COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SURGICAL NURSING PRACTICE II

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
CHH 6030 SURGICAL NURSING PRACTICE II ELECTIVE 0 6 0 9

Offered By

Surgical Nursing

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR 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

1   Students use the advanced level and current information that they gain in the nursing care of the patient group related to their thesis topics.
2   They use evidence-based practices, recommendations of the evidence-based guides and technology in the nursing care of the patient group related to their thesis topics.
3   They carry out the care of a patient related to the thesis topic on the basis of a nursing model.
4   They report the patient that they provide car efor as a case study by synthesizing and analyzing the nursing model related to the thesis topic
5   They convey the evidence-based information and care interventions that they learn to the nursing care.
6   They apply the patient and employee safety principles during the clinical practice.
7   They are sensitive towards legal and ethical issues during clinical practice.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Ability to provide preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative care to a patient from the surgical patient group focused on in their thesis and scientific studies. Application of research results and evidence to the care of a patient from the surgical patient group focused on in their thesis and scientific studies. Prof. Fatma Vural Prof. Özlem Bilik
2 Ability to provide preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative care to a patient from the surgical patient group focused on in their thesis and scientific studies. Application of research results and evidence to the care of a patient from the surgical patient group focused on in their thesis and scientific studies. Prof. Fatma Vural Prof. Özlem Bilik
3 Analyzing the care report given to a patient from the surgical patient group on which he/she focused in his/her thesis and scientific studies, based on research results, and discussing it with his/her advisor. Prof. Fatma Vural Prof. Özlem Bilik
4 Analyzing the care report provided to a patient from the surgical patient group on which she focused in her thesis and scientific studies, based on research results, and writing an article as an example of model-based nursing care. Demonstrate developments that will contribute to her thesis and scientific studies through the gains gained after the practice. Prof. Fatma Vural Prof. Özlem Bilik

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

Monitoring and caring for the case in clinical practice
Examining case-related research and evidence
Developing a case-based care plan
Writing a report

Assessment Methods

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


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

The student prepares a comprehensive nursing care plan for the patient they care for, integrating research and evidence for care, and presents the plan as a report. By integrating the acquired information (research results, evidence for practice) with patient data, they prepare an APA-format article on its application in the field of surgical nursing.

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)

Prof. Özlem Bilik Phone: 0232 412 6962 ozlem.bilik@deu.edu.tr
Prof. Fatma Vural Phone: 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)
practice 3 30 90
Weekly pre-course/post-course preparations (reading the course materials, the articles etc.) 3 20 60
Preparation to the final exam 1 43 43
Homeworks 1 30 30
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 225

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10
LO.1555544534
LO.255554454
LO.35555445334
LO.4444544534
LO.5444544534
LO.64444
LO.7444334544

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