COURSE UNIT TITLE

: EMERGENCY NURSING

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
CHH 7008 EMERGENCY NURSING COMPULSORY 2 0 0 4

Offered By

Surgical Nursing ( Non-Thesis-Evening)

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ÖZLEM BILIK

Offered to

Surgical Nursing ( Non-Thesis-Evening)

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to enable students gain current knowledge about acute and critic patient care by being aware of ethical and patient safety and professional role and importance of emergency nursing in line with evidence based sources, national and international standards and guides.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Students explain professional role and importance of emergency nursing
2   They explain nursing interventions in acute and critic patient care in emergency.
3   They analyze the data of patients in emergency, early diagnose the problems and explain priorities.
4   They discuss the importance of patient safety and national and international standards in emergency in line with evidence based guides.
5   They explain the importance of legal and ethical subjects in emergency nursing

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Professional role and importance of emergency nurse in critical patient care management Organizations and associations concerned with emergency nursing
2 The importance of tiryaj Advanced life support
3 Respiratory system emergencies and nursing care
4 Cardiovascular emergencies and nursing care
5 Neurological emergencies and nursing care
6 Renal emergencies and nursing care
7 Midterm
8 Gastro Intestinal System emergencies and nursing care
9 Endocrine emergencies and nursing care
10 Emergency care management and follow of trauma patient
11 Emergency care management and follow of trauma patient (Continue)
12 Emergency care management and follow of poisoning diagnosis
13 Emergency care management and follow of psychiatric patient
14 Patient safety and staff safety in emergency department
15 Ethical and legal issues in emergency nursing

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Newberry, L., 2001, Sheehy s Emergncy Nursing Principles and Practice, Fifty Edition, Mosby, USA
2. Olgun, N., Aslan, FE., Kuğuoğlu, Y., 2002, Acil Bakım, Nobel Tıp Kitapevleri, Istanbul
3. Çevr. Edt. Özcengiz, D., Yoğun Bakım El kitabı, Edt., Critical Care Texbook, 3. baskı, Nobel Tıb Kitabevleri, Ankara
4. Emergency Nursing Ed. Lewis Mantic Sharon, Collier Cox Idolia. Medical Surgical Nursing; Assessment And Management Of Clinical Problems. 1992, 3.th Edition Mosby Yearbook. St.Louis.
5. Critical Care Nursing. Ed. Ed. Lewis Mantic Sharon, Collier Cox Idolia. Medical Surgical Nursing; Assessment And Management Of Clinical Problems. 1992, 3.th Edition Mosby Yearbook. St.Louis.
6. Craıg, V. Jean (Ed.) The Evıdence Based Practıce Manual For Nurses ., Churchıll Lıvıngstone, Incorparated 2002
7. Tıntınallı, Judıth E. Emergency Medıcıne: A Comprehensıve Study Guıde Mcgraw-Hıll, 2004

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Visually supported presentation
Case discussion
Brain storming
Questions-Answers

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
It is expected that homeworks and reports are prepared in APA format in computer.

Assessment Criteria

In the exams, the abilities of interpreting, remembering, taking a decision, explaining, classifying and combining the information will be evalauted.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Assoc.Dr. Özgül Karayurt Tel: 0 232 412 4785 ozgul.kyurt@deu.edu.tr
Asst. Prof. Dr. Özlem Bilik Tel: 0232 412 4787 ozlem.bilik@deu.edu.tr
Asst. 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)
Lectures 14 2 28
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 3 42
Preparation for midterm exam 1 8 8
Preparation for final exam 1 8 8
Preparing assignments 1 10 10
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 100

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10
LO.155
LO.255
LO.355
LO.45
LO.5