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 managing 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.

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

Main resource:

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,

*other resources described in the curriculum

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Clinical practice
Case report

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

1. Students become experienced in nursing care of the case group that they deal with in the first and second blocks of this practice course and evaluates critically. They manage the care of this group by using technology in line with recommendations of evidence-based guides. They collect the data of the patients that they provide care based on the nursing model used in this practice, evaluate them in-depth, implement the interventions that they plan and write reports. Students determine their own learning requirements and create the learning targets and strategies, present these to the advisor and discuss them.
2. Students put into practice the learning targets that they determined previously in the third block of the practice course. At the end of the practice, they evaluate their developments in the light of their learning targets and report their acquisitions in the process of thesis practice. Following the practice, they prepare an article containing the case analysis and care management of the patient interviewed in-depth in APA format.
3. In the final exam, the abilities of interpreting, remembering, taking a decision, explaining, classifying and combining the information will be evaluated.

Assessment Criteria

Case management and analysis of the students in the practice and their ability of synthesizing 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

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes