL/PHC-SP/2021.01). World Health Organization.
12. Defining Health Systems. https://www.ahrq.gov/chsp/defining-health-systems/index.html
13. Bielecki, A., & Nieszporska, S. (2019). Analysis of healthcare systems by using systemic approach. Complexity, 2019.
14. OECD. https://www.oecd.org/health/health-at-a-glance-europe/
15. OECD. https://www.oecd.org/economy/growth/healthcaresystemsefficiencyandpolicysettings.htm
16. Hunter, D. J., & Bengoa, R. (2023). Meeting the challenge of health system transformation in European countries. Policy and Society, 42(1), 14-27.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Flipped Learning, presentation, question-answer, small group discussion, role play, brain storming, observation.

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

In the assessment of the course, 50% of the midterm grade and 50% of the final grade shall determine the semester grade.
Midterm Grade includes %25 midterm exam, %15 homework/ presentations and %10 classroom activities.
Semester Grade: 50% 1st Midterm Exam grade + 50% final grade
To pass the course, the average must be 60 points.

Assessment Criteria

In exams; interpretation, recall, decision making, explanation, classification, information combining skills will be evaluated.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

It is expected to come to the lessons by reading the resources uploaded to the sakai system.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Assist Prof. Hande YAĞCAN
02324124776
hande.yagcan@gmail.com

Office Hours

You can meet on Wednesdays between 12:00 and 13:00 by making an appointment.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes