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Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type Of Course	D	U	L	ECTS
CHH 6026	SURGICAL NURSING PRACTICE I	ELECTIVE	0	6	0	9

Offered By

Surgical Nursing

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ÖZLEM BILIK

Offered to

Surgical Nursing

Course Objective

This practice course ensures the students to acquire information, skills and experience in planning a nursing care by interviewing in-depth with one of the patients in patient groups related to their thesis topics in the practice process in surgical diseases nursing and in conducting preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative nursing cares by integrating the evidence-based knowledges and care interventions into the practice.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1	Students plan and manage the nursing care in the patient group related to the thesis topic
2	They follow preoperative, intraoperative and postoper in a case related to the thesis topic.
3	They convey the evidence-based knowledges and care interventions that they learned into the nursing care.
4	They analyze the data of the patient, diagnose the problems in advance and determine the priorities.
5	They apply the patient safety principles during clinical practice
6	They are sensitive towards legal and ethical issues during clinical practice
7	They reach to new information and maintain their personal developments during clinical practice.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week	Subject	Description
1	DEU Res.Prac. Hosp. Operating Room, Neurosurgery operating room, Intensive Care Unit, Clinic, Neuroradiodiagnostic intervention department
2	DEU Res. Prac. Hosp. General Surgery Clinic, Transplantation Polyclinic
3	DEU Res. Prac. Hosp. Orhopedics and Traumatology Clinic and Polyclinic

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

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Clinical practice
Care plan
Report writing

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER	SHORT CODE	LONG CODE	FORMULA
1	ASG	ASSIGNMENT
2	FIN	FINAL EXAM
3	FCG	FINAL COURSE GRADE	ASG * 0.50+ FIN* 0.50
4	RST	RESIT
5	FCGR	FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT)	ASG * 0.50+ RST* 0.50

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Case management and analysis of the students in the practice and their ability of synthetizing the case with the learned 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

Activities	Number	Time (hours)	Total Work Load (hours)
practice	3	30	90
Preparations before/after weekly lectures	3	20	60
Preparation for final exam	1	13	13
Homeworks	1	60	60
Final	1	2	2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			225

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LO	PO.1	PO.2	PO.3	PO.4	PO.5	PO.6	PO.7	PO.8	PO.9	PO.10
LO.1	5	5	5	5	4	4	5		3	4
LO.2	5	5	5	5	4	4	5			4
LO.3	5	5	5	5	4	4	5	3	3	4
LO.4	4	4	4	5	4	4	5	3		4
LO.5	4	4	4	5	4	4	5	3		4
LO.6			4	4	4					4
LO.7	4	4	4	3	3	4	5	4		4

COURSE UNIT TITLE

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Offered By

Level of Course Unit

Course Coordinator

Offered to

Course Objective

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

Recomended Optional Programme Components

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Assessment Criteria

Language of Instruction

Course Policies and Rules

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Office Hours

Work Placement(s)

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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