COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CRITICAL CARE NURSING

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
CHH 7010 CRITICAL CARE 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 FATMA VURAL

Offered to

Surgical Nursing ( Non-Thesis-Evening)

Course Objective

This course - to have information of the student within intensive care nursing- focuses on the needs of critically ill patient's family, ethical and legal responsibility of the nurse, care management and monitoring of the patient experiencing complex disorders and learning the suggestions of systematic analysis/evidence-base guides.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Students explain knowledge related to critical patient care management in the field of surgical nursing inclusively.
2   They discuss the evidence-based practice about knowledge related to critical patient care in the field of surgical nursing.
3   They use the basic technological devices related field of surgical nursing regarding critical patient care management.
4   They use the proper communication skills in the field of surgical nursing conduct multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary team collaboration.
5   They act ethically and legally to critical patient care management in the field of surgical nursing.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The history of intensive care nursing, roles and responsibilities Organizations and associations concerned with Intensive care nursing
2 Invasive and non-invasive monitoring and nurse responsibility in the patients in ICU.
3 Mechanical ventilation in the patients in ICU
4 Neurological diagnosis, KIBAS, management of cerebral herniation in ICU
5 Intracranial pressure monitoring, measuring and nursing approaches in the prevention of secondary brain injury in the patients in ICU.
6 Patients care management in hypercapnic and hypoxemic respiratory failure in ICU
7 Pulmonary embolism diagnosis, treatment and nursing approaches in ICU
8 Midterm
9 Cardiovascular system diagnosis, cardiac deficiency and nursing approaches in ICU.
10 Acute Renal Deficiency and Nursing Approaches in the patients in ICU
11 Pharmacological agents in the treatment of the patients in ICU and nursing approaches.
12 Multiple organs failure case management in ICU
13 To define the psycho-sociological problems, to determine and manage the needs of the patient and her/his family in the ICU
14 Ethical and legal issues in ICU
15 Patient safety and staff safety in the ICU

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Sahinoglu AH., Issues and solutions of Intensive Care. Clinics in Türkiye publishing house.2002 (2. bs. 2002) set Ofset. Ankara
2. Tra. Ed. Ozcengiz D. Eds. Irwin RS. Rippe JM. Manual for Intensive Care 3 th ed. 2002. Nobel Medicine Bookstore. Nobel printing Adana
3. Melander, Sheıla Drake Case Studies In Critical Care Nursing: A Guide For Application And Review ., Saunders Com. 2001.
4. Ayres SM.,Grenvik A., Holbrook PR., Shoemaker WC. Textbook of critical care 3th ed. 1995. WB Saunders Company. Philadelphia.USA.
5. Hall JB. Schmid GA. Wood.LDH. Principles of critical care 1992. McGraw-Hill inc. New York USA.
6. Dolan JT. Critical care nursing clinical management through nursing process. 1991. FA Davis Company Philadelphia.USA.
7. Le More Priscilla, Burkem Karen. Medical Surgical Nursing; Critical Thinking in Client Care. 1996 Addison Wesley Nursing, California,

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Visually supported presentation
Case 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
It is expected that homeworks and reports are prepared in APA format in computer.

Assessment Criteria

In the exams; the skills of interpreting, recalling, and deciding, explaining, classifying, integration information will be assessed.
In the assignment; the skills of reaching correct and critical information, evaluating information critically, choosing information/skill/method necessary for nursing care, and problem solving will be assessed.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Doç Dr. Özgül Karayurt. Tel: 0 232 412 4790 ozgul.kyurt@deu.edu.tr
Yard. Doç. Dr. Özlem Bilik Tel: 0232 412 6962 ozlem.bilik@deu.edu.tr
Yard. Doç. 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.15555
LO.2
LO.355
LO.4
LO.5

CONTACT INFORMATION
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