COURSE UNIT TITLE

Offered By

Department of Nursing

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ÖZLEM UĞUR

Offered to

Internal Medicine Nursing
Oncology Nursing
Fundamentals of Nursing

Course Objective

In this course, it is aimed that the student shall know palliative care purpose, philosophy and principles as well as responsibilities of palliative care team, determine the necessities of the patient and the patient s family, plan nursing interventions directed at pain and other symptoms of patient in need of palliative care, communicate with the patient and the patient s family, plan the care of dying patient and her/his family, knows the posthumous care of the patient, plan the care of the family in mourning process

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. Mccorkle R, Grant M, Frank- Stromborg M, Baird SB Cancer Nursing :A Comprehensive Textbook, W.B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia, 1996.
2. Payne, Sheila Seymour, Jane Ingleton, Christine , Palliative Care Nursing,
3. McGrawHill Education, 2004 . http://site.ebrary.com/lib/deulibrary
4. Matzo, Marianne LaPorte Sherman, Deborah Witt , Palliative Care Nursing
5. Quality Care to the End of Life, Springer Publishing Company, 2005.
6. Abu-Saad HH. Evidence-Based Palliative Care : Across the Lifespan ebrary
7. Reader, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2008. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/deulibrary
8. When children die : improving palliative and end-of-life care for children and their families (0-309-08437-7, 978-0-309-08437-6), Field, Marilyn J. Institute of Medicine, National Academies Press, 2003.
9. Palliative care perspectives (0-19-516577-2, 978-0-19-516577-7), Hallenbeck, James. Oxford University Press, 2003

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Presentation, discussion, question-answer, concept, literature review, self learning

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Through exams, the skills of being able to interpret, remember, decide, explain and combine the knowledge are assessed.

In the assignments of the students; defining the conditions, analyzing them, planning, deciding and conducting interventions and assessing them are assessed.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Asst. Prof. Dr. Özlem Uğur Tel: 412 6972

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes