COURSE UNIT TITLE

: RESEARCH IN NURSING I

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
CHH 7005 RESEARCH IN NURSING I COMPULSORY 2 2 0 6

Offered By

Surgical Nursing ( Non-Thesis-Evening)

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

Offered to

Surgical Nursing ( Non-Thesis-Evening)

Course Objective

This course aims that the student understands the importance of research in development of nursing practices, makes practices in line with ethical principles, reports the research and uses researches in practices

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Knowing the importance of research in nursing occupation
2   Explaining research steps
3   The ability to make research in line with ethical principles
4   Reporting the research
5   The ability to evaluate a research critically
6   Using research results in nursing practices

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction, meeting, introduction of program, determination of necessities
2 The importance of research in nursing
3 Scientific method and research
4 Steps of research process: literature review and academic framework
5 Aim/hypoteses and variables of research
6 Reserach designs: descriptive research
7 Research design: Experimental Researches and Semi-experimental researches and other researches
8 Research design: Experimental Researches and Semi-experimental researches and other researches (Continue)
9 Participants and population of the resarch
10 Research ethics
11 1st Midterm exam
12 Decision-making and descriptive statistics
13 Descriptive statistics (Continue)
14 Effctive presentation skills
15 2nd Midterm exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Foreign sources
Polit DF, Hungler BP. Nursing Research: Principles and Methods. Fourth Ed. JB Lippincott Company, Philadelphia. 1991.
Polit DF, Hungler BP. Essentials of Nursing Research: Methods, Appraisal, and Utilization. Third Ed. JB Lippincott Company, Philadelphia. 1993.
Woods NF, Catanzaro M. Nursing Research. Teori and Practice. The C.V. Mosby Company, St.Louis. 1988
Domestic sources:
Akgül A. Tıbbi Araştırmalarda Istatistiksel Analiz Teknikleri SPSS Uygulamaları . Üçüncü Baskı.Emek Ofset Ltd.Şti. Ankara. 2005.
Aksakoğlu G. Sağlıkta Araştırma Teknikleri Ve Analiz Yöntemleri.D.E.Ü.Rektörlük Matbaası, 2001-Izmir.
Aksayan S, Bahar Z, Bayık A, Emiroğlu ON, Erefe I, Görak G, Karataş N, Kocaman G, Kubilay G, Seviğ Ü. Hemşirelikte Araştırma Ilke Süreç Ve Yöntemleri. Erefe I. (Ed). Istanbul 2002. Odak Ofset.
Journal of Nursing Research and Development

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Presentation, discussion, question-answer, lab practices, research, article, data evaluation methods/ exercises

Assessment Methods

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


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Through exams, the skills of being able to interpret, remember, decide, explain and combine the knowledge are assessed.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Prof.Dr.Zuhal Bahar Tel: 02324124751 zuhal.bahar@deu.edu.tr
Assoc.Prof. Dr.Özgül Karayurt Tel: 02324124790 ozgul.kyurt@deu.edu.tr
Assoc. Prof .Dr.Ayşe Beşer Tel: 02324124752 ayse.beser@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Tutorials 15 2 30
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 4 56
Preparation for midterm exam 2 10 20
Preparation for final exam 1 12 12
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 2 2 4
Quiz etc. 0 0 0
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 150

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15PO.16PO.17PO.18
LO.1
LO.255
LO.35
LO.45
LO.5
LO.65