COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PATIENT SAFETY IN NURSING CARE

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
HEH 6005 PATIENT SAFETY IN NURSING CARE ELECTIVE 2 0 0 6

Offered By

Fundamentals of Nursing

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR DILEK ÖZDEN

Offered to

Fundamentals of Nursing

Course Objective

Determine the possible risks regarding the patient safety at medical institutions, identify unexpected incidents occurring at hospitals within the scope of patient safety and apply the required strategies in order to prevent unexpected incidents and errors at medical institutions.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   1. Define the basic concepts, objectives and importance of patient safety
2   2. Apprehend both the National and International patient safety targets
3   3. Develop applications in accordance with medication errors and medication safety details
4   4. Develop applications aimed at preventing the surgical errors
5   5. Develop applications aimed at preventing the errors about the SBAR Technic
6   6. Develop applications aimed at preventing the patient fallings
7   7. Define the ethical dimension of patient safety
8   8. Develop applications aimed at preventing the blood and blood transfusion errors
9   9. Evaluate the applications regarding the patient safety
10   10. Apply event notifications in the patient safety

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Basic Concepts of Patient Safety Dilek Özden, Gülşah Gürol Arslan
2 Objective, Importance and Legal Aspect of Patient Safety Dilek Özden, Gülşah Gürol Arslan
3 National and International Patient Safety Targets Dilek Özden, Gülşah Gürol Arslan
4 Malpractices and Patient Safety in Nursing Dilek Özden, Gülşah Gürol Arslan
5 Medication Errors and Safety Dilek Özden, Gülşah Gürol Arslan
6 Infection Errors and Their Prevention Dilek Özden, Gülşah Gürol Arslan
7 Preventing the Blood and Blood Transfusion Errors Dilek Özden, Gülşah Gürol Arslan
8 midterm exam Dilek Özden, Gülşah Gürol Arslan
9 Preventing the Surgical Errors Dilek Özden, Gülşah Gürol Arslan
10 Preventing the Errors with the SBAR Technic Dilek Özden, Gülşah Gürol Arslan
11 Preventing the Patient Fallings Dilek Özden, Gülşah Gürol Arslan
12 Physical Determination and Patient Safety Dilek Özden, Gülşah Gürol Arslan
13 Developing Strategies aimed at Advancing the Patient Safety Dilek Özden, Gülşah Gürol Arslan
14 Employee Safety Dilek Özden, Gülşah Gürol Arslan
15 Course Evaluation Dilek Özden, Gülşah Gürol Arslan

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Alcan Z, Tekin DE, Civil SÖ. (2012). Hasta Güvenliği Beklenmedik Olaylarda Hemşirenin Rolü. Nobel Tıp Kitabevleri. Istanbul
2. Ay FA (Ed). (2013). Sağlık Uygulamalarında Temel Kavramlar ve Beceriler. Nobel Tıp Kitabevleri Ltd. Şti. Istanbul.
3. Hasta Güvenliği: Türkiye ve Dünya. http://www.ttb.org.tr/kutuphane/fsayek10_hastaguvenlik.pdf, 2015.
4. JC Akreditation Program: Hospital, National Patient Safety Goals, 2011
JCI Akreditasyon manuel, 2011
5. Hasta ve Çalışan Güvenliği Yönetmeliği, http://www.sislietfal.gov.tr/belgeler/
http://www.kalite.saglik.gov.tr/content/files/duyurular
6. Hasta Güvenliği Için Hemşirelik Uygulamaları. http://www.acibademhemsirelik.com/ 2015
7. 7. Akalın HE. Hasta Güvenliği Kültürü: Nasıl Geliştirebiliriz ANKEM, 2004; 18: 12-13.

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

None

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)

Prof.Dr. Dilek Özden
e-mail: dozden2002@yahoo.com
tel: 0-232-412 47 78

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 4 56
Preparation for midterm exam 1 3 3
Preparation for final exam 1 3 3
Preparing presentations 14 2 28
Project Preparation 14 2 28
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 150

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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LO.15321114111
LO.25311114111
LO.35553145321
LO.45111545321
LO.55111345321
LO.65134345321
LO.75111111111
LO.85132345321
LO.95111415141
LO.105111415141