COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SURGICAL NURSING I

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
CHH 5003 SURGICAL NURSING I COMPULSORY 2 0 0 6

Offered By

Surgical Nursing

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ÖZLEM BILIK

Offered to

Surgical Nursing

Course Objective

This course aims the student to learn the basic concepts and topics of surgical nursing and the new developments in care management in accordance with evidence base resources, standards and up-to-date guides

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   The student defines the role and importance of the surgical nurse.
2   The student discusses the methods and importance of surgical asepsis, sterilization and disinfection methods
3   The student explains the pre/during/ post care needs of individual/family/society in diseases requiring surgical interventions in accordance with up-to-date and evidence based practices.
4   The student discusses care management and hemodynamic monitoring in cardiovascular system surgical diseases.
5   The student explains care management in genitourinary system surgical diseases
6   The student discusses care management in gastrointestinal system surgical diseases.
7   The student explains enteral and parenteral nutrition and evidence based nursing approaches.
8   The student explains the legal and ethical issues in satisfying the pre/during/post operation care management of individual/family/society.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Planning the lesson, introduction and determining needs Literature Reviews and use of evidence based guides in Nursing.
2 The methods and importance of surgical asepsis, sterilization and disinfection
3 The methods and importance of surgical asepsis, sterilization and disinfection
4 Perioperative nursing approaches
5 Continue
6 1st Midterm
7 Care management in Cardio-vascular system surgical diseases and hemodynamic monitoring Coroner bypass case study
8 Continue
9 Care management in genitourinary surgical diseases
10 Continue
11 Care management in gastrointestinal system surgical diseases
12 Care management in gastrointestinal system surgical diseases (Continue)
13 Enteral nutrition and evidence based nursing approaches.
14 Parenteral nutrition and evidence based nursing approaches.

Recomended or Required Reading

Main resources
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;
9. JBI: http://www.joannabriggs.edu.au/pubs/best_practice.php

*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


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
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

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
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
Weekly pre-course/post-course preparations (reading the course materials, the articles etc.) 13 2 26
Preparation to the mid-term 1 26 26
Preparation to the final exam 1 28 28
Homework 4 5 20
Making presentation 4 5 20
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 150

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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