COURSE UNIT TITLE

Offered By

Surgical Nursing

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR FATMA VURAL

Offered to

Surgical Nursing

Course Objective

This practice course ensures the students to acquire skill and experience in conducting a management based on cultural differences for the preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative nursing care of patients related to their doctorate thesis topics in line with the nursing theory/model that they base their advanced knowledges and theses and by using the evidence-based resources, guides and technology through observation and practices in a developed country.

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. Evidence Based Nursing , http://www.science.at/journals/medicine/nurse.html
2. National Guideline Clearinghouse, http://www.ngc.gov/
3. Best Practice Guidelines, http://www.rnao.org/bestpractices
4. Cochrane Collaboration Rewiev
5. Craig, V. Jean (Ed.) The Evidence Based Practice Manual For Nurses ., Churchill Livingstone, Incorparated 2002
6. Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing; http://www.nursingnetwork.com/webjournal.htm
7. Evidence Based Nursing; http://evidence.ahc.umn.edu/ebn.htm
8. Evidence Based Nursing, http://www.thequalityhospital.com/cgiwin/mercyweb.exe/n_research.htm;

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Making observation/practice concerning the thesis topic/used model in a developed country
Sending weekly study report
Case report prepared to publish in an international journal

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

1. In this practice course, students make an observation/practice plan, set targets, submit to their advisors and discuss after receiving acceptance from a developed center related to their thesis topics. In the first block of the practice, they make observations concerning the thesis/surgery patient group in line with the learning plan and targets. They review the observation/practice plan that they prepared and prepare the last study report by improving it and discuss the plan in the electronic environment.

2. In the second block of the practice, they make improvements by evaluating critically the care interventions that they plan for their theses or patient groups based on their new information and acquisitions. They collect the data of the patient that they provide care for or monitör based on a specific nursing model, evaluate them in detail, plan interventions and prepare a preliminary report.

3. At the end of the practice, they evaluate their developments in the light of their learning targets and integrate their acquisitions into the process of thesis application, draw conclusions as regards to how to transform them into the benefits of the society, discuss with the advisors. Besides, they prepare an international paper containing the case study and care management of their patients interviewed in-depth in APA format and share this paper for social benefiting.

4. In the final exam, the abilities of interpreting, remembering, taking a decision, explaining, classifying and combining the information will be evaluated.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

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

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes